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Attack of Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 because of minerals and other resources such as iron and coal. Japan quickly and successfully invaded the eastern part of China. This is considered to be the first event to start WWII, and negatively affected League of Nations relationships. -
Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg was the city where Nazi's annually rallied showing their German nationalism. During the rallies in 1935, the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour were announced, which together became known as the Nuremberg Racial Laws. -
Alliance with Italy and Germany
Because of Hitler's growing strength, Mussolini was convinced to seek an alliance with Germany. Hitler and Mussolini came to an agreement known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. Japan later joined this group as well, and they became the Axis Powers. -
Kristallnacht
The hollocaust was a massive slaughtering of millions of people, lead by the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. Kristallnacht was an event where a jewish youth shot an employee of the German Emabassy in Paris. Nazi's then viciously attacked all the jewish buildings in the area, killing over 100 Jews. -
Invasion of Poland
Hitler launched a surprise attack on Poland. He used blitzkrieg techniques and sucessfully ivaded the country, unleashing WWII. -
Soviet Union invaded East Poland
The Soviet Union, led by Stalin and the time, sent troops to occupy the eastern portion of Poland. Stalin then continued to annex the regions in the second part of the agreement made with Germany. -
France surrenders
In 1940 Italy and Germany joined forces to attack the weakened France. Within four days Paris had fallen, and France tried to improve their luck by putting a former WWI marshal to become prime minister. However this did not work and France then surrendered within 12 days after they were attacked. -
Battle of Britian
Hitler turned his mind to invading Great Britain. His plan started off extremely successfully, attacking the army, knocking out the air force and bombing cities. The British fought back hard with radar and Enigma and ended up winning the war. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease act was put in place to state that the president could lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country vital to the United States. This helped keep the US out of the war at the time. -
German Invasion of the Soviet Union
Hitler launched a blitzkreig invasion on an unprepared Soviet Union. Hitler had trapped Leningrad's 2.5 million inhabitants with no food, and they quickly fell due to famine. Almost half died, but the city refused to fall as Germany then retreated. -
Atlantic Charter
The US had not joined the war yet, and Roosevelt and Churchill had met secretly. They issued a joint declaration (the Atlantic Charter), which upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government. It later served as the Allies' peace plan at the end of WWII. -
Pearl Harbor
The United States had cracked the Japanese code and were beginning to slowly weaken the Japanese force.Japan, fully aware of what was happening, strategised to make a surprise attack on the US in the pacific. On the sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Hawaii was bombed, and the Japanese successfully destroyed a majority of the US navy. -
Japanese internment
The US military started to collect all of the Japanese in America. They put these people into internment camps in secluded locations to ensure that no Japanese people living in America couod participate in an invasion. -
Battle of Midway
Midway Island was home to an American airfield, but after another japanese code was broken they knew they would soon be under attack and outnumbered. The Americans planned to ambush the Japanese, and it was successful, destroying Japanese ships and planes before they could do any harm. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
Roosevelt and Churchill met and decided to attack on Itay first, before they made a move. 180000 soldiers landed in Sicily and captured it from Italian and German troops. -
Dday
D-day was the day that the invasion of Normandy occured. This was a very violent battle between German-occupied France and the Allies, resulting in a German defeat. -
German Surrender
In 1945 millions of soldiers attacked Germany as its power started to fall. General Eisenhower accepted surrender of the Third Reich from the German Military. The Nazi's had finally surrendered. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The Americans, president Truman at the time, had to make a massive decision whether or not to use an atomic bomb on Japan to end the war as quickly as possible. America threatened Japan, and with no Japanese response, the first atomic bomb rained from the sky on the city of Hiroshima Japan, killing almost 73000 people. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
After the bombing of Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 37500+ people. The Japanese then made the descision to finally surrender to America after suffering through two atomic bombs. -
Japanese surrender
After the two atomic bombs attacked on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese finally surrendered. With this Japanese surrender, the war had finally ended, and the world had to start rebuilding itself from the destruction of war.
