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January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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Italy Invades Ethiopia
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speech Hitler justifies his decision to leave the Disarmament Conference and withdraw from the League, Delivered May 1 1937 in the Lustgarten, Berlin.
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Hitler’s speech to Germany
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Hitler crossed the border into Austria
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A pact between nazi Germany and the soviet union.
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Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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more than 1,000 synagogues were burned or otherwise damaged. Rioters ransacked and looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses, killed at least 91 Jews, and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. The attackers were often neighbors.
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Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II
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Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans.
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Germany declares war on the United States.
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies aka FDR dies
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Benito Mussolini executed.
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Death of Adolf Hitler.
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Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French Forces, announced the official end of World War II to the French people on May 8, 1945.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
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In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after accepting the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered.
