Lexi's Chapter 30 WWII

By agraham

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    This was Japan's first attempt to to begin taking over all of East Asia.

  • Hilter Renounces the provsions of the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler decides to begin to violate the Treaty of Versailles

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    This was the result of an ongoing conflict between two rival countries.

  • Germany Reoccupies the Rhineland

    Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and takes back the demilitarized Rhineland

  • Rome-Berlin Axis Pact

    Germany, Italy, and Japan offically became a full military alliance.

  • Spanish Civil War

    This was a war fought between the Conservative group and the authoritarian government. The authoritarians won, ending the war on April, 1st 1939

  • Anschluss in Austria

    This was the annex os Anschluss

  • Munich Agreements

    World powers decide Germany may have Sudetenland

  • Franco becomes dictator of Spain

    He was the leader after the Spanish Civil War.

  • Britian signs a pact with poland

    Agreement of mutal assistance in case of miltary action

  • Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact is signed

    This was signed to prevent war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

  • Germany invades Poland

    Induced France and Britian to engage in war against Germany,

  • Britian and France declare war on Germany

    This was the result of Germany invading Poland

  • Hitler invades France

    Hitler did this to cut off and surrond the Allied Forces that were in Beligum.

  • Battle of Britian

    This was Germany's attempt to gain superiority over the Royal Air Forces. the Battle ended in September 1940.

  • Operation Barbarossa

    This was an attempt for the Axis powers to conquer vast areas in the Soviet Union. The operation ended on december 5th 1941

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japan tried to get the United states not to be involved in Japanese military affairs

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    Major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII. Ended on May 8th 1942

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    This was a German lost agianst the Soviet Union. The Battle ended on feburary 2nd 1943.

  • Allied Victory in Africa

    This was the Axis force in North Africa. They retreated to northern italy after it was unsucessful.

  • Allied conference in Tehran

    This was to open a second front against the Nazi's. Ended on December 1st 1943.

  • D-Day

    Allied forces invade Normandy.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Hitler thought of it as a way to neutralize the Western Front. It ended on Jan, 25 1945 with an Allies victory.

  • Allied conference in Yalta

    It was organized to dicuss european post-war reorganization. The conference ended on Feb 11 1945

  • Germany Surrenders

    Offically the end of WWII in the European theater.

  • Allied conference in Potsdam

    Organized to decide how to punish Nazi Germany. Conference ended on August 2nd 1945.

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    This was a United States attempt to stop war in the Pacific Theater. It is debateable if it was truely sucessful in its objective. Last bomb was dropped on Aug 9th 1945

  • Seperate East German government established

    This new government was given to the communists.