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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide in which over six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. The Jews were systematically murdered. Hitler was successful at killing various ethnic and political groups in Europe.
Jan 30, 1933 – May 8, 1945 -
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP) also known as the Nazi Party assumes control when Germany president Paul Von Hindenburge names Hitler the Chancellor. -
Munich Agreement
The agreement prevented a war from happening but it also gave Czechoslovakia away to the Germans. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
Germany invades neutral Poland and this initiates WWII in Europe between allied forces and axis. This is significant because this is the start of a second world War that will change history. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Axis forces surrender at Tunisia this is significant because it ends the North African campaign. -
Germany Declares war on the US
Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. He brought a country that had remained neutral into conflict. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was an event in which the Japanese forced prisoners of war to walk 60 miles with very harsh conditions. Over 5,000 prisoners lost their lives on this march, as those who could not continue walking were shot by the Japanese. -
Axis forces surrender in Africa
Axis forces surrender at Tunisia this is significant because it ends the North African campaign. -
Battle of Midway
The United States and British Naval Forces stop the advance of Japanese navy at Midway. this is significant because this battle destroyed the Japanese fleet and allowed for the United States to take control of the pacific and begin Island Hopping. -
D-Day
General Dwight Eisenhower led the United States and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east.
Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. -
US Troops land in Philippines
US troops start the major offensive of Island Hopping in the Pacific which begins in the Philippines. This is important because they begin to directly attach Japanese owned Islands -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans attempt to push through the Allied offensive. The attempt failed and the allied kept pushing. Thousands of people died i this battle, it was also the battle in which the U.S lost the most troops in all of World War 2 -
Adolf Hitler commits Suicide
Adolf Hitler took a cyanide capsule and then shot himself, ending his life. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
In order to bring about a quick end to the war the United States dropped its nuclear bombs on the city of Hiroshima, and three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
sig: The dropping of the atomic bombs forced Japan into surrendering, bringing about the end of the war. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender on August 14th, but doesn't officially surrender until this date. This is significant because it ends WWII officially.
