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The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
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Germany took control of Austria. This event caused Hitler to violate the Treaty of Versailles.
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This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.”
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The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland.
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Was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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Before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain during the Second World War.
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Established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan.
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A surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States.
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Was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war.
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Was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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Celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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On the day of the bombing, an estimated 263,000 were in Nagasaki, including 240,000 Japanese residents, and 9,000 Japanese soldiers.
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The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people.
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It had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc
