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President Paul Von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler as the leader of the Nazi Party and as chancellor of Germany. It marked the end of the Weimar Republic.
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Nazis announced new laws which were against Jews. It denied many Jews from basic civil rights.
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Italy attacked Ethiopia without a declaration of war. Four days later, the League of Nations declared Italy an attacker, but took no action against the country.
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Agreement concluded first between Germany and Japan and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan directed against the Communist International (Comintern)
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Anschluss—also known as Anschluss Österreichs—is a German word that means union. Hitler accompanied German troops into Austria, where crowds met them.
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Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia
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German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
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When France got attacked by Belgium, Britain declared war on Germany
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle of World War II. It began upon the British declaration of war against Germany
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Canada was unprepared for war and the army only had about 10 000 soldiers.
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The Battle of Britain was a major air campaign fought over southern England in the summer.
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union
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100's of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and the British colony of Hong Kong.
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Fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of WWII
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This was a major battle on the Eastern Front in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The Dieppe Raid was one of the most bloodiest chapters in Canadian military history. 907 Canadians, including 56 officers, died in this battle that only lasted for nine hours.
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100's of Luftwaffer airplanes swarmed over the Stalingrad and began to bomb. It lasted for more than a day, the city was destroyed and tens of thousands of people died.
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Was an important military effort for Canada during the war. More than 93,000 Canadians, along with allies from Great Britain, France and the United States played a role in this.
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On this day allied forces invaded Western Europe along an 80-kilometre front in Normandy, France.
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The German High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed the surrender of all German forces
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The explosion wiped out 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people
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A second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
