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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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Hitler invades the Rhineland (demilitarized western part of Germany)
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Hitler and Mussolini sign the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Hitler annexess Austria
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The Munich Conference allows Hitler to take the Sudetenland
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
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Stalin (USSR) and Hitler (Germany) sign the Non-Agression Pact
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Hitler invades Poland; WWII is declared
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Hitler uses blitzkreig against Demark and Norway
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Battle of Britain begins
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Battle of Britain ends
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor and the US enters the war
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US wins Battle of Coral Sea
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US wins Battle of Midway
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad to the Red Army (Soviets)
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa ALLIED
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Soviets defeat Germans at Battle of Kursk
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Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
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Yalta Conference results in the establishment of the United Nations
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Mussolini killed by Italian partisans
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany Surrenders
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Two atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders
