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The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident
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This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”, but it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent
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Annexation of the Austria into Nazi Germany
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Extermination against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians
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Invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent
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Important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. Was defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe
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A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack brought the US into WWII
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Transfer of Filipinos and American Prisoners led by the Imperial Japanese Army
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American planes defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
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Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history
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We launched powerful counteroffensive against allies and caught them by surprise.
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Meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by FDR, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
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Day to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in human history
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Day where Japan surrendered which ended WWII