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This treaty was signed at the end of WWI. the Treaty of Versailles subjected Germany to strict punitive measures. The treaty of Versailles makes Germany really poor and Hitler blames the Jewish people running the banks and money institutions. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed as Germany's new chancellor. -
Hitler saw the 1936 Games as an opportunity to promote his Nazi Party paper, the Völkischer Beobachter, that says that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games. -
German troops invaded Poland, triggering World War II. In response to the invasion, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. -
The invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. -
The German cruiser Admiral Hipper sank the British destroyer Glowworm in the Norwegian Sea. -
Alliance of the Axis Powers- Germany, Italy, Japan -
After September 5, 1941 the morgue at crematorium I in the main camp was adapted for use as a gas chamber. Several hundred people at a time could be killed in this room. -
The island of Oahu, Hawaii was attacked by 177 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
Japanese-American West Coast residents had a forced evacuation and detention on a 48-hour notice. -
The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice that was signed on 3 September 1943 between Italy and the US and UK during World War II. It was made public five days later. -
A battle where the United States Marine Corps and Navy captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
"The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at Reims in northeastern France." archives.gov -
the United States dropped two atomic bombs over 2 Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
On this day, the surrender was officially signed by Emperor Hirohito.