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Germany Invades Poland- Beginning of World War II
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France and Britain declared war on Germany
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Soviet troops invaded Poland
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As the war expanded, the Nazi Party formed alliances with Japan and Italy in the Tripartite Pact of 1940. [Nazi Party]
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Germany at the same time invaded Norway and Denmark
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German forces swept through Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Hitler's troops crossed the Meuse river and struck forces at Sedan
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Italy declared war on France and Britain
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German forces entered Paris
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Early 1941 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill began receiving crucial aid from the U.S. under the Lend-Lease Act, passed by Congress
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April 1941 - Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German troops overran Yugoslavia and Greece
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[Concentration camps] - The Germans started getting rid of the people that seemed less useful like the sick, weak, and too young.
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Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa.
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360 Japanese aircraft attacked the major U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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Congress declared war on Japan
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June 1942 - the U.S. Pacific Fleet won the Battle of Midway
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November 1942 - Soviet launch counteroffensive which ended the battle of Stalingrad.
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the Wannsee Conference near Berlin, the Nazi Party decided on the last phase of what it called the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish problem” and spelled out plans for the systematic murder of all European Jews
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Allies also had success against Japanese forces. (August - February)
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Mid-1943 - Allied naval forces began an aggressive counterattack against Japan
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[Concentration Camps] - ended the death of 7,000 jews.
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celebrated as “D-Day” - the Allies began a massive invasion of Europe, landing 156,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Early August 1945 - the atomic bomb was unleashed on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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August - the Japanese government issued a statement declaring they would accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration
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Hitler committed suicide
