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The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 when defeated Germany signed a peace treaty with the French president. -
Hitler was voted to power in 1933, and the newly adopted Enabling Act gave him larger authority. He was appointed and Chancellor of Germany in January of 1933. -
The 1936 Olympics were held by Berlin, and the US considered boycotting because of Hitler's racist beliefs and implements. -
The German military invaded Poland, and Poland fell to them extremely quickly because of a new German shocking tactic. -
The British Expoditiany Force and other allies fought against Germany in the battle of Dunkirk. It is widely considered a failure because of the number of materials left behind for German use. -
Germany, Japan, and Italy signed a pact intended to keep the US out of the conflict -
Block 11 had the first gassings around 1941. In 1944, freight trains brought Jews over from parts of Europe filled with Germans. -
In 1941, the Japanese military dropped a bomb on the USA. -
From 1942 to 1945, people of Japanese descent, including American citizens, were put into internment camps by an order made by President Roosevelt. -
Allied forces came together to assault German-occupied France from air and land. -
Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. Italy surrendered on September 8, 1943. -
An American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days after, a second atomic bomb was dropped on a different Japanese city called Nagasaki. -
The battle of Iwo Jima was started by the US when the island Iwo Jima was invaded. The battle lasted 5 weeks and was one of the bloodiest battles of World War Two.