WW2

Japan invades Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

Japan invades Manchuria

Italy Conquers Ethiopia

Oct 2, 1935

Fascist Italy conquers Ethiopia for revenge

Germany and Italy sign treaty

Oct 31, 1936

Germany and Italy sign treaty of coopoeration

Germany and Japan sign treaty

Nov 25, 1936

Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.

Japan invades China

Jul 7, 1937

Japan invades China after signing treaty with Nazi Germany

Munich Pact

Sep 29, 1938

Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic give land including the key military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.

Germany and Soviet Union sign agreement

Aug 23, 1939

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement

Britain and France declare war

Sep 3, 1939

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany for attacking Poland

Germany and Soviet divide poland

Sep 28, 1939

The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.

Germany takes Denmark and Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.

Italy enters the war

Jun 10, 1940

Italy enters the war

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

This was the day where Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.They sunk or destroyed nineteen ships, and 2,300 were killed. This sparked the U.S. involvement in World War II.

Midway

Jun 4, 1942

This completely changed the war in favor of the Allies. In a succesful victory, Americans destroyed 332 Japanese planes and destroyed all four aircraft carriers. The captain of the Japanese called for a retreat.

Battle of Guadalcanal

Aug 7, 1942

There was a huge Japanese air base on Guadalcanal. The battle for the island was a huge struggle. The battle finally ended within six months, and the Japanese called it "the island of death."

Tokyo Bombing

Mar 9, 1945

330 American B-29s rained incendinary bombs on Tokyo

Iwo Jima

Apr 1, 1945

U.S. troops moved onto the island of Okinawa. They fought a desperate fight, but lost. The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the deadliest land battles alive. The Japanese lost more than 100,000 troops, and Americans 12,000.

Testing of Atomic Bomb

Jul 16, 1945

The first Atomic bomb or A-Bomb was exploded in a desert in New Mexico. The explosion was a success. US threatened Japan with this.

Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

The Japanese had ignored the warning. The U.S. dropped an A-Bomb on Hiroshima, a city of nearly 350,000 people. Between 80,000 and 90,000 people have died.

Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

The Japanese had not yet surrendered. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, a city of about 270,000. More than 70,000 were immediately killed, but then radiation from the bomb had killed many more.

Japan surrenders

Sep 7, 1945

The Japanese had finally surrendered.The ceremony took place on U.S. battle ship Missouri located in the Toky o Bay. Now, Japan was down, and the war has ended.