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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (Manchuko)
The Japanese bombed the unprotected city to settle anti-japanese disturbances. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations as a resulted of the criticism of military operations in Manchuria. The Japanese encouraged colonizers to emmigrate to Manchuko, but few responded to the propaganda films that said it was an Asian paradise. -
Hitler made Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany. In 1932, Hitler took a rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people's frustration with economic conditions and the wounds caused by the defeat in the Great War and the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty. -
The Munich Pact
It was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was also referred to as 'The Night of Broken Glass' and was an attack against the Jews in Germany. Jews were killed and the attack left the streets covered with broken glass from the Jews stores. The attack was due to the assassination of a German diplomat named Ernst Vom Rath by a Jew resident in Paris. -
Invasion of Poland
It was an invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union. The invasion marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Dunkirk
Dunkirk was an evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England. It was caused by Germany’s invasion of the Low Countries and northern France. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike led by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. It left America with a reason to fight and a passion to win the war in at least a year less than it originally would have. -
Bataan Death March
It resulted from the largest surrender in American history. The American and Filipino soldiers of the United States Army Forces in the Far East had held out for four months against the Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast Asia fell to the Japanese. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was fought over the U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway. It represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were considered equals, and the United States soon took the offensive. -
D-Day
It was the day of the first paratroop drops and amphibious landings on the coast of Normandy, France initiating the Western Allied effort to free mainland Europe from Nazi occupation. It is in the first stage of Operation Overland during WWII. It also turned the tide of the war against Hitler. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was the last major Nazi attack against the Allies in World War II. The battle was also a last ditch attempt by Hitler to divide the Allies in two and demolish their ability to supply themselves. -
Yalta Conference
At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed that the freed nations of Europe would create democratic governments of their own choice and that Germany would be divided into occupation zones. Germany would also pay war reparations, and the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan. -
V E Day
It is the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. The German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan was conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II. The United States was trying to shorten the war and get Japan to surrender (wasn't sucessful until the 2nd bombing). The bomb was dropped in the center of Hiroshima killing over 300,000 people. -
V J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War II. Since then, August 14 has been known as “Victoryover Japan Day" (V J Day).
