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Japan invades Manchuria
Began on September 19th, 1931, when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Invasion of Poland
On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Peearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. This eventually drove us in World War II. -
Kiev
Russia recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. -
Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. Happened on Tuesday, June 6th, 1944(D-Day). Landings were conducted in two phases: an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free French airborne troops and an amphibious landing. This drove us into World War II. -
MacArthur flees
After advancing island by island acorss the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Phillippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942. After Pearl Harbor was bombed, Japan launched its invasion of the Phillippines. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commited suicide by gunshot on April 30, 1945, in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva, commited suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. Germany's military situation was on the verge of total collapse. -
V-E Day
Was the public holiday celebrated on May 8th, 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
The Bombing of Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Surrender of Japan
The surrender of the Empire of Japan brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. It was a big day for the United States.
