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Japan Invades mainland Asia
This was the first step in starting WWII and this was the first aggressions shown by Japan. -
Germany reoccupies the Rhineland
This was part of Germany that was given to France in the Treaty of Versi. This is was started the German aggression in europe. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Pact
When Italy and Germany became allies with eachother setting up the war to come in europe. -
Take over of Austria by Germany
Banned by the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler pushed for this anyway. First thing broken from the treaty. -
Germany ends the Treaty of Versailles
Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact is Signed
HItler not wanting to make the mistakes of WWI signed this to keep Germany from fighting on two fronts. -
Germany Invades Poland
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Britain and France declare War on Germany
Both Britian and France had a treaty to defend Poland forcing both countries into the war. -
Hitler Invades France
This ended the phony war and france is soon conquered. -
Battle of Britian Starts
This was the start of the air campaign against Britian and was waged throughout the summer of 1940. -
Operation Barbarossa
The invasion by Axis powers of the Soviet Union. The largest invasion in the history of warfare. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The first aggession of the Japanese people against the USA. Causing the USA to enter WWII. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of the Axis powers against the soviet union in the southwestern town of Stalingrad. -
Allied Victory in Africa
During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. -
Formation of the Allied Forces in the Conference in Tehran
Set up the aliances of Britian, USA, and the Soviet Union. -
D-Day
This was the regaining of territory of France by invading the beaches of France. Largest water Invasion in military history; which marked the tide switching toward the allied forces winning the war. -
Battle of the Buldge Start
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive, launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. -
End of the Battle of the Bulge
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Allied Conference in Yalta
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Germany Surrenders
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945. Generally ended the war. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.