World War II

Japan Invades Manchuria

Aug 8, 1931

Japan invades China

Jan 3, 1932

Mussolini invades Ethiopia

May 9, 1936

Germany announces ‘Anschluss’ with Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Auschluss was a union between Germany and Austria was created

Kristallnacht begins

Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht is when the Nazi's burned and destroyed all Jewish buildings and killed just about 100 people (Jews)

Czechoslovakia taken by Nazi's as appeasement

Mar 15, 1939

Britain and France gave the Nazi's what they wanted known as appeasement

Nazis and Soviets sign non aggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Britain declares war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

May 10, 1940

Battle of Britain begins

Jul 10, 1940

Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

Sep 27, 1940

Germany attacks Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

Nazi’s first experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

Sep 3, 1941

Auschwitz was a huge nazi concentration camp

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Germany declares war on the U.S.

Dec 11, 1941

Battle of Midway in the Pacific

Jun 4, 1942

D-Day (Operation Overlord) invasion of Normandy by allies

Jun 6, 1944

Germany surrenders

Oct 21, 1944

Battle of Iwo Jima in Pacific

Feb 19, 1945

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

Japan surrenders

Sep 2, 1945