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One of the most important treaties for ending World War 1. 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Paul Von Hindenburg, President of Germany, named Hitler the Chancellor of Germany. -
Germany hosted the Summer Olympics in 1936 to spread Nazi propaganda. Jessie Owens stands above all the blond hair, blue-eyed Germans. -
A group of agreements between Germany, Japan, and Italy to create a defense alliance and to keep the US out of War World 2 -
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded the Republic of Poland. -
Japan bombs an Amerian Base in Pearl Harbor. A day later America joins the Allies -
Jews and other groups of people prosecuted by Hitler are sent to Auschwitz to be killed by Zyklon B Gas. -
120,000 Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps around the US. This was done to keep them from helping their Japanese family and friends. -
Italy Surrenders to the Allies -
America's forces storm the beaches of Normandy. Ultimately killing 12,000 soldiers from the Allies. This event helped America take hold of land in Europe so that they could start fighting land battles. -
US marines fought Japanese soldiers on the island of Iwo Jima. This is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands. -
Hitler commits suicide before the Soviet forces found him. This weakened German morale causing them to surrender a week later. -
Germany surrenders to the Allies at Reims and after Hitler commits suicide and the Soviets take Berlin -
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. -
The second atomic bomb from America is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan -
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan is forced to surrender to the Allies, Ending the war.