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Munich Conference appeases Hitler
Hitler met in Munich with Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain of Britain, Edouard Daladier of France and Benito Mussolini of Italy to reach a final settlement, and sign the Munich Pact with him. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Hitler Granted the Sundentenland
Leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland. At Czechoslovakia, ehich was the home to many ethnic Germans. -
Nazi Germany Invades Poland, starting WWII
The day before the Nazi had take over the Polish radio station, as the military people had the step toward an attack. Germnay use the date at the use for its invasion of Poland. -
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen. Hitler had been planning his attack since March. Britain and France had sworn to defend Poland. Honoring these obligations, the two countries sent ultimatums to Hitler demanding his withdrawal from Poland. Hitler declined to respond. -
The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east
On this day, The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. -
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
The governments of Germany, Italy and Japan, considering it as a condition precedent of any lasting peace that all nations of the world be given each its own proper place, have decided to stand by and co-operate with one another in regard to their efforts in greater East Asia and regions of Europe respectively wherein it is their prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things calculated to promote the mutual prosperity and welfare of the peoples concerned. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
Japanese planes attacked at the US Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Japanese attack, sank or damaged severely 18 U.S. ships. Four days later, Germany and Italy, allies with Japan and declared war on U.S. -
President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066
Ten weeks after the Japanses bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066. Authorized Permitted military commanders require Japanese American to relocate to interior interment camps away. -
D-Day
General Dwight Eisenshower was the commander of the allied troops. Began the invasion by landing at the five beaches on the northwest coast of France at Normandy. He choosed Omar Bradley to led the first american army to land first. -
Hitler commits suicide.
With the end of World War II imminent and the Russians nearing his underground bunker under the Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shot himself in the head with his pistol, likely after swallowing cyanide, ending his own life. In the same room with Hitler was his new wife, Eva Braun, who ended her life by swallowing a cyanide capsule. After their deaths, SS men carried their bodies up to the Chancellery’s courtyard, covered them with gasoline, and lit them on fire. -
Victory in Europe
German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after they had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. The Britain and the United States had were celebrating for the Victory in Europe. -
Nazi Germany Surrenders in World War II
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
The Atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, killed more than tens thousands. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, in Nagasaki. -
Formal Surrender of Japan
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. -
Japan's formal surrender
In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after acceping the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered. The ceremonies, less than half an hour long, took place on board the battleship USS Missouri, anchored with other United States' and British ships in Tokyo Bay.
