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Mein Kampf Published
On this day in 1925, Volume One of Adolf Hitler’s philosophical autobiography, Mein Kampf, is published. Hitler was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment (he would serve only nine months) -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
When Adolf Hitler walked into the presidential office of Paul Von Hindenburg to become chancellor -
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The Holocaust
Systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies -
Rape of Nanjing
The Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing, alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews -
Hilter Invades Poland
German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II -
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World War 2
World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. -
German Blitzkrieg Attacks
Blitzkrieg is a term used to describe a method of offensive warfare designed to strike a swift, focused blow at an enemy using mobile, maneuverable forces, including armored tanks and air support -
Tuskegee Airmen
he Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu -
Navajo Code Talkers
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in their standard communications units of the Pacific theater. -
Executive Order 9066
The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation. In an atmosphere of World War II hysteria, President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942 U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II -
Invasion oF Normandy
The epic Allied invasion was among the largest military operations ever ... Canadian troops stormed 50 miles of Normandy's fiercely defended -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
VJ/VP Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, .... The date is described as "V-J Day" or "V-P Day" in newspapers in the United States -
Liberation Of Concentration Camps
Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz—the largest killing center and concentration camp complex—in January 1945. -
Victory in Europe
Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine -
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States. -
Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949
