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It prohibited the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war from the U.S to foreighn nations.
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Coalition formed between Italy and Germany that linked two fascist countries together.
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Anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Germany which was directed against the 3rd Communist International.
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Hitler declares Austria apart of Nazi Germany
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The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it.
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German troops invade Czechoslovakia
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The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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German troops parade through invading Poland.
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The Soviet Union attacks Finland on November 30
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On this day in 1940, German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
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Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Germany continues to invade other contries including the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
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The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940, during World War II.
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Benito declares war on France and Great Britain after with-holding former allegience with either side.
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force.
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Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy
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Erwin Rommel gains control over Lybia.
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Under the code name operation Barbarossa Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.
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Japan drops bombs on Pearl Harbor
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor the US declares war on Japan entering WWII.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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Ameeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.
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The forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.
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United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.An important turning point in the Pacific.
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Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day.
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General Douglas MacArthur, President Osmeña, and staff land at Palo.
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ictory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
