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13. Attack Of Manchuria
The Japanese took over Manchuria because they were rich in iron and coal. The Japanese set up a puppet government. This attack was the first direct challenge to the League of Nations. This lead to the Japanese withdrawing from the Leagues in 1933. -
11. Kristallnacht
Nazi soldiers destroyed jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues all over Germany. With that they also murdered 100 jews. It is called the "Night of Broken Glass" because the streets were covered with broken glass. -
1. Invasion Of Poland
Hitler suprised attack Poland's aircraft and invaded the polish on the ground with bombs, tanks and millions of soldiers. The bombing destroyed polands capital city Warsaw. Poland eventually could not defend themselves and got taken over by Germany. -
2. Soviet Union Invaded E. Poland
On September 17, Stalin went after the east of Poland. Stalin took over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuanaia easily without a struggle. Then Stalin sent 1 million troops to take over Finand. Stalin overestimated the Finns and the winter. The Soviets struggled alot in the winter but finally won through the many soldiers they had. -
3. France Surrenders
Italy and Hitler joined forces to take down France. Italy attacked France from the south and Paris fell into the German's control. On June 22,1940 France surrendered. The germans took control of the northern part of the country and left the southern part to a puppet government. -
14. Alliance With Italy And Germany
Italy started of neutral at the beginning of the war. Italy wanted to join Germany so they could share Germany's victories. Once they declared war on France and Great britain, Italy became one of Germans most important Axis Allies. -
5. Lend Lease Act
President Roosevelt persuaded the Congress to allow allies to buy American arms. Under this lease act, the president can lease arms and other supplies to any counrty that could be of use to the United States. -
4. Battle Of Britain
Germany's airforce started to bomb Britain. German started to focus on Britain's cities especially London. The British had a radar and Enigma a German code breaking machine, these were both very important tools to help them in war. The battle of Britain finally ended on May 10th, 1941. Britain won and Hitler could be blocked. -
7. German Invasion Of Soviet Union
Hitler called his plan Barbarossa. As the germans got closer to invading Soviet Union, they burned everything in the Germans path so that they couldnt have anything. germans isolated Leningrad and people turned to cats,dogs, cattle, rats and much more. More than 1 million people died from this. -
6. Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration. It was used for free trading and the right to allow people to choose their own government. Later on, this charter was used as the Allies peace plan at the end of WWll. -
15. Pearl Harbor
The Japnese dropped bombs in Hawaii. In 2 hours time, the Japanese had sunk or damaged 18 American ships which is almost the whole American fleet. Around 2,400 Americans were killed and more than 1,000 were wounded. The next day, the U.S. declared war on Japn. -
20. Japanese Internment (in US)
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared. Japanese Americans were seen as "enemies". The military began getting Japanese Americans and placing them in relocation camps. From 1941 until 1946 the U.S "imprisoned 31,275 people it wrongly considered "enemies". Most of the prisoners were American citizens of Japanese decent." -
16. Battle Of Midway
Japan went after Midway Island which is west of Hawaii. The Japanese code was broken and the U.S. knew what Japan was coming to do. The U.S. was ready for them and bombed the Japan ships destroying 332 of their planes, all four aircraft carriers and one support ship. Japan had to withdrawl and the battle was over on the 6th of June. -
8. Allied Invasion Of Italy
Churchill and Roosevelt decided to take over Italy first. Allied forces of 180,000 soldiers captured Sicily in August. On September 3rd, Italy was taken over. -
9. D-Day
On this day, the French, British, American and Canadian troops all fought onto a 60 mile beach in Normandy. They all fought the German forces. 3,ooo soldiers died on the American side. Even though there were many casualties, the Germans finally surrendered. -
10. German's Surrender
Hitler and his wife both killed themselves when the war was starting to come to an end because they were loosing. President Eisenhower accepted the "unconditional surrender of the Third Reich from the German military." On May 8th in Berlin the surrender of the Nazi's was officially signed. -
18. Bombing Of Hiroshima
The U.S. warned Japan to stop and surrender. If the Japanese didn't surrender then, Truman said they would expect "rain of ruin from the air". The Japanese didn't respond so the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Hiroshima has a population of 365,000 people and the bomb killed almost 73,000 people. -
17. Bombing Of Nagasaki
The U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb in Nagasaki Japan. This was 3 days later from Hiroshima. Nagasaki had a population of 200,000 and it killed around 37,500 people. Radiation killed more people later on. -
19. Japanese Surrender
Japan finally surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur. The surrender happend on the American battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The war had finally ended. -
12. Nuremberg Laws
This was after the Holocaust and countries were trying to recover politically and economically. To make sure this would never happen again, they put 22 Nazi leaders on trial which were charged and 12 of the leaders were sentenced to death.
