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D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. -
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Hitlers Control
Hitler's "rise" can be considered to have ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month. President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
When Japan Invaded China
A clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China. This clash was followed by indications of intensified military activity on the part of Japan, -
The Anschluss
Germany took over Austra. Causing Hitler to violate the Treaty of Versailles -
The Neutrality Act of 1939
After a fierce debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed. This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations -
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World war 2
World War II started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany. The war in Europe ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. The war in the Pacific ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia and established a protectorate over Slovakia. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War II. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. -
The Fall of France
In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. This brought land operations on the Western Front to an end until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 -
The Battle of Britian
Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids. Conducted by the German air force from July through September 1940, after the fall of France -
U.S. Oil Embargo on Japan
Responding to the Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina (July 24) following an agreement between Japan and Vichy France, the U.S. froze Japanese assets on July 26, 1941, and on August 1 established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Se -
The Bataan Death March
The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles, From Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. ... A few days later, Japan announced its surrender. -
V-E Day
Discovered in Great Britain, Western Europe, the United States, and Australia, and on May 9 in the Soviet Union and New Zealand. V-E Day commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, ending World War II in Europe.
