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Beginning of the War
Hitler and Stallion signed GNSP. Hitler planned an invasion on Poland. Great Britain and France backed up Poland if Germany was to attack. The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland -
Battle on British territory
In the first attack on British territory, the Germans hit the Brits at the Firth of Forth. They damage cruisers South-Hampton and Edinburgh and the destroyer Mohawk. The Nazi euthanasia program to eliminate "life unworthy of life" at first focused on newborns and very young children. Midwives and doctors were required to register children up to age three who showed symptoms of mental retardation, physical deformity, or other symptoms included on a questionnaire from the Reich Health Ministry. -
Germany take over Belgium
Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Because of the failure of his appeasement policies, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns. Forming a coalition government, Winston Churchill replaces him. Standing alone, Churchill soon began conferring with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for aid to the British cause. -
Battle of Britain
During July Hitler sent his Luftwaffe bombers to attack British ports. During the attacks on shipping continued but bombing raids were concentrated on RAF airfields. With the failure of daylight bombing raids Hitler began a series of nightly bombing raids on London and other important industrial cities. -
The Draft
About 16 million Americans men between the ages of 21 through 35 was required to enter the draft. Nearly 50 million Americans entered the draft during the war -
Hitler attack Russia
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. Stalin immediately signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and launched an Eastern front battle that would claim 20 million casualties.The USA, which had been supplying arms to Britain under a ‘Lend-Lease’ agreement, offered similar aid to USSR. -
Bombing of pearl harbor
Pearl Harbor is a naval base near Honolulu Hawaii. It was a surprise attack by the Japanese fighter planes crashed into the base. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler was 55 feet under his headquarter it had 18 rooms, water supply and electricity there. Warned by officers that the Russians were only a day or so from overtaking the chancellery and urged to escape to Berchtesgarden,, a small town in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler owned a home, the dictator instead chose suicide.It is believed that both he and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules For good measure, he shot himself with his service pistol. -
Mussolini captured and executed
They would not let him pass, he disguised himself in a Luftwaffe coat and helmet. Hoping to slip into Austria with some German soldiers. His subterfuge proved incompetent, and he and Petacci were discovered by partisans and shot, their bodies then transported by truck to Milan. Where they were hung upside down and displayed publicly for revilement by the masses. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
America drop 2 atomic bombs on japan, The explosion wipe out 90 percent of the people there and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
