World War II

By RogerH68828@mnpsk12.org

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler Becomes Chancellor
    On the day of January 30 1933 Hitler became Chancellor ("President"). Nine months from this day is when Adolf Hitler gains absoutley power.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as Kristallnacht, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war what would become the blitzkrieg strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery.

  • France surrenders to Germany

    France surrenders to Germany
    France Surrenders to Nazi Germany. During this period, Hitler built up his forces on Germany's western frontier.

  • Franklin D. Rooselvelt Proposes Lend Lease Program

    Franklin D. Rooselvelt Proposes Lend Lease Program
    Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

  • Attack On Pearl Harbor

    Attack On Pearl Harbor
    Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and required extremely planning.

  • Auschwitz Liberated

    Auschwitz Liberated
    Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 27, 1945. Prisoners re-enact liberation from Auschwitz main camp. The Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp and the Monowitz labor camp were liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front, under the command of Marshal Koniev.

  • Bombing Of Hiroshima

    Bombing Of Hiroshima
    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb also known as "Little Boy" on Hiroshima in Japan.