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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. Promising to make Germany a better place and to make it one of the greatest country.
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Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, invades Ethiopia.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt forbids U.S. ships from carrying arms to China or Japan.
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Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, he did that because he wanted more land, especially in the east, to expand Germany
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Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain made the announcement that the country was at war becase of what Hitler had done and that was indaved Poland.
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied.
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The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire, to be taken off the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea-worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. More than 338,000 men were rescued, among them some 140,000 French who would form the nucleus of the Free French army under a little known general, Charles de Gaulle.
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General Hideki Tojo took control of Japan
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On this day is when Japan attacks Pearl Habor and that is when USA joins in for WWII
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D-Day: The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia.
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Italian insurgents capture Mussolini, murder him, and mutilate his body.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
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Germany surrendered and World War II ended
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
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Tokyo asks for peace on the condition that Emperor Hirohito will retain his throne. The Allies accept.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb—the first to be used in warfare—on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000.
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The second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki killing half of what The bomb of Hiroshima had killed that was to make Japan surrender.
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Japan now has no other option than to surrender after the two bombs U.S. dropped and killing a lot of innocent people and basically destroying everything.
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A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship Missouri. World War II officially ends.
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US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan's surrender formally ending the second world war.
