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Japanese invade Manchuria and set up a puppet state
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Hitler is appointed chancellor, and he takes complete control over Germany, his enemies failing to unite against him
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Series of acts designed to keep US out of war
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Conservative nationalists and republicans of Spain have a war, nationalists win
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Japanese attempt to invade China, they take over Shanghai but the Chinese government relocates to Chongqing to continue their resistance
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Hitler already had the Sudatenland from Britain and France's appeasement, but later he took over the entire country, to "help the ethnic Germans living in the area"
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Britain and France agree to give Hitler the Sudatenland in an attempt to appease his territorial conquests
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Hitler and Stalin share Poland and remain neutral to each other
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Germany and the USSR take over Poland, getting Britain and France involved, and starting World War 2
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Germany launches a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway, capturing them both with minimal resistance
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Hitler and Italy take over France, set up a Nazi controlled puppet government
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Air and sea battles between Germany and Britain
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US lends weapons and vehicles to vital allies
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US and Britain pledge collective security, disarmament, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas.
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Soviets wipe out the invading Germans, and begin to move towards Germany. Turning point in the war
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US is attacked by Japan, gets us involved in WW2
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First American air raid on Japanese soil, provided a boost of morale knowing that we could attack them
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Japanese attempted to take the Midway Atoll, but US forces were able to decipher their plans and set up defensive structures. Considered the most important battle of the Pacific war, this was the turning point from which Japan started losing
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US manages to outproduce Germany in naval warfare and then sets up secure Allied trade routes
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Created a second front in North Africa to divert troops from the Soviets
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Allies capture Sicily, Mussolini is stripped of power
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Paratroopers land begind enemy lines, followed by thousands upon thousands of soldiers attacking the beaches of France
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French resistance fighters and Allied troops take back Paris from control of the Nazis
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Germans attempt to stop Allied supply lines, they get pushed back and have to surrender
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Part of US strategy to isolate Japan from the islands it took over, considered one of the largest Naval battles of all time
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Wartime meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
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US invasion of the island Iwo Jima, we needed air fields to launch our atomic bombs from. Japanese forces were heavily entrenched, and they never surrendered
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Allied troops take over the island of Okinawa to use as a base to launch air operations on Japan
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The second of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, convinces them to surrender
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FDR dies of a stroke, Truman is the new president
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War in Europe is officially over
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The first of two atomic bombings in Japan in an attempt to make them surrender, first time anyone witnesses such a deadly weapon
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War in the Pacific is officially over
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The trials in which war criminals were judged
