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In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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These laws, on which the rest of Nazi racial policy hung, were written hastily.
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Italo-Ethiopian War, (1935–36), an armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia’s subjection to Italian rule.
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Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement concluded first between Germany and Japan (Nov. 25, 1936) and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan (Nov. 6, 1937), ostensibly directed against the Communist International but, by implication, specifically against the Soviet Union.
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On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia and established a protectorate over Slovakia.
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On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact.
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At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with the German-controlled territory.
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1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany. Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago.
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The Battle of the Atlantic, from 1939 to 1945, was the longest continuous battle of the Second World War.
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With the full fury of the blitzkrieg— lightning war—the German armored (Panzer) divisions destroyed Polish defenses in the west.
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On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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On 24 February 1942, the federal Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King issued Order-in-Council P.C. 1486 to remove and detain “any and all persons” from any “protective area” in the country.
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The First Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied forces of the Eighth Army.
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The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
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The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter during planning stages, and by its final official code-name Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War.
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The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.
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The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.
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June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.
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On this day in History, Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims on May 07, 1945.
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President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon to be used to bring the war to a speedy end.
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On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.
