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Japan invades China
This is when China starts to fight against Japan and their goal to expand. This was a fight between the Republic of China and the Japanese Empire. Before this invasion Japan and China had small disagreements that lead to this war happening. -
Germany incorporates Austria.
Austria’s leader met with Adolf Hitler hoping to change his mind about taking Austria. At first he did not let Hitler take his country. Then he told the Austrian forces to stand down and he allowed Hitler to take over. -
Munich Agreement
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany. -
Slovaks declare their independence
Under German pressure, the Slovaks 9eclare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
USA Nolonger Suplies Japan
The United States, which supplies Japan with nearly all its aviation fuel, stops the export of any technical information about the production of aviation fuel. They stopped supplying Japan. -
Finland surrenders to the Soviet Union
Finland surrenders to the Soviet Union. Hitler invades Norway and Denmark. Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. -
Germany takes over France
Germany takes over France and puts it under control of Pro Nazi french leaders. Italy which is being dictated by Benito Mussolini declares war on France and England. Using more than a thousand boats England evacuates 338,000 French troops from France. Germany starts bombing supply boats bringing supplies from America to England. -
America cuts all Oil Exports to Japan
Japan begins to take over parts of France. America responds by cutting of all oil exports to Japan. Japan slowly starts to needs more oil for ships and planes. -
Germans began bombing London
Germans began bombing London every night for 57 nights. This continues until May 1941 and over 40,000 people die in what the Londoners call the Air Raid Campaign. Germany Japan and Italy sign a treaty making the three allies against England and France. This also came off as a threat to the U.S to stop helping England and France. -
Warsaw Ghetto
More than 400,000 Jews were brought to the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi’s. Six million Jews will be killed, along with hundreds of thousands of other minorities. Italy attacked Greece and German troops come to aid the Italian troops. -
Japan Plans for Pearl Harbor
Japan’s leader starts to plan the air attack on Pearl Harbor. America decides to let President Roosevelt send weapons and ammunition to england. The U.S is no longer a neutral nation they are on England’s side. German takes over Greece and Yugoslavia. -
Germans Invade Soviet Union
Over 3,000 German troops invade the Soviet Union. Germany continues to attack the Soviet Union but they are freezing and starving to death because it is in the middle of the winter. -
Japan Prepares for War Againt U.S.A
Japanese commanders start to get prepared for a war against America. Germany sinks an American ship. This is the first American ship to be sunk in the European war. 45 of the 160 men on the ship died. -
USA Tells Japan to get out of China
merica tells Japan to get out of china. Japan sends people to Washington to avoid war with America. Six Japanese aircraft carriers and other warships secretly leave northern Japan and head for Pearl Harbor. The United States cuts off all oil exports. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Almost at the same time, Japanese warplanes attack the Philippines and two U.S. islands: Wake and Guam, which are later occupied. Japanese troops invade Malaya and Thailand and seize Shanghai. Later in December Japanese troops invade Burma and Hong Kong. Three days after Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. -
Bataan Death March
Was 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 which began on April 9, 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. The reported death tolls vary, especially among Filipino POWs, because historians cannot determine how many prisoners blended in with the civilian population and escaped. -
U,S, Took out one of Japan's Fleets
Between 3 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. -
War Refugee Board
Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board that allowed more than 200,000 Jewish refugees in the US. The War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, was a U.S. executive agency created to aid civilian victims of the Nazi and Axis powers. Created largely at the behest of Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Roosevelt "stressed that it was urgent that action be taken at once to forestall the plan of the Nazis to exterminate all the Jews a -
D-day
Were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Battle of the Bulge
January 25, 1945- Was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front Toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. -
Yalta Confrence
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta. Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields (including the South Field and the Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. -
First U.S. atomic bomb test
Potsdam Conference begins. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Operation Cobra
American Lieutenant General Omar Bradley's intention was to take advantage of the German preoccupation with British and Canadian activity around the town of Caen, in Operation Goodwood, and immediately punch through the German defenses that were penning in his troops while the Germans were distracted and unbalanced. Once a corridor had been created, the First Army would then be able to advance into Brittany.
