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Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
France and England, presented a bill to Germany demanding payment for damages caused in the war which Germany had started. The German currency, the mark, slipped drastically in value. Hitler and the Nazis hatched a plot in which they would kidnap the leaders of the Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader. It ultimately failed. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Germany was a nation that in its history had little experience or interest in democracy. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler took the reins of a 14-year-old German democratic republic which in the minds of many had long outlived its usefulness. By this time, the economic pressures of the Great Depression combined with the indecisive, self-serving nature of its elected politicians had brought government in Germany to a complete standstill. -
Treaty of Versailles
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription. -
Gestapo
The German Gestapo is placed above the law. -
Britans Apepasment
British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich. -
The Start of the Second World War
World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland with a three-front Blitzkrieg. They attack the Polish army with forces of 1.5 million troops backed by tactical aircraft in the sky and mobile armor on the ground. -
The Pearl Harbor Bombing
Washington D.C. - The last part of the Japanese message, stating that diplomatic relations with the U.S. are to be broken off, reaches Washington in the morning. About an hour later, another Japanese message is intercepted. It instructs the Japanese embassy to deliver the main message to the Americans at 1 p.m. The Americans realize this time corresponds with early morning time in Pearl Harbor Delays prevent the alert from arriving at headquarters in Oahu four hours after the attack. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord. The assault was conducted in two phases: an air assault landing of 24,000 American, British, Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France. -
Victory in Europe
The World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. -
Victory over Japan
The allies won over the Japenese and they surrendered at the end of World War II.
