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Germany invades Poland to get more land. The Polish army was defeated within a month.
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Britain and France declared war on Germany because they had a treaty with Poland in which they had to help Poland if they attack
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The Munich Pact was an agreement allowing the Nazi German to take Czechoslovakia's, Sudetenland.The agreement was held at a conference in Munich, Germany
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Germany invaded Belgium for a second time. The Germans attack both the Netherlands and Belgium at the same time.
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The battle of France was also known as "The Fall or France". It was a successful invasion of France and the Low Countries.
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They were major raids that dropped more then 100 tons of high explosives on 16 British cities over a period of 267 days. The Germans couldn't really drop it during the day, they would just be shot down with Anti-Aircraft turrets. So they dropped them at night but couldn't see where they were hitting because the people would keep all the lights off at night
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A law that started a program which the United States of America supplied the Non Aggression countries with supplies or materiel
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"Operation Barbarossa" was nicknamed for this operation.The Soviet Union was neutral in the war. Then Hitler sent his troops to attack USSR, and the Soviet Union joined with the Allied Powers after.
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Japan had a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the morning against the United States naval base in Hawaii. This was the cause of the United Sates joining the war with the Allied Powers.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment camps with Executive Order 9066. It was the removal of the Japanese-Americans in the west to prisons after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. About 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the west coast was sent to one of the camps.
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A secret government research and development project that created the first atomic bombs. It took about 3 years to make and was lead by physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Major General Leslie Groves oversaw the project.
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It was the most important naval battle in World War 2. It was a turning point for the in the war after they defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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The battle started on August 23, 1942. This was a major battle of World War 2 in which the Nazi's where fighting the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad. Nazi's surrenders because they were dying at a rapid pace during the winter. They were not prepared for the harsh weather.
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An allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. The term D-Day was used for the day of the actual landing. This was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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US marines invaded the island of Iwo Jima. The United States plan was to take over the island. 5 days later after they started fighting they raised of the U.S. flag on top of the Mount Suribachi by five U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy battlefield Hospital Corpsman. There was actually 2 flag rasing and both of them were on the same day. The battle lasted till March 26, 1945.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt died after months of poor health and Harry S. Truman was sworn in as President. The U.S. successfully finished World War 2 under Truman.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide by gunshot. Later that day his wife Eva Braun also committed suicide by ingesting cyanide.
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The Atomic Bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan by the United States. The bombs were dropped by a B-29 Bomber. The Japanese did not surrender after the first bomb, so 3 days later the United States dropped another bomb. These 2 events were the only use of nuclear weapons in war to this day.
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The day which Japan surrendered, ending World War 2. The papers were signed on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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This marks the date when the World War 2 Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender by Germany.
