The 1900s

By yr8

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

  • Spanish Civil War

    This war was a conflict in which the Nationalists defeated the republicans of the Second Spanish Republic. The war lasted between July 17,1936 through April 1,1939.

  • Rape of Nanjing in China

  • German annexation of the Sudetenland

  • German Invasion of Poland

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • Pearl Harbor

    In the summer of 1941 the United States began an oil embargo against Japan. After this, Japan was planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Two US battlaships sunk, but it did not damage Pearl Harbor's usefulness as a naval base.

  • El-Alamein

  • Guadalcanal

    Was fought in the pacific theater of WW2. It was the first major offensive launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

  • Stalingrad

  • D-Day

  • Philippines (Battle of Manilan)

  • Yalta Conference

    This was the wartime meeting between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The meeting resolved issues against the powers.

  • The end of the war in Europe

  • Dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • Dropping of atomic bomb on Nagasaki

  • The end of the war in Asia

  • Nuremberg Trails