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Adolf Hitler sends his elite SS guards to murder Nazi leaders after fearing the parliament has become too powerful. -
Hitler put hatred on the Jews and planned the act of genocide which got a lot of Jewish people killed. -
Germany tried to attack the Soviet by using the same strategy used on Poland, which was Blitzkrieg (involved fast moving planes and tanks followed by a massive infantry force), but drastically got defeated. -
German went in between the Maginot Line in order to get to France since Hitler's agenda was to conquer. -
Germany and Soviet put their plan (Non-Aggression Act) to action by attacking Poland. -
Hitler tries to expand his community's territory and takes over the Balkans -
The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. -
Winston Churchill becomes a Prime minister after Clement Attlee. -
German started to bomb the Royal Air Force(RAF) and Britain's cities and factories in order to break British's morale. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Sensing weakness, Hitler declares war on America 4 days later. -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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the Axis forces in North Africa, having sustained 40,000 casualties in Tunisia alone, surrendered; 267,000 German and Italian soldiers became prisoners of war. -
The country's imperial overstretch (opening multiple fronts in Africa, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean) ultimately resulted in its defeat in the war, as the Italian empire collapsed after disastrous defeats in the Eastern European and North African campaigns. -
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. -
when German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The battle lasted until January 16, 1945, after the Allied counteroffensive forced German troops to withdraw. -
the Red Army barreled into Berlin and captured the city, the final step in defeating the Third Reich and ending World War II in Europe.
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The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, and ended World War II in Europe; the signing took place at 22:43 CET on 8 May 1945 and the surrender took effect at 23:01 CET on the same day. -
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.