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Japanese Attack on China
The reason for Japan attacking China is that Japan has little natural resources on the island. It was formed by volcanoes. Japan attacked China to get China's natural resources to fund Japan's economy. Japan had imperial ambitions, the same as those held by Russia, England, France, the Dutch, and the USA - when it came to the Far East. -
Hitler Reveals War Plans
From the very beginning of his career until his dying day, Adolf Hitler had just two major goals. His primary goal was the forcible acquisition of Lebensraum (living space) for the German people. Secondly, he desired some kind of final reckoning with the Jews. -
German Forces Mobilize
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the German Army was unable to grow to more than 100,000 men. One way that Adolf Hitler dealt with this issue was to allow the SA to grow rapidly. By 1934 the SA had grown to a force of over 4,500,000 men. -
Czech Government Resigns
Munich Conference results in cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Benes resigns his position and Czech government is done. Hitler felt as though the Czech government was mistreating the Germans.
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Hitler Threatens Jews in Reichstag Speech
“Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth and this the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”
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Nazi's take Czechoslovakia
No matter what concessions the Czech government attempted to make to appease Hitler, whether dissolving the Communist Party or suspending all Jewish teachers in ethnic-German majority schools, rumors continued to circulate about “the incorporation of Czechoslovakia into the Reich.” -
Nazi's and Soviets Sign Pact
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (also called the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact), which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II. -
Nazi's Invade Poland
In 1939 the German Army had 98 divisions available for the invasion of Poland. Although some were ill-equipped veteran reservists, the still had 1.5 million well-trained men available for action. It also had 9 other divisions. Each one had 328 tanks, 8 support battalions and 6 artillery batteries -
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany
In 1939, the Allied Forces of Great Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand responded to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland by declaring war. After the Germans failed to meet a deadline set by The Allies to retreat from Poland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced on radio: "I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and consequently this country is at war with Germany." This marked the beginning of World War II. -
Rationing Begins in Britian
To make the British weak, the Germans tried to cut off supplies of food and other goods. German submarines attacked many of the ships that brought food to Britain. Before the war, Britain imported 55 million tons of food, a month after the war had started this figure had dropped to 12 million. The Ration Book became the key to survival for nearly every household in Britain. Every member of the public was issued with a ration book. -
United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
USA was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” Roosevelt’s 10-min speech, ending with an oath- “So help us God”—was greeted in the House by thunderous applause and stamping of feet. Within one hour, the president had his declaration of war. -
Hitler Declares War on the United States.
On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States. -
German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.
Marie Burger
"I saw girls weeping—my friends, girls I had grown up with. Their bundles were placed in the last car and the people were herded onto the train. We lived not far from Dachau." -
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. During the Conference, the three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and made a number of important decisions concerning the post World War II era. -
D Day
This was the invasion of German Occupied France by the Western Allies,in Normandy.The purpose of the invasion was to establish a major beach-head on the coast of Occupied France from which a campaign against German forces in Western Europe could be initiated.This campaign was intended to liberate German occupied countries in Western Europe,and then to invade Germany itself if necessary so as to end WW2. -
Battle of the Bulge
12/17/1944 - 1/16/1945: Battle of the Bulge
Battle Of The Bulge summary: The Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945), also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II; it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. -
United States Army Liberates Dachau
The infamous Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was liberated on Sunday, April 29, 1945 just one week before the end of World War II in Europe. Two divisions of the US Seventh Army, the 42nd Rainbow Division and the 45th Thunderbird Division, participated in the liberation, while the 20th Armored Division provided support. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.
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First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
Victory Over Japan Day Japanese Sign Surrender Agreement
Victory Day, also known as VJ Day, marks the anniversary the Allies’ victory over Japan during World War II. It followed the dropping of the devastating atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Victory Day is a state holiday in Rhode Island in the United States on the second Monday of August each year.
