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Bentio Mussolini
He was the dictator of Italy, his father was an atheist, freethinker and anti-Papal and his mother a devout Catholic. in foreign aggression the he invaded Ethiopia (1935-36), invaded Albania, multi-state invasion of Greece. -
Joseph Stalin
He was the dictator of the soviet union. Under Stalin's rule the concept of "Socialism in One Country" became a central tenet of Soviet society, He Killed millions of his own people, and also Killed more people in 2 months than hitler, he Caused comunism to spread through Russia--leading to the Cold War. -
Adolf Hitler
He was Germany's dictator, In 1936 Hitler moves troops to the Rhineland. He broke the Treaty of Versailles. 1938 Hitler takes over Austria, In September Hitler takes over the Sudetenland. In March 1939 Hitler takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia, just 2 days after Hitler took that over, Hitler invades Poland. In 1940, Hitler used the blitzkieg strategy to take over Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands, and he believed in Aryan race and an extreme form of German nationalism. -
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Occupation
The Axis invaded and held troops in nearly all of Europe. While their armies were stationed in the nations that were invaded, puppet governments were established or the Axis took complete control. -
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Resistance Movements
The resistance movements during WWII composed of the secret armies and partisans that operated in occupied territory to try and hinder the Axis armies. They went about this through gathering intelligence for the Allies, destroying communication lines, assisting escaped POW’s and openly attacking the Germans once the retreats on both the western and eastern fronts had started. -
Bliztkrieg
Blitzkrieg (German for "Lightning war") was a tactic involving an all-motorized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the lines are broken, proceeding without regard to its flank. One of the most famous uses of the Blitzkreig was when the German airforce bombed British cities, killing more than 12,000 civilians. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a series of attacks led by the German airforce to try and force the British into surrendering. This time-span also included the Blitzkreig, which killed thousands of civilians. However, the Germans could not defeat the RAF, and the Battle of Britain became the first major victory against Germany. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. Jews were systematically murdered in the deadliest genocide in history, which was part of a broader acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe. -
European and American Reactions
America decided originally not to get involved in World War 2 because of the toll World War 1 took on the country and because the state of the economy. However, with the bombing of pearl harbor, America decided to join the War, which eventually pulled the country out of it's economic depression. -
US Enters the War
This date also doubles as the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Four days later, Hitler had also declared war on the United States. -
Baatan Death Walk
After the U.S. surrender of the Baatan peninsula on the island of Luzon, around 75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to walk a 65 mile march to prison camps. Due to harsh treatment from Japanese guards and weather conditions- many perished. -
Coral Sea Battle
Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands, and on the 3–4 May, Japanese forces successfully invaded and occupied Tulagi. With both sides having suffered heavy losses in aircraft and carriers damaged or sunk, the two fleets disengaged and retired from the battle area. -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy- causing irreparable damage to their military technologies. This ended only 3 days later. -
Guadacanal Battle
With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942. This led to a series of land and sea conflict, and both sides endured heavy losses to their warship contingents. However, the Japanese suffered a far greater toll of casualties, forcing their withdrawal from Guadalcanal by February 1943. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese. -
D-Day
D-Day was the allied invasion of France. Codenamed "Operation Neptune", it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The attack was collaborated by Australia, Canada, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The landings were preceded by heavy naval and aerial bombardment and airborne landings behind enemy lines. Over 4,000 troops lost their lives. -
Liberations
Under the onslaught in both the north and south of France, the German Army fell back.German generals accepted the French ultimatum and surrendered ignoring orders from Hitler that Paris should be held and destroyed. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. German offensive intended to drive a wedge between the American and British armies in France -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Occupation of japan
Occupation (of Japan), (1945–52) military occupation of Japan by the Allied Powers after its defeat in World War II. Theoretically an international occupation, in fact it was carried out almost entirely by U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur. -
Race for Berlin
The Race to Berlin was a competition between two Soviet marshals, to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
The big three conferences
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Marshal. plan
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on a city in Japan called Hiroshima. Only 3 days later they dropped another nicknamed "Fat Man" in the city of Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
Meaning; Victory of Japan Day. This is the day in which the Japanese surrendered in World War 2, ending the war. -
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The trials of Nuremberg
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
