WWII

Hitler Violates Treaty of Versailles

Mar 16, 1935

Germany 'Anschluss' with Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Chamberlin appeased Hitler at Munich Conference

Sep 30, 1938

Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass

Nov 9, 1938

Start of WWII

Sep 1, 1939

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 17, 1939

Germany Invades Paris

Jun 3, 1940

German U-Boats attack merchants in Atlantic

Jul 1, 1940

British on defensive in Western Desert of Noth Africa vs Italy

Dec 9, 1940

Roosevelt signs Lend-and-Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

Germany vs. Soviet Union "Operation Barbarossa"

Jun 22, 1941

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan drops bombs on Pearl Harbor killing 1500, sending the U.S. to war.

Begins the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz

Jun 1, 1942

Operation Torch - US invasion of North Africa

Nov 8, 1942

Germans lose major battle at Stalingrad

Feb 2, 1943

Germany and Italy troops forfeit in North Africa

May 13, 1943

Americans Capture Palermo, Sicily

Jul 22, 1943

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

160,000 troops landed on 50mile long beach to fight off the Nazi forces in Normandy, France.

Hitlers commits Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day)

May 8, 1945

WWII Allied Forces formally accept Germany's surrender of its armed forces.

Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

2nd Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

Aug 9, 1945

Surrender of Japan

Sep 2, 1945

Japan surrenders to the Allied Powers.

United Nations is Born

Oct 24, 1945