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Hitler comes to power
Adolf Hitler comes to power and starts to rebuild Germany Military while gaining land for Germany. -
Nonaggression pact
Germany and Soviet Union agree to nonagression act which permits Germany to invade poland as long as Germany gives Soviet Union part of poland. started world war 2 -
Germany invades poland
Germany invades Poland. when germany invaded poland it started world war 2 -
war Declared on Germany
after Germany invaded Poland Great Brition declared war on germany with France also declaring war on Germany begining world war 2 -
President Rosavelt helping the Allies
President Frankling Rosavelt makes a deal to give Great Brition 50 destoryer ships in exchange for naval bases. this help the US and showed we were leaning toward the allied powers. -
Lend-lease program
the US delivers weapons to great Brition that are going to be paid for after the war showing once again that we are favoring the Allied side and not reamianing completely neutra.l -
Germany invades Soviet Union
Germany starts to invade the Soviet Union. this breaking the nonagression pact causes the Soviet union to join the Allied powers. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl harbor in Hawaii in attempt to criple the united states and keep them out of the war. But because they did not destroy enough of our navy we joined the war. -
US joins the war
Germany, Italy and Japan declare war on the US so the US declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan. -
Battle of midway
The battle of midway was another attempt by the japanese to get the US to give up the pacific but ultimitly failed because of american code breakers who were able to figure out the date and location of attack so that US could ambush the Japanese. -
D-day
Allied invasion of Normandy. One of the largest military assaults in history. This invasion pushed Germany out of France. -
Adolf Hitler's suicide
Hitler committed suicide after many defeats on Germany because he did not want the shame a day later Germany surrenders. -
First atomic bomb
US drops first atomic Bomb on Japan killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of people but Japan will not surrender -
Second Atomic Bomb
three days after we dropped the first atomic bomb we dropped a second one crippling Japan and its people to a point where they surrendered -
World War 2 Ends
on september second 1945 world war 2 ended . Ending the most destructive war in history
