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The Treaty of Versailles punished Germany harshly; their economy collapsed, the government lost power, the military was weak, and the Germans were angry. Because of this, Germans became loyal to Hitler and caused WWII, wanting revenge. -
Hitler rose to power in 1933 following the death of President von Hindenburg. Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and became Führer; making him the sole leader of Germany. -
The Munich Pact gave Hitler the Sudetenland and Hitler promised not to take any more territory. Czechoslovakia, pressured by Britain and France, agreed to the terms -
Germany -Hitler- and the Soviet Union -Stalin- signed a non-aggression pact. In the pact, the countries agreed that they would not attack each other and would divide the country Poland between themselves. -
Germany attacked Poland with planes, tanks, ships and 2 million soldiers. Hitler used the Blitzkrieg strategy, also known as lightning war, to surprise Poland. -
Operation Dynamo, known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the World War II from the beaches of Dunkirk, in France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. -
The German Luftwaffe began bombing British ships off the British coast. -
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu, in front of Adolf Hitler. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. -
D-Day brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. -
On December 1944, the Germans made their last offensive attack against the Allies; the Germans cut through the centre of American forces creating a bulge in the Allied lines. -
Germany was divided into four. It was split into zones by France, the U.S., Great Britain, and the USSR and was decided in the Yalta Conference on February 4-11, 945. -
In April 1945, Mussolini, dictator of Italy, and his mistress Clara Petacci wanted to leave to Switzerland, but were captured by Italian communist partisans and executed by firing squad near Lake Como. -
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place on August 6, 1945, and August 9, 1945. The United States launched attacks on Japan forcing them to submit. -
On September 2, 1945, the proper surrender documents of Japan were signed aboard the USS Missouri, giving the day as the official Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day). -
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and atrocities against Jews in World War II in Nov. 20, 1945 - Oct 1, 1946