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Hitler Became the Chancelor of Germany
While he was inprisoned Hitler became a national figure in Germany. He wrote Mein Kampf, which explained his viewpoints and how he planned to get Germany Out of the deppression. When he was released, Hitler became the Chancelor of Germany by popular vote. -
Germany Signes a Non Agression Pact with Russia
Hitler was worrie that the Soviet Union would fight against Nazi Germany and he was already concerned with the other three powers (France, the UK, and The United States). He made this pact so he would not have to battle all four at one time. HItler would eventyually violate this pact and invade the Soviet Union. -
Germany attacks Belgium/France
This advandement gives Germany territoy next to France, their next target. France prepares for theinevitable attack by constructing a series of forts known as the Maginot Line. Hoever, these fortifications were not an obstical for the Germans. They ended up attaking France through the Ardennes River. Germany ripped through France and made their way to the Engilsh Chanel. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was the US Navy's main Pacific Base. Japan hoped that by attacking this US base, they would prevent the US from influencing Japan's war effort in southeast Asia. Japan was planning to attack all the ships and the airfeild in the first attack. They then would finish off whatever was left in the second attack. This did not work, however, because most of our ships were out on patrol and not on the harbor. The US got angry and entered World War Two, so they could get back at Japan. -
Battle of Midway
Midway was an American naval base in the centural Pacific vital to the defence of Hawii. Loosing Midway would force American defences back to the California Coast. Admral Chester Nimitz knew the Japanese plans for Midway and concentrated his forces there. The US delt the Japanese a dcisive defeat, and sank 4 Aircraft carriers, and 250 planes. This was the most important naval battle of World War Two because the US went on the defencive side in Guadalecanal and the sulomom Islands. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler decided to attack The Soviet Union, betraying the non aggression pact he mode with them. The German troops focused their efforts on taking over Stalingrad because of the oil feilds, As the battle dragged on, it became winter. The Germans were not prepared to fight in the winter, so they were not prepared. Eventhough his troops were freeing to death, Hitler refused to let them surrender. Ignoring his orders, the Germans surrendered in January of 1943 and only 50,000 men would return home. -
Allies Capture Sicily
Eisenhowe leads the Allied troops into Sicily and captures it in 38 days. The Allies now have control of the Meditranian, which leads to the invasion of Italy and the surrender of Mussolini and Italy in September of 1943. Hirler rescued Mussolini from a mountain fortress and indtalied noom as te leader of a puppet state in Northern Italy. -
D-Day
The allies planned on storming the beaces, Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Soldiers would get off landing crafts and storm the beaches, but sometimes they would be let out to early and drownd because of all the equipment they had to carry. The ones that landed safely, would step out into a rainstorm of bullets, shells, and death. One writer called D-Day "the longest day" but for many it was a very short day and their last on earth. By the end of the day, the Allies had a foothold in France. -
The Yalta Confrence
The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4-11, 1945, during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
The US dropped the Atomic Bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy". The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet. The mushroom cloud produced wasestimated to have reached a height of 40,000 feet.Two-thirds of Hiroshima was destroyed. Within three miles of the explosion, 60,000 of the 90,000 buildings were demolished. Clay roof tiles had melted together. This signified the end of World War Two.
