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Treaty of Versailles signed
Lloyd George of England, Orlando od Italy, and Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of U.S discussed how Germany should pay for the damage for the WWI had caused.
Main Terms:
War Guilt Clause: Germany should accept the blame for WWI.
Reperations: Germany had to pay 6,600 million Euro for the damage caused by the war.
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WWII
From Hitler's triumph to Hitler's Suicide -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
That evening Hitler looked out from his balcony at the Chancellery. Below him filed passed thousands of torchbearing Nazis. This was their moment of triumph, the day of national exultation; the Nazi era had begun and their mood was jubilant -
Hitler enters Rhineland
Hitler ordered troops to enter Rhineland. At this point the German army was not very strong and could have been easily defeated. Yet neither France nor Britain were prepared to start another war. -
Rome-Berlin Anti-Comiterm
Hitler made two important aliliances; Rome-Berlin Axis Pact allied with Mussolini's Italy. Anti-Contern Pact allied with Japan. -
Battle of Britain
After France was occupied, Britain stood alone against the Axis Powers. Hitler decided to launch an invasion of Britain in June 1940. German bombers flew across the channel and dropped bombs on London and other large cities. British RAF planes defeated the German air force and Hitler was forced to call off the invasion. -
Operation of Barbarossa
Hitler sent 3 million sildeiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed the Treaty of Germany in 1939. Many Russian cities fell to Germany but Hitler had not expected the conquest of Russia to last into winter. -
Japan Attackes Pearl- Harbour
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed. -
Battle of Hong Kong
The Battle of Hong Kong took place during the Pacific campaign of World War II. It began on 8 December 1941 and ended on 25 December 1941 with Hong Kong, then a Crown colony, surrendering to the Empire of Japan -
Battle of Midway
After the attack on Peral Harbour, the USA declared war on Japan. On December 11 1941, Germany and Italy declared war to the USA. the Japanese won a string of victories over the USA for the next 6 months. in June 1942 however, the USA defeated the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. Following this victory, USA navy was able to push the Japanses back. -
Dieppe
In the spring of 1942, the Allies planned a large raid on German occupied territory to take place during the first week of July 1942. Originally code-named "Operation Rutter," the objective was the French port of Dieppe. -
Battle of Stalingrad
German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, advanced on the city of Stalingrad. His primary task was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus and to do this, Paulus was ordered by Hitler to take Stalingrad. The Germans final target was to have been Baku. -
Italian Campaign
The Italian Campaign of World War Two began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and ended, for Canada, in February 1945 when the 1st Canadian Division was redeployed from Italy to the Western Front to assist with the advance across Western Europe to Germany. -
D-Day
On 6 June 1944, just after midnight, the Allied assault upon Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe’ began. The operation caught the German military high command unaware. Low tides and bad weather – combined with Allied deception plans – had convinced the Germans that an attack was unlikely at that time. -
Liberation of Holland
American troops entered Maastricht on 13 September 1944; British troops also played a major part in liberating southern Holland, along their axis of advance toward Berlin. The failure of an airborne assault on Arnhem (September 17) prevented the liberation of the rest of Holland in 1944 -
Hitler Commits Suicide
He killed himself with a gun, his wife, Eva Hitler, commited suicide with him. -
VE Day
Victory Europe Day. a couple days later after Japan surrenders, Everyone started to celebrate on May 7 1945. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Negasaki
United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki. -
Japan surrenders - End Of War!!!
A long six years of war, on September 2 1945, Japan surrendered bringing the WWII to an end!
