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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty held Germany responsible for starting WWII and imposed harsh penalties. This meant a loss of territories, reduction In military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers.
The treaty included 14 main points, as an attempt to never have a war like that happen again. -
Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a 15-year-old girl when she began hiding in the secret annex of her house to hide from Hilter and Natzi. During WWII Anne wrote about all of her experiences before hiding, during it, and then later hearing about her death(obviously she couldn't write about that). Anne Frank's diary describes the frightening period experienced by Anne, her family, and friends in the annex. It also expresses her hopes and aspirations for the future, which were never to be realized. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Even though he was appointed Chancellor, he hadn't attained supreme power. So, he hired someone to burn down the Reichstag. With no one knowing he did it at the time, the public assumed that the enemy burned down the political building... thus Adolf Hitler gaining full power. With this endless power, he and Natizi's party ruled till his ultimate death of suicide. -
Hilter Olympics(1936 summer olympics)
Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the fact that they were targeting Jews and Romans. Their ideal image was a white man, with blonde hair and blue eyes. With 4 gold medals won that summer, Jesse Owens, a black american man, surpassed all of Germany's ideal men and represented his country with the american salute. -
German invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. -
Tripartite pact Signed
Germany, Italy, and Japan(the access powers) made an agreement to create a defense alliance between the countries. This was intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict. -
Natzi Established Gas chambers at Aushwitz
The gas chambers were originally started by experiment which led to them being used in the morgue at crematorium I in the main camp which adapted for use of a gas chamber. Several hundred people at a time could be killed in this room.
The victims originally were people with disabilities but it eventually turned into a way to exterminate Jewish people and other prisoners. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. After this attack, the United States entered WWII and eventually dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in response to this attack. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. It was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps. The American government used this as a response to the attack on pearl harbor caused by Japan -
Axis Powers Surrender: Italy
Italy was the first partner to give up. Six weeks after leaders of the Italian Fascist Party deposed Fascist leader and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. -
D-day
An American attack to support the British in the fight against the german Natzi's on Normandy beach. The reason for this was because Hitler had every beach blocked there was no way to get into the land that the Nazis had taken over in Europe. Even due to the high death number, ultimetly they were able to get a base set up and begin going into Hilter's newly claimed land. -
Iwo Jima
In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it's believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines. With this battle lasting 5 weeks, it was shown to be very strategically necessary for the United States war effort. -
Axis powers surrender: Germany
General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed a document surrendering all of the German military forces, which would take effect on the next day. Thus ending all but WW11 in Europe. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. This bomb was known at "little boy" -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
A second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, the bomb weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast. This limited the destruction to a 2.6 square mile radius. This bomb was also known and called "fat-man" -
Axis Powers Surrender: Japan
The main reason for their surrender was the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and the end of WW11.