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Hitler Appoints Himself Führer
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Hitler Begins Rearmament
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Japan Invades China
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German Forces Enter and Occupy Austria
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Germany Invades Poland, Starting WW2
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Germany, Italy, and Japan Sign Tripartite Pact, Solidifying Axis Powers
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Germany and Axis Powers Attack Russia (Operation Barbarossa)
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Japanese Surprise Aerial Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway (United States victory over Japan)
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Allied Powers Take Sicily
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Italy Surrenders to Allied Powers, Mussolini Escapes With Help of Germany
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D-Day Invasion of Normandy
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Battle of the Bulge (German Failed Attack Allied Powers)
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Island of Iwo Jima is Captured by US Marines
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Franklin Roosevelt Dies, Harry Truman Replaces Him as President
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Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
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Germany Officially Surrenders to Allied Powers
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VE Day
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U.S. Drops First Atomic Bomb on the Japanese City, Hiroshima
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Second Atomic Bomb is Dropped by U.S. on Nagasaki, Another Japanese City
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Japan Surrenders to US and Official End to War
