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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Versailles was one of the most controversial treaties in history. It made Germany and Central Powers have to take the blame for World War I. It also caused loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and many payments that needed to be made. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler came to power after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 granting the power of chancellor. Following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
Hitler's Olympics
Nazi's used this for propaganda purposes, used to show Germanys new, united, and strong country. Still, the boycott campaign failed to convince countries to keep their teams home -
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people. -
German invasion of Poland
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. The Germans broke through the border and then went toward the capital. -
Tripartite pact signed
This was an agreement signed by Germany, Italy, Japan one year after the start of World War II. This created a defense alliance and was to deter the United States. -
Nazi's establish gas chambers a Auschwitz
These gas chambers had been used secretly to kill several hundred people at a time. Hitler used this and the first group of prisoners was selected and killed in a gas chamber outside the camp. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is where the unprovoked aerial attack happened by the Japanese. The United States then declared war on the Japanese, the US, therefore, entering WWII. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Rosevelt thought that the Japanese- Americans could have been potential spies because they come from a Japanese background and/or have ancestry. The camps were surrounded by barbed-wire fences patrolled by armed guards who had instructions to shoot anyone who tried to leave. -
D-day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
Iwo Jima
One of the most bloody battles, now the Army Air Forces are able to make bombing runs without a Japanese garrison. After the battle, Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen. -
Hitlers Death
Hitler's death was great news to most, he was responsible for over 50 million deaths and was the reason WWII even started. He committed suicide after being hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin. -
Axis powers surrender
While all surrendering at different times Japan was the last to surrender to the following countries that are Germany and Italy. The reason for the final surrender was because of the bombs, so Japan finally surrendered the year of 1945.
