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  Japan takes over Manchuria to gain more resources.
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  Adolf Hitler comes to power promising that he will lead Germany out of their economic depression.
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  Hitler ordered the German army to invade Polland to gain more land.
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  One of Germany's worst concentration camps is established by the end of the war over !,000,000 prisoners were held there.
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  Allied were narrowly evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk.
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  Germany begins their attempt to invade the Soviet Union.
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  Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, a US naval base.
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  Japan tries to attack a fleet of navy ships to weaken the US.
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  Allied troops fought on the beaches of Normandy to take over France.
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  The 32nd president of the United States FDR dies.
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  Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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  Germany surrenders to the Allied Forces.
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  The US drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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  The US drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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  Japan surrenders to the allies, ending the Second World War