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Japanese attack on Manchuria
The Japanese had industrialized and were in great need of natural resources absent on their homeland. the closest and most convinient option was to take over China's Manchuria, an area in north eastern China rich in all the materials Japan needed. They invaded and succesfully started a war with China. -
Nuremburg Laws
Hitler already had a deep hatred of jews, but these laws made that hatred public. They defined jew as a nationality and restricted relations between jews and members of the german society. -
Kristallnacht
German soldiers marched throught the streets during the night and terrorized hundreds of jews. Over a hundred were murdered and buildings belonging to them were destroyed. It was called Kristallnacht, Meaning night of broken glass, because of how much glass was in the streets from broken jewish shop windowa. -
German and Italian Alliance
Italy needed to help in the war in order to reap the benefits of victory. They previously had an alliance with Germany but they had remained nuetral up until 1939. They then began their work in Africa and taking over Egypt and the Suez Canal. -
Invasion of poland
Hitler's first action of World War two was to take back Poland. He used the blitzkrieg strategy and swept through the nation to the capital of Warsaw with no mercy. Poland fell with little resistance from the poles and no help from outside alllies. -
Soviet Invasion of Poland
Stalin and Hitler had made a secret agreement that once Germany took the western half of Poland, the Soviet Union could take the eastern half. That was exactly what they did, with Stalin sending an overwhelming amount of soldiers to occupy the rest. -
France Surrenders
Germany had taken an unexpexted route to trap the allies and forced Belgium to surrender. French and English troops evacuated to Great Britain and left France to Germany and Italy. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act allowed the United States to supply arms to any countries vital to the U.S. This did not stop Germany from sinking their ships anyway. -
Battle of Britain
One of the logest battles of the second world war, it took place in England and consisted mostly of air combat. Germany's relentless boming raids wore down on the British people, but they held fast. Eventually Hitler turned his eyes and his forces away from England, leaving them in victory. -
German Invasion of the Soviet Union
Although Germany and Russia had an alliance, it was never Hitler's intention to keep it that way. The Soviets took advantage of their land however, using the scorched earth strategy and the harsh winter to deplete the german army. They withstood over a year of bombardment and saved their capital. -
Atlantic Charter
President Roosevelt and Prime Minster Winston Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland to discuss trade. The Atlantic Charter upheld free trade among peaceful nations and gave the people a right to choose their own government. -
Battle of Midway
The americans had cracked a japanese code and learned of an attack on the importnant airfield at Midway island, west of Hawaii. They were greatly outnumbered but set up a successful ambush and shattered the Japanese fleet. -
Japanese Internment
When Japan sparked war with The United States, the U.S. responded by placing all japanese along the pacific coast in camps in the center of the country. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese needed more natural resources than they could get in Manchuria, and they thought they could wipe out the entire American fleet in one sweep. They failed, however they did devestate the port in Hawaii. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
180,000 soldiers swept through and took Italy in just under two months. The plan was to take back France, but Italy was less protected and would make France and easier win. -
D-Day
The Allies had been trying to win France back from Germany through the entire war. D-Day was the day the Allies decided to take it. They stormed the beaches of northern France and had chased the Nazis out within three months -
German Surrender
The Fuhrer who had been so aggressive on the side of the Germans had shot himself. The Nazi party had lost every battle in the last few years of WW2. The only option for the capital of Germany, Berlin, was surrender. This had not ended the war, however. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The Germans had started research on a new type of destructive weapon and America was wary of it. The POTUS gave permission for experimentation in the U.S. and Japan gave them a perfect oppurtunity to test it. They had refused to surrender even after America warned them of "ruin from the air". -
Bombing of Nagasaki
After the first devastation at Hiroshima didn't get the expected response from Japan, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on another Japanese city a little farther south. -
Japanese Surrender
After they saw exactly how much fire power the Allies posessed, the Japanese surrended and ended the second world war.
