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U.S. enters the war
When the U.S. entered the war they joined there allies Britain, France, and Russia to fight in World War I. General John J. Pershing was in command over more than 2 million U.S. soldiers that fought on the battlefields in France. Many of the Americans weren't in favor of the U.S. entering the war. -
Germany opens Dachau concentration camp
This was the first concentration camp that opened a little while after Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany. It was located in the south part of Germany. This concentration camp usually housed prisoners. But later on it started to become a death camp where thousands of Jews started dying of malnutrition, disease, overworked, or they were executed. -
Mussolini's Italian Forces take Ethiopia
It was an armed conflict which resulted in a disliking to the Italian rule. -
German troops occupy Rhineland
Hitler denounced the Locarno pact. Instead of that he began to remilitarizing Rhineland. Two years of that the Nazi Germany exploded out of there territories. -
Nazi's Take Czechoslavakia
Hitler, Mussolini,French Premier Edouard Daladier,and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact on September 30,1938, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia.On March 14,1939, Slovakia declared its “independence”,knowing that there was a threat of invasion to destroy all debate within the Czech province.On March 15,1939, during the meeting with the Czech President Emil Hacha which was a leader that was known to be weak, and senile. -
Nazi's invade poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. -
German Blitzkreig overwhelms Belguim, Holland, and France
Lightning war is a military tactic that was designed to create disorganization among enemy forces. The German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland before they successfully employed the tactic invasions of Belgium,the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa
Hitler sent his army east into a massive Soviet Union invasion. This invasion which covered the North Cape to the Black Sea which was a distance of two thousand miles. Barbarossa was a crucial turning point of World War II. It was a forced failure on the Nazi German's. It was a fight of two-front wars against superior resources. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at pearl Harbor located by Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack lasted for two hours, but it was very devastating. The Japanese managed to destroy 20 american naval vessels, which include 8 enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. Over 2,000 American soldiers and sailors diedin this attack and another 1,000 were wounded. A day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the Congress to declare a war on Japan. -
Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins
In this mass murder killed 960,00 Jews killed. And the were also victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma, and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Then you had 10,000 to 15,000 killed from other nationalities. -
US cracks Japanese codes
Overtime Francis A. Raven discovered a pattern usind the Japanese. He noticed that each month was brocken down into three ten day segments. And thde US used the Purple chipher was effectivey brocken the codes and exposed the Japanese secrets. -
Singapore falls to the Japanese
The occupations of Singapore in World War II took place from 1942 to 1945. It was a fall of the British colony. The military forces of the Japanese Empire which was occupied after defeating the British, Indian, Australian, and Malayan garrison in the Battle of Singapore -
American naval victory at Battle of Midway
It was only six months after Japans attack of Pearl Harbor, then one month after the battle of the Coral Sea. The United States Navy under Adminrals. Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated attacking a fleet of Japanese Navy. -
Surrender at Stalingrad
On this certain day the remaining German forces desided to surrender not regarding Hitler's sooner declaration of "surrendering is out of the question." The troops may defend themselves at there own will. -
Normandy Invasion
Western Allies of World War II which launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France. -
Paris is liberated
On June 14,1940 Paris fell to Germany one month after German Wehrmacht barraged into France. Then eight days later France signed the treaty of armistice with the Germans. -
Big three in Potsdam
The Soviet Union leaders Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Harry Truman. They met in Potsdam, Germany for the time period of July 17 to August 2, 1945. They finally negotiated the terms from the end of WWII -
Hiroshema
The US got the consent from the UK when laid down in the Quebec Agreement . When nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Nagasaki
The US got the consent from the UK when laid down in the Quebec Agreement . When nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
