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Invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931. The League of Nations responded to Japan's invasion of Manchuria by setting up the Lytton Commission to investigate the Japanese invasion of Manchuria -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Hitler attained power in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month, giving expanded authority. President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections. -
Invasion of Ethiopia
Ethiopia was one of the two independent african nation states. This all changed on October 3, 1935, when Benito Mussolini. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. Jews were usually blamed for causing WWII. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. This averted the outcome of a war. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov -
Non-Aggression Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a ten-year non aggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each signatory promised not to attack the other. -
Invasion of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War Dunkirk is a coastal city in northern France. The Dunkirk 1940 Museum documents Operation Dynamo, the WWII evacuation of Allied soldiers from the city's beaches. -
Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It is said that this is the first significant military campaign fought in the air. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the U.S. Pearl Harbor was based in Honolulu, Hawaii. This will call the U.S to declare war on Japan. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place in April of 1942 during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S Navy defeated the Japanese attack. -
Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of this city. It was a very bad defeat for the Germany army, and they would never recover from it. -
D-Day
The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. It is one of the largest seaborne invasions in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. This was a last ditch effort from the Germans. Due to this, they would have not been able to launch other offensive after the Battle of the Bulge. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945. The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East. Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East. Okinawa was captured. -
V-E Day
V-E Day, or just Victory in Europe Day, is the day named after the celebration of Nazi Germany's surrender. This ended WWII in Europe. -
Atomic Bombings of Japan
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. Many Japanese people just died from the explosion or radiation poisoning -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
