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The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. The treaty was one of several that officially ended five years of conflict known as the Great War—World War I. -
Adolf Hitler officially became the new chancellor of Germany -
Olympics held that Hitler had started in Berlin. -
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany. -
Germany decided to make gas chambers in order to kill the captured. -
It created a defense alliance between the countries Germany, Italy, and Japan and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. -
President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. -
The government had so called evaporated and they had no choice but to surrender. -
American troops stormed the beaches of France to try and get American forces in Europe soil. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field. -
Hitler committed suicide after being hunted by Soviet troops and being overwhelmed -
Germany signs an unconditional surrender at the headquarters of US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander of Allied forces in northwest Europe. After this the surrender takes place on May 8th. -
They hit them with one so that they would surrender and then it didn't happen, they waited a few days and they still didn't, so they dropped another one. -
Japanese officials signed the Instrument of Surrender.