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Treaty of Versailles
A peace settlement signed after WWI had ended. It was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris between Germany and the allies and hundreds of people were involved in the process. -
German Anschluss with Austria
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the majority of the German speaking people in Austria wanted to unite with the new German Republic but this wasn't allowed by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Demands for the union (Anschluss) of Austria and Germany increased after Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor. In February, 1938, Hitler invited Kurt von Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, to meet him at Berchtesgarden. Hitler demanded concessions for the Austrian Nazi Party. -
Hitler invades Poland
From the 1st of September till the 6th of October 1938,Germany, alongside the Soviet union, invaded Poland and this marked the start of WWII. Germany invaded Poland from the north, south and west. About 65,000 Polish troops were killed in the fighting, with 420,000 others being captured by the Germans -
Hitler invades czechoslovakia
On the 15th of March, 1939, German troops marched in to Czechoslovakia and took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. This was the end of the appeasement. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
Britain and France had a treaty with Poland so they declared war on Germany when Hitler and his troops provoked britain and France and invaded Poland on September 3rd, 1939. -
Treaty of Munich
The treaty of Munich(Munich agreement) was a 4 way pact signed on September the 29th, 1938 by Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy and gave Germany the rights to the Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland in exchange for Adolf Hitler's promise to not invade any other European lands. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement. toward Germany. -
Dunkirk
Dunkirk, or the Battle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of allied forces during WWII. Around 350 000 British, French and Belgian troops were evacuated and this enabled the Allies to continue the war and it was a major boost to British morale. -
Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was a three-way pact signed by Adolf Hiter(Germany), Galeazzo Ciano(Italy) and Saburō Kurusu(Japan) in Berlin, Germany. The pact established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Hitler attacks Russia-Operation Barbarossa
Germany's invasion on Russia was the largest invasion in the history of warfare.The German invasion of the Soviet Union caused a high rate of fatalities: 95 percent of all German Army casualties that occurred from 1941 to 1944, and 65 percent of all Allied military casualties from the entire war. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was the entry of the U.S into WWII. On the morning of the 7th of December, 1941, the Japanese army conducted a surprise military attack against the U.S Naval base. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II fought 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943 in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union. -
D-Day
D-Day, a military term, also refers to the Normandy landings which were the landing operations of the allied invasion of Normandy in operation overload during WWII. This operation was a successful invasion of Germany-occupied Western Europe. -
The battle of the bulge
The battle of the bulge was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War Two. The battle was a last ditch attempt by Hitler to split the Allies in two in their drive towards Germany and destroy their ability to supply themselves. -
Mussolini captured and executed
While attempting to flee to Switzerland, Benito Mussolini and his mistress were captured by Italian partisans.The next day, on the 28th of April 1946, they were shot dead then taken to Milan where they were hung upside down and displayed publicly. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler commited suicide by gunshot alongside his wife who commited suicide by ingesting cyanide. Reasons being the Russian troops were invading Berlin and if they got their hands on him they would have killed him so he killed himself so he wasnt humiliated. -
Victory in Europe day
A public holiday that officially announced the end of world war 2 in Europe and it marks the formal acceptance by the allies of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The u.s president at the time made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to end the world war as he thought that dropping the bomb would cause less of a loss for Japan than having the u.s army invade. It was dropped at 8:16 am(Japanese time) and killed 80 000 people just from the blast of the bomb, more were injured many and died before the end of the year because of the radiation -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The bomb was dropped at 11:02am,1650 feet above the city and unleashed the equivalent force of 22 000 tons of TNT. This ended up killing 60 000 to 80 000 people and resulted in Japan surrendering. -
Russia declared war on Japan
At the Tehran Conference, Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan once Nazi Germany was defeated. At the Yalta Conference, Stalin agreed to Allied pleas to enter World War II's Pacific Theater within three months of the end of the war in Europe. On July 26, the US, UK and China made the Potsdam Declaration, an ultimatum calling for the Japanese surrender which if ignored would lead to their "prompt and utter destruction". -
Japanese Surrender
After the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, the emperor of Japan announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies. The surrender ceremony was held on September 2nd and aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri, at which officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, thereby ending the hostilities.
