• Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    A peace treaty that brought WWI to an end.
  • Germany Quits League of Nations

    Germany Quits League of Nations

    The peacekeeping role of the League had been discredited, and following Hitler's accession to power, was further damaged by an increasingly aggressive Germany
  • Hitler Appointed German Leader

    Hitler Appointed German Leader

    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Party.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws

    Antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany
  • Italians Invade Ethiopia

    Italians Invade Ethiopia

    There was a border incident between Somaliland. Eventually, Italy invaded Ethiopia.
  • Rome Berlin Axis Treaty

    Rome Berlin Axis Treaty

    Germany formed the Rome-Berlin Axis with Italy's fascist dictator, Mussolini.
  • Japan Invades China

    Japan Invades China

    A military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
  • Hitler Invades the Sudetenland

    Hitler Invades the Sudetenland

    Hitler's eye was caught by Sudetenland. Sudeten Germans began protests and provoked violence from the Czech police.
  • Hitler Invades Austria

    Hitler Invades Austria

    German troops marched into Austria to annex the nation.
  • HItler Invades Poland

    HItler Invades Poland

    Defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II
  • France/GB Declare War on Germany

    France/GB Declare War on Germany

    In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain, and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany
  • Tripartite Pact

    Tripartite Pact

    An agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin. It made a defense alliance between these countries.
  • Germany/Japan Pact

    Germany/Japan Pact

    Created a defense alliance between the countries
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • D Day

    D Day

    The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders

    Germany surrenders to the Allies in Reims, France. This ended WW2.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    The day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces ending the war in Europe.
  • Bomb on Hiroshima

    Bomb on Hiroshima

    The US drops a bomb on Hiroshima killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people.
  • Bomb on Nagasaki

    Bomb on Nagasaki

    Three days after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US dropped one on Nagasaki.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    The day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders

    Japanese Emperor Hirohito surrendered on August 15, but formally did on September 9, 1945.

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