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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. The treaty was one of several that officially ended five years of conflict known as the Great War—World War I. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Adolf Hitler officially became the new chancellor of Germany -
Hitler's Olympics
Olympics held that Hitler had started in Berlin. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany. -
Nazi's established Gas Chambers
Germany decided to make gas chambers in order to kill the captured. -
Tripartite pact signed
It created a defense alliance between the countries Germany, Italy, and Japan and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. -
Italy Surrenders
The government had so called evaporated and they had no choice but to surrender. -
D-Day
American troops stormed the beaches of France to try and get American forces in Europe soil. -
Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler committed suicide after being hunted by Soviet troops and being overwhelmed -
Germany Surrenders
Germany signs an unconditional surrender at the headquarters of US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander of Allied forces in northwest Europe. After this the surrender takes place on May 8th. -
Bombing's of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
They hit them with one so that they would surrender and then it didn't happen, they waited a few days and they still didn't, so they dropped another one. -
Japan Surrenders
Japanese officials signed the Instrument of Surrender.