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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany in 1933. Hitler was apart of the Nazi party. -
Hitler pledges to undo the treaty of Versailles
Hitler broke the treaty over Germany armed forces. he was claiming that the recent treaty between France and Russia threatened Germany safety. -
Japanese Aggression
Japan invaded Manchuria for their raw materials. Eventually, Japan invaded china and the capital of Beijing and Nanjing. -
Germany, Italy, Japan form pact known as Axis Powers
On May 22, 1939, Germany and Italy signed the so-called Pact of Steel, formalizing the Axis alliance with military provisions. Finally, on September 27, 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, which became known as the Axis alliance. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Armed conflict that Ethiopians had on Italy. -
Germany annexes Austria.
On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Germany, italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement. (Appeasement)
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
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Phony War
Germany and France comes face to face on the Maginot line. they look at each other for months until Hitler does a surprise attack then they have chaos. -
August 7th, 1942 - Battle of Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code-named Operation Watchtower was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
June 6th, 1944 - D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
May 7th, 1945 - Germany surrenders
On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
August 6th, 1945 - Hiroshima
"Little Boy" was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II -
August 9th, 1945 - Nagasaki
"Fat Man" was the code-name for the atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. -
September 2, 1945 - Japan Surrenders
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.
