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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931. The Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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This was a colonial war between October 1935 to 1939 between the armed forces of Italy the Ethiopian Empire.
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Olympic games held in Nazi Germany between 8/1/1936 and 8/16/1936
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Sudetenland is given to Hitler in an attempt of appeasement
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Refers to the annexation of Austria into Germany.
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Hitler invades Poland which incites war with the soviet union. Hitler unleashes blitzkrieg war tactics
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Royal air force defends Britain from invading Germans.
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The Tripartite Pact was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin.
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A joint declaration from Great Britain and the US that set out a vision for the post war world
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Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act provided U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared Americans' entitlement to four freedoms. Speech, Worship, from want, and freedom from want.
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Also known as operation Barbarossa, day Germany attacked the Soviet Union
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Japanese send fighter planes and destroy almost the entire fleet at pearl harbor. Brings the US into WWII
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Naval battle in the pacific theater involving the US and Japan. Occurred six months after Pearl Harbor. Ended in a decisive american victory.
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Allied European strategy for the next step in World War II.
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Strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
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Largest amphibian invasion lever launched by the western allies on the northern coast of France.
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This was the last major German offensive push on the western front
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Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe's postwar reorganization. The purpose of Yalta was the bringing back of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany
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Major battle in which the US captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Chinese Army.
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Major battle in the pacific war. US fought Japanese army on the islands of Okinawa. Code-named Operation Iceberg.
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Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.
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Second atomic bombing site. US dropped this bomb to end the war.
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US drops bombs on the city of Hiroshima in Japan in hopes of stopping the war.
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Japan surrender ending the hostilities of WWII.
