WWII Historical Context and General Information

  • Beginning of WWI

    Beginning of WWI
    Germany declares war on Russia becuase they want to have a lot of power and eliminate the people that didnt agree with that idea.
  • United States declared war to Germany

    The United States Congress declared war upon Germany, only hours after Germany declared war on the United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  • End of WWI

    It was a global war mostly centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war
  • The Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles
    I was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
  • Global Financial Crash

    It was an extremely sharp deflationary recession in the United States and other countries, shortly after the end of World War I.
  • Period: to

    Facism: Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, Hiroito

  • Anti-Semitic Propaganda

    The party used the Jews as scapegoats for all problems in Germany. A sword with a swastika stabs a snake with a Star of David on its head, and with the words 'Usury, Versailles, Unemployment, War guilt, Marxism, Bolshevism, Lies Deception White slavery, Terror, Civil war.
  • Nuremberg Rally

    In 1923, the Nazis and other extreme right-wing groups had met here for the "German Day". In 1927 and 1929, the National Socialists staged their so-called Reichsparteitage in Luitpold Grove for the first time. The war memorial honouring the Fallen of World War I, which was completed in 1929, served as a backdrop for ceremonies honouring Nazi party followers.
  • The Axis power: Hitler, Hiromito, Musselini

    It was headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. The alliance originated in a series of agreements between Germany and Italy
  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

    Was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939.
  • Germany invades Poland

    The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
  • The Battle of Britian: Luffwaffe

    German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force
  • Auschwitz establish

    The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbour

    Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes.
  • japanese attack pearl harbor

    japanise start to get tired of negotiating with united states
  • The Manhattan Project

    It was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
  • Normandy landings

    Were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 also known as "D-DAY" of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history.
  • Hitler commited suicide

    Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. He committed suicide with him by taking cyanide.That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.