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Adolf Hitler became prime minister of Germany. In 1934, he was the director of Nazi Germany and transformed Germany into a totalitarian state.
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Japanese armies overran much of eastern China, starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Germany annexes Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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The secret Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons and successfully tested the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Hitler stunned the world by announcing a nonaggression pact with his great enemy- Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator.
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Nazi Germany invades Poland to start the dreadful six year war known as World War II.
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United Stated declared neutrality, prohibiting the export of arms, ammunition and implements of war from the US to foreign nations at war.
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German forces surprised the French and British by attacking through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, an area that was considered invasion proof.
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Hitler forced France to sign the surrender documents.
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The Holocaust, sometimes known as the Shoah, was a genocide of the European Jews during WWII. Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some 6 million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
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Code name Operation Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union with a plan to annihilate the Communist nation.
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Japanese airplanes bombed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack took the lives of about 2,400 people and destroyed battleships and aircrafts.
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Germany and Italy, as Japanese allies, declared war on the United States.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. It took place in the Coral Sea, between Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The Japanese won this battle.
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The Battle of Midway was a naval battle that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. It took place in Midway Atoll and America won.
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President Roosevelt responds to reports of Jewish genocide by establishing the War Refugee Board.
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156,000 American, British and Canadian troops stormed 50 miles on Normandy and fiercely defended beaches in northern France. This was a major turning point in WWII.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin planned for the final stages of the war and for post-war Europe.
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United States forces freed more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp, making its inmates the first on German soil to be freed from the Nazis.
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Victory in Europe Day is a day celebrating the formal acceptance of the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces.
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Japan formally signed that they surrender from the war and this puts an official end to WWII and the hostilities.
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Jewish leader, David Ben-Gurion, announced establishment of the State of Israel, the site of the ancient Jewish kingdom. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
