History

By leahmgrove

  • Japanese Invasion of Manchura

    Japanese Invasion of Manchura
    -Japanese took over the Manchura railway -Japan wanted to extend the Japanese army

  • Hitler made Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler made Chancellor of Germany
    -done to keep Hitler and the Nazi party "in check" -Hitler soon after, took over Germany

  • The Munich Pact

    The Munich Pact
    -Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia, in which German people lived -Britain and France believed that by handing Sudentenland back to Germany was the only way to save us from another war

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    -Nazis vandalized schools, homes and also took about 30,000 jewish men to concentration camps -beginning of Holocaust

  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    -Germany, Soviet Union, and Slovak invaded Poland -signifies the beginning of World War II

  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk
    -evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk -gave civilians in allied countries something to be proud of, since 300,000 allied soldiers were rescued

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    -Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, the naval base in Hawaii -led to the U.S. entering war

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    -surender of the Bataan Peninsula on the Philippine Island of Luxon to the Japanese -this march made the Americans more motivated to fight back for all the Americans we had lost

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    -U.S. Navy defeated an attack on the Imperial Japanese Navy -it changed the way wars were fought at sea, it also stopped Japanese advancement

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    -Americans and Great Britain did the first ever major military attack on the coast of France -major turning point, marked the beginning on the end of Hitler's reign

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    -major German offensive campaign launched in Europe -Hitler's plan to destabalize the allies and take control of the part of Antwerp

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    -meeting to plan the final stages of WWII -set the division of Europe

  • V E Day

    V E Day
    -official announcement of the end of World War II -war is now over

  • The Bombing of Hiroshima

    The Bombing of Hiroshima
    -the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb -scared Japan into surrendering, showed the damage we could do

  • V J Day

    V J Day
    -victory over Japan for the allies -ended World War II