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Germany directly violates the Treaty of Versallies by invading the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland.
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Japan invades Manchuria, China. This marks a step in America's change from isolationist to activity in the war.
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FDR exclaimed the need to "quaratine" the Axis Powers and introduced the cash-and-carry policy.
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Hitler joins Austria with Germany to reunite all German speaking people. France and Great Britain do nothing to stop Germany.
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Germany invades Sudetenland, causing the Munich Conference to occur.
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In an attempt to keep peace, the conference was meant to quench Germany's want to for the German speaking people to be united. However, it also made it easier for Germany to later invade Czechoslovakia.
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After taking control over all their military fortifications, Germany invades and gains control over Czechoslovakia. France and Great Britain do nothing.
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Soviet Russia signs a peace pact with Germany to avoid war over Poland.
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Germany invades Poland with Blitzkrieg. Great Britain and France give Germany an ultimatum, which they refuse. This marks the beginning of the war.
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Longest battle of WWII
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America now would provide military weapons to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
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Meeting between FDR and Churchill to make an attmept at peace.
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Japan bombs the US Naval base in Hawaii. This marks America's entrance into the war.
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America declares war on Japan. FDR called Pearl Harbor "a day that will live in infamy."
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Germany and Italy declare war on America, turning this into a true World War.
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March in which more than 10,000 Filipino and American prisoners died.
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Fought completely by aircraft.
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America cracked the Japanese code
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Last German offensive on the Eastern war front. Allied victory.
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The Allied powers block Japan's attmept to take over British-owned Australia
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America and it's allies attack North Africa. Marks the beginning of America's attack in the Atlantic.
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America lands in Normandy to aid the French.
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Japan no longer threatened America.
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Final German offensive on the Eastern war front. Allied Victory
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FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet to discuss post-war organization.
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This battle gave America a base near Japan that was much needed to defeat them.
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It was the largest amiphbious assault in the Pacific war. Bloodiest battle in the Pacific.
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America drops a sencond atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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Meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Truman to decide upon Germany's punishment.
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America launched the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Japan surrenders to Allied Powers.
