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World War I
Following the victory against Germany in World War I, the Germans are made to pay large reparations to France and Great Britain, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought an official end to the war. The League of Nations was also formed, which was made up of various nation, in order to prevent another World War. However, the United Dtaes stayed out of the League, staying in its role as an isolationist country. -
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The Roaring 20s
World War I was over, and people finally had a chance to relax during the extravagant and flamboyant decade, althoug in Germany, tings were somewhat a different story. Aldolf Hitler camr to power of the National Socialist party in 1921, and he published Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in 1925. On October 24th,1929 also known as Black Tuesday, the Stock Market crashed, sending the world into a Great Depression. -
The 1st concentration camp opens in Germany
Dachau Concentration Camp opens in Southern Germany. It was the first regular concentration camp used by the National Socialist party, to hold "political prisoners". -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a time when the Nazis took the Jews, and others to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, sending them to die, or to work. The Jews were seen as a scapegoat for World War II, and so were sent to these camps as punishment, but also so they could create the perfect Aryan race, in the Nazi's eyes. -
The Rise of Hitler
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, with his plan to do away with politics, and make Germany a unified state, putting himself in almost complete power. -
Nuremberg Race Laws
At the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, the Nazis created new laws that institutionalized many of the racial boundaries that the Nazis believed in. Many laws targeted Jews, making life hard for them and unjust, adding many restrictions, and blaming them for World War I. -
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1935-1936:the Rhineland, Ethiopia, Spain, and the 1936 Summer Olympics
During 13935, Italians under Mussolini, invaded Ethiopia, taking control of it, and used the act of genocide. In 1936, the Germans re-militarized the Rhineland, taking more control of it. The 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, the last games to take place before the war. Although Barcelona, Spain was supposed to host the games, the Spanish Civil War broke out, so the Nazis had the games in Berlin, mainly for propaganda purposes. -
November 9-10: Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass, as it came to be known as, was a night in which the Nazis in Germany set fire to synagogues, vandalized homes and businesses, making life very hard afterwards, for the Jews, and in the morning, many Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. violence against the Jewish people rose, and tensions got higher. -
March 12,1938: The Anschluss
On March 12th, 1938, Nazi Germany form and Anschluss, or alliance with Austria. This was followed by the act of appeasement from the British, involving Czechoslovakia and the Munich Pact, as done by the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Then , the Germans continued to expand, occupying Sudetenland. -
1939: The Pacts
In 1939, two key pacts were made, the "Pact of Steel", between Germany and Italy, which was signed on May 22, 1939; and the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which was signed on August 23, 1939. This pact was later broken up when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. -
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The Battles in Europe
During World War II, there were many battles, some of the more well known ones included, the Battles of; Crete, Anzio, Monte Casino, the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle ofSedan, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of El Alamein, and the Battle of Brody. Also, there was the Second Battle of Kharkov, the battles of Berlin, Kursk, Moscow, D-day, and Stalingrad. Some of these were the worst battles in the war. -
The Start of the War
On September 1st, 1939, the Nazis invade Poland. This is basically the start of the war, as with the aid of the Soviet Union, the Polish surrender after 3 weeks, and then France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. -
September 3rd, 1939
Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, after the deadline for the German troops to withdraw from Poland had ended. -
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The Blitz
For about months, the Germans bombed major cities Great Britain, to lower morale, and to soften up the British, before their planned invasion. It killed about 43,000 civilians, and only began to diminish when Hitler began to focus on Russia. -
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The Evacuation at Dunkirk
From May 26, 1940, to June 3, 1940, there was and evacuation of Allied troops, involving about 300,000 troops, naval vessels, and hundreds of civilian boats. It was considered a miracle. -
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The Battles of the Pacific
In the war with Japan, many of the battles were a part of "island hopping", as the American troops got closer and closer to Japan. Some of these battles inlcudes, the Battles of Singapore, the Java Sea, the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Saipan, and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Also, other battles included the Battles of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa. The dropping of the Atomic bomb on two Japanese cities would then bring an end to the war in the Pacific. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941, Japanese airplanes and submarines, attacked a United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The total number of losses was around 2,403 people, civilians included, about 1,177 were from the USS Arizona. the number of wounded was 1,143 people. the United States declared war on Japan the next day. It truly was "A date that will live in infamy"-FDR -
D-Day
On June 6th, 1944, Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy on the Coast of France. The attack was orchestrated by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and involved the Americans, the British, and other Allied forces. There were over 420,000 Allied and German, losses, wounded, or missing after the battle. -
V-E day (Victory in Europe)
On May 8th, 1945, the Axis powers surrendered to the Allies, ending the war in Europe. This was followed by the Nuremburg Trials, where many high ranking officers, doctors, and other people were put on trial after the war, in a seies of 13 trials, that lasted from 1945 to 1949. -
The Atomic Bomb
On August 6th, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, followed by a second on Nagasaki. This brought a quick end to the war in the Pacific, and the end to World War II. -
V-J day (Victory in Japan)
On September 2, 1945, the formal surrender of the Japanese forces to the Allies took place on USS Missouri, following the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
