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Hitler wanted to unify everyone who spoke German, including Austria and East Prussia
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, and Daladier met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have Czechoslovakia, but the Czechs weren't at the meeting, and they knew no one would help them fight Germany, so the Czechs just surrendered. Chamberlain returned to England with a piece of paper signed by Hitler that said "peace in our time".
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Hitler and Stalin sign a "non-aggression" pact, including clauses that divided Poland between the two countries.
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Britain has been creating a secret radar/early warning system along the east coast, they also reassured Poland as they were being threatened by Hitler.
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Britain and France announce that they are now at war with Germany.
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Chamberlain is pressured to take more action as Britain hasn't done much in the war on Germany at this point, so he resigns and Winston Churchill takes his place.
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France signed an armistice with Germany after being devastated by World War II, taking France into German custody.
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, making America unwillingly involved in the War.
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America defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway, making the US Navy capable of pushing the Japanese back and make a stronger naval defense.
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Britain and the US declare war on Japan
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After Mussolini is thrown out of office, the new government surrenders to the British and America, thus joining the Allies
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Allied troops make a strong "bridgehead" on Normandy soil after feeding the Germans false information
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German leader, Adolf Hitler, commits suicide in his bomb shelter
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Admiral Doenitz, Hitler's successor, tries to make an agreement with Allied forces to surrender in the Western Allies but still fight Russia. The Allied forces refused.
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US drops an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima, devastating it, later in August causing Japanese forces to surrender, and formally ending World War II
