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the Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of Japan invaded Manchuria.
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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931 when the Kwantung Army of Japan invaded Manchuria.
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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany
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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany
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The Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted.
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The Munich Conference, held in September 29-30, 1938 resulted in an agreement signed by Britain, France, Italy and Germany that gave the Sudetenland land of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Kristallnacht, in German history, the night of Nov. 9, 1938 a night of violence against Jews and the destruction of businesses and other property.
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On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, a mutual agreement made by the two leaders guaranteeing that they wouldn't attack each other.
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Germany invades Poland from September 1 to October 6 1939, German forces bombard Poland from land air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory.
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The Blitz was a German bombing on the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
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The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime conscription in U.S. This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register to the draft.
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Operation Barbarossa occurred during WW2. It was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
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during the Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. They destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. It was this attack that forced the United States to enter World War II.
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Bataan Death March. On April 9, 1942, American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines decided that they would not survive much longer in their fight against the Japanese. They were low on food, ammunition, and men were dying from lack of nourishment more than enemy fire.
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The battle of midway began when U.S. bombers from Midway Island struck ineffectually at the Japanese bace 220 miles southwest of the U.S. fleet. Early the next morning Japanese planes from the strike force attacked and bombed Midway heavily, while the Japanese carriers escaped damage from U.S.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of WW2, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
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During WW2, the Battle of Normandy or d-day, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II
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Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s surrender and began plans for a post-war world
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The Battle of Iwo Jima between U.S. and Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan
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The WW2 battle fought between the U.S. and Japanese forces on Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands.
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He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day, is a day celebrating Germany 's surrender of its armed forces
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The U.S. detonated 2 atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Japan surrendered in WW2, bringing the war to an end.
