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In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929
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January 30th 1933 marked the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic
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A huge attack on Jews throughout the German Reich
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Out of the blue, on 23 August 1939, Hitler made the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin - a promise not to go to war with each other and (secretly) a promise to invade Poland and split it between them.
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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion
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the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force
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It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945
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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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Nagasaki suffered the same fate as Hiroshima in August 1945. The bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations
