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The treaty of Versailles was signed for peace and justice between Germany and its allies at the Palace of Versailles in Paris. -
He was elected in Germany and attained power in March of 1933 after Reichstag adopted the enabling act of 1933 -
Between 1933 and 1945, concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the Nazi regime. The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau during these years exceeded 188,000. The number of prisoners who died in the camp and its subcamps between January 1940 and May 1945 was at least 28,000, to which must be added more who died there between 1933 and the end of 1939, as well as an undetermined number of unregistered prisoners. -
As part of an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas (Gleichschaltung), university students in college towns across Germany burned thousands of books they considered to be “un-German,” heralding an era of state censorship and cultural control. Students threw books pillaged mostly from public and university libraries onto bonfires with great ceremony, band-playing, and so-called “fire oaths.” -
This created a defense alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan -
Olympiade) and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. -
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan and was a very sad and deadly bombing to Hawaii. -
The Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps -
The Nazis build gas chambers as an advanced killing method for Jewish people in the spring of 1942 -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. -
Germany surrenders on May 7, 1945, Japan surrenders on September 2, 1945, and Italy surrenders on September 8, 1943. -
Little boy and big boy were dropped on innocent civilians as a sign for Japan to surrender, and many people died from all of the bomb explosions.