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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Hitler became a chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. After taking over a immediately began to order a rapid expansion of the state police , the Gestapo, and putting Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, composed entirely of Nazis and dedicated to stamping out whatever opposition to his party might arise. -
Hitler pledges to undo the Treaty Of Versailles
Hitler's rise to power was based on primarily off the fact that he pledged to undo the Treaty of Versailles on March 3rd, 1935. And on the same year Hitler begins rebuilding Germany's military. After Hitler said " Germany would not obey these rules" so the League issued only a mild condemnation. -
October 1, 1936 Axis Power
On october 1 , 1936 three countries joined together and they were Germany, Italy, Japan. Although the Axis partners never developed institutions to coordinate foreign or military policy as the Allies did, the Axis partners had two common interests are territorial expansion and foundation of empires based on military conquest and the overthrow of the post-World War I international order and the destruction or neutralization of Soviet Communism. -
October 6, 1936
Italy planned to invade Ethiopia and move on its capital. About 500,000 Italian soldiers marched to attack Ethiopia, and Ethiopia's military was weak so they couldn't stop it from reaching Addis Ababa on May 5, 1936. Italy was the first country to attack with chemical gasses during war. -
March 13, 1938 Germany annexes Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, learning of the conspiracy, met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the hopes of reasserting his country’s independence but was instead bullied into naming several top Austrian Nazis to his cabinet. -
September 29, 1938 Germany, italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement. (Appeasement)
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. In the spring of 1938, Hitler began openly to support the demands of German-speakers living in the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia for closer ties with Germany. -
Germany breaks the Munich Agreement and occupies the rest of Czech lands.
Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed ... altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. ... Then, on March 15, 1939, during a meeting with Czech President Emil ... ploy by the Hitler, only temporarily delaying the Fuhrer's blood and land lust. -
Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact, dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Germany invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Honoring their support of Poland, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany ... France would begin an offensive against Germany's western border two weeks later. -
Soviet Union invades Poland.
On this day in 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact—the invasion and occupation of eastern Poland. -
Phony War
Phony War is the name given to the period of time in World War Two from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, seemingly nothing happened. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. ... Hours after the invasion, the German minister in Oslo demanded Norway’s surrender. -
France falls and Germany controls Paris
In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. -
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe) was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. -
North African Campaign
The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. -
Britain defeats Germany in Operation Sea Lion
The code name for this operation was 'Sea Lion'. ... Hitler ordered that as long as Germany controlled the sky, Operation Sea Lion would go start on September 15th 1940. Therefore, the invasion depended entirely on whether Göering's Luftwaffe could defeat the RAF. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany -
Battle of Britain ends
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940. -
Germany invades Soviet Union - operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Battle of Midway ends
On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan–comes to an end. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Germany Surrenders
On May 7, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II. General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed the unconditional surrender of both east and west forces in Reims, France, which would take effect the following day.
