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Night of the Long Knives
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm. -
Japan invades Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident -
Final Solution
Nazis planned to exterminate all jews -
Italy invades Ethiopia
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia -
Italy invades Ethiopia
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia -
D-Day
the day that the Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Anschluss
annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Anschluss
refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Appeasement (Chamberlain)
the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -
Non Aggression Pact
treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
France surrenders to Germany
France Surrenders to Nazi Germany, the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe. -
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. -
Battle of Britain
the Luftwaffe made their first bomber attack on British ships in the Channel. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. -
Battle of Midway
was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Battle of Midway
was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Battle of the Bulge
An unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. The last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War Il -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its satellite camps, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. -
V-E Day
Is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
V-J Day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II
