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The archduke of Austria and his wife were shot by a group of five Serbians and 1 Bosnian Muslim.
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Austri-Hungary is outraged by the death of the archduke and declares war on Serbia.
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Austria-Hungary, Garmany, and Bulgari defeat Serbia.
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Grigori, a secret member of the Austrian Green Hand is assassinated in St. Petersburg.
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A new British Lieutenant General named Sir Frederick Stanley Maude was given the job to restore Britain's military reputation after they lost Kut.
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Leaders of the German army, Bruno von Mudra and Karl von Einem, attacked the French army after the Spring Offense didn't end the war. This battle was considered the beginning of the end of the first world war.
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The treaty of Versailles is signed. While 27 nations were involved in the signing, Germany, Austria, and Hungary were excluded because they had been defeated. France had lost the most amount of troops, but were adamant about paying reparations. Britain had lost very little and was looking forward to Germany becoming an important trading partner. After the war, America promoted free-trade and created the League of Nations.
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The renewed optimism for America after World War I caused more and more people to invest in the stock market. This eventually led to downfall of the stock market and led to the worldwide Great Depression.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and the Nazi party takes power.
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The Japanese lauched a full-scale invasion on China after they claimed Chinese troops fired at Japanese people in Beijing. The Chinese gained help to fight Japan from Germany, the Soviet Union, and the U.S.
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Hitler invaded Austria to add the country into the third empire of Germany. After Hitler forced the Austrian leader to give up the country, he created a new Nazi government.
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Germany invades Poland with over 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes. After only three weeks of attacking Warsaw, they surrendered and the remaining Polish territories were annexed into Germany. This caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany and officially start Word War II.
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Churchill led Britain during most of the course of World War II and in the aftermath recieved huge praise by the citizens.
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This event became known as the 'Battle of Britain' or 'The Blitz'. Most people in Britain had an air raid shelter that protected them from the blasts.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan signed thetripartite pact that created their alliance and expressed their common goals to expand their territory and overthrow the international peace.
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The Axis Alliance invades Russia with the help of Hungary as the fourth member of the alliance. Germany, The coutries invade with over 4 million troops.
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Previously, the United States was able to stay out of the war, but when japanese planes attacked the U.S. Navy, they joined the Allies.
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The Allied forces agree to coordinate an air attack on Germany with the Eighth Air Force, reducing the urban area of Germany to rubble.
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In response to the attacks on Germany from the Allied powers, Germany used their air force called 'the Luftwaffe' to attack Britain with more air raids.
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The eighth air force attacks a Nazi Germany city and loses seven bombers in the process. The Germans used a new anti-aircraft tactic called 'predicted barrage' where Nazis launched a box of explosives into the air to hit enemy bombers.
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After the succes of the Allies invasion on the coast of Normandy, France, Hitler sent Nazi troops to fight the American army to try and turn the war around in his favor. A week later, the Eighth Air Force sent much needed air support to the battle, and dropped more bombs than any other day during the war.
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The Germans started the year by lauching air raids against Allied airfileds. 450 Allied planes were destroyed, but the Germans lost 237 and 59 of those were commanders.
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The German forces have now been defeated and American and British forces are now trying to prove to Germany that they are barbarians and want Hitler to surrender. Over 900 bombers and 550 fighters were sent to Berlin German and began bombing government centars and railway stations that were filled with civilians.
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American forces take over the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine River that borders Germany.
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American and Soviet troops meet at the Elbe River and plan to attack Hitler's bunker.
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After being told by the commander of the Berlin Defense Area that holding Berlin will soon become impossible, Hitler and his wife went into his private study. His wife was found dead from cyanide poisoning and Hitler had killed himself with his own gun.
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All German forces surrender in Reims, France. Reims was the location of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces during the last two years of the war.
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When the terms of Germany's surrender were concluded, America began preparing new bomber groups to attack Japan. The Air Force then dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. About a week and a half later, Japan surrenders to the Allied forces and World WarII comes to an end.
