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Annexation of Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Munich Conference
Munich Conference. Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland was an attack on the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. -
Battle of France
The Battle of France was the German invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands during the Second World War. -
Auschwitz/ Dachau Death Camps
Located in southern Germany, Dachau was initially a camp for political prisoners; however, it eventually evolved into a death camp where countless thousands of Jews died from malnutrition, disease and overwork or were executed. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. -
Bataan Death March
march in the Philippines of some 66 miles that 76,000 prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II. -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Battle of Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. -
The Italian Campaign
The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945. -
D-Day
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
The Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a British-American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Los Alamos New Mexico - Manhattan Project
The Laboratory began in 1943, a few years after the start of World War II, for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb. It took just 27 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively.