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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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Germany invaded Poland with a Blitzkrieg style of attack. They sent planes in to bomb then the tanks and lastly ground troops. Hitler did this because he knew France and Germany would declare war on Germany because of this.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany becuase they are allies with Poland
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Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor so it would pull America into the war. America had control of the Phillipeans and Japan wanted it for themselves. They thought it would be easier to attack the major part of our navy so it would be easier to attack the Phillipeans.
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.
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Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
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The British bomb Köln (Cologne), bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble.
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British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.
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The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops, enter the French capital. By September, the Allies reach the German border; by December, virtually all of France, most of Belgium, and part of the southern Netherlands are liberated.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
