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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.The treaty forced Germany to disarm, make substantial territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers -
Hitler and the Treaty of Versailles
In the 1930s Hitler and the Nazis gained support as they promised to reverse the treaty. In the 1930s when the Nazis were in power, Hitler set about reversing these terms. Britain believed that Hitler should be allowed to do this. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's army and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. I would consider this a point in which the world saw what Hitler was capable of. The Holocaust ended on May 8, 1945. -
Germany's invention of Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defence by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them. -
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided in two: a "Republican" or "Loyalist" Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic, and a "Nationalist" Spain under the insurgent generals, and, eventually, under the leadership of General Francisco Franco. -
Invasion of Poland
Also known as the September Campaign, was a joint invasion on poland by Germany, Danzig, and the Soviet Union. This would be the beginning of World War 2 in Europe. -
Roosevelt lends arms to Great Britain
Roosevelt and the so-called "internationalists" claimed that a program of aid to Great Britain and other countries fighting against Germany would make actual U.S. participation in the war unnecessary. On the other side stood those who were called "isolationists," who believed that the president's policies were making it increasingly likely that the country would end up in another disastrous foreign war. -
Mass hiring of workers for factories to produce weapons, ammunition, and machinery.
War production profoundly changed American industry. Companies already engaged in defense work expanded. Others, like the automobile industry, were transformed completely. In 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States. Only 139 more were made during the entire war. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the UK. -
Pact of Berlin between Japan and Germany
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Saburō Kurusu and Galeazzo Ciano. It was a defensive military alliance that was eventually joined by Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, as well as by the German client state of Slovakia. -
Soviet Union turns to United States for help after being invaded by Germany.
The alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II developed out of necessity, and out of a shared realization that each country needed the other to defeat one of the most dangerous and destructive forces of the twentieth century.Ideological differences were subordinated, albeit temporarily,to the common goal of defeating fascism.As a result of this cooperation, the groundwork for a new international system was laid, out of which came the United Nations organization. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Roosevelt asks for declaration of war after Pearl Harbor attack
Franklin Roosevelt gave one of his most famous speeches to Congress on December 8, 1941 when he asked Congress to declare war on Japan. After the first draft of the speech was written, FDR made handwritten changes and used that text as his final speech. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific. Between the 4th and 7th of June, both American and Japanese ships battled for days ending in a U.S victory. It has been called "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad during WW2. They held their ground against the advance of German troops. This battle ended on Feb 2, 1943. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50 mile stretch of French coastline to fight Germany. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion. By the end of the battle more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Hitler commits suicide
On April 30, 1945, the dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler, took his life in an underground bunker. This was the end of Nazi Germany and soon the end of The Holocaust. -
Germany's Surrender
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims,France. This took effect the next day, ending the European conflict of WW2. -
VE-Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WW2 of Germany's surrender. -
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6th, 1945, Americans dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more would die later on due to radiation exposure. Three days later, Americans dropped another bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Soon after Japan declared their surrender.
