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Invasion on Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden incident. Japan invaded Manchuria for their natural resources since Japan had very little natural resources. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler obtained his power later on in March 1933. President Von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor. -
Invasion of Ethiopia
Ethiopia was one of the only two independent African Nations at the time. Ethiopia was invaded by Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. -
Munich Conference
A conference held in Munich during which the leaders of Great Britain, France and Italy had agreed to let Germany capture certain areas of Czechoslovakia. Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was also called the Night of broken glass. This was a Pogorm against the Jews carried out by SA military forces in Germany. Many Jews were captured and beaten and even killed that night. -
Non-Aggression Pact
Non-Aggression Pact or Neutrality pact is a treaty between two or more countries or states that includes a promise not to engage in Military action against each other. This treaty was used between Germany and the Soviet Union. -
Invasion of Poland
Germany Invaded Poland. This caused Britian and France to declare war on Germany. Hitler had broken the non-aggression pact and sparked a war. -
Invasion of France
Invasion of France was also known as the fall of France was when the Germans invaded France. Earlier France had decalred war on Germany after the invasion of Poland. -
Battle of Britain
The 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. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was where Germany fought the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad. This is one of the bloodiest battles in the history warfare with 2 million casualties. -
Normandy Invasion (D-day)
The Normandy Invasion or the D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy. Also called operation Overlord. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The Germans attempted to push the Allied front line west but failed. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
In 1945, US forces bounded forward in the central Pacific as combat reached ever bloodier crescendos. ... On Iwo Jima, Marines achieved a costly victory as they grappled with tenacious Japanese defenders dug into the island's volcanic terrain. -
V-E Day
V-E Day marks the day of the Allied victory in Europe. Nazi Germany surrendered on this day -
Atomic Bombings of Japan
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
