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World War Two was initiated because of this act.
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Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland.
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That started the Winter War.
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Denmak surrenders the day of the attack. Norway held on until June 6th.
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The attacks were on the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Italy invades France on June twenty first.
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Germany occupied two thirds of France. The rest of the land had a puppet government set up.
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Hitler attacked the Soviet Union because he thought Britain was only in the war still because they were expecting help from the Soviets.
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Japan's navy attacked Pearl Harbor in the early morning of December seventh.
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The United States declared war on Japan.
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American naval forces stopped the Japanese and saved Australia from being invaded.
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U.S planes destroyed Japanese air carriers and defeated their navy. The United States had naval superiority in the Pacific.
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German troops were stopped and were cut off of their supply line in the freezing winter. They were forced to surrender at Stalingrad.
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The Allies win and put an end to the North African campaign.
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Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio is allowed to form a new government.
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British and US troops land on the Normandy Beaches and launches a "Second Front" against the Germans. Hitler was late to respond because he thought this was a decoy for a different attack.
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France signed an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis partnership.
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Hitler knew he was going to lose and did not want to witness it.
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Germany surrendered to the Soviets.
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Truman has an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Truman has an atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
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World War two is over. An estimated fifty million people died during the war.
