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Adolf Hitler becomes chancller of Germany
This is important because hitler is the one who killed many jews and others in concentration and death camps. He also tried to make the perfect race by doing these things. -
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Rome-Berlin axis treaty
planning to draw fascist Italy into an alliance with Nazi Germany. This alliance contained a protocol committing Germany and Italy to follow a common foreign policy. Thereafter, Germany and her partners in military aggression would be known as the Axis powers. -
anti-comintern pact
The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact between Germany and the Empire of Japan. this made germany more powerful and looked better. -
germany invades poland
This is where germany invades poland.... after this there started to be concentration and death camps. the nazis pretty much took over poland and started making them suffer (jews) -
germany takes france
the Battle of France was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, defeating primarily French forces. this also made germany more and more powerful allowing them to keep on taking over. -
Italy joins the war
The Italian attack on British forces in Egypt was initially to coincide with Operation Sealion, the proposed-but-never-attempted German sea invasion of Britain in 1940. -
pearl harbor
this is what made the u.s. join wwII. This was very bad bombing it did great damage and killed many..... -
germany attacks russia
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. From the beginning of operational planning, German military and police authorities intended to wage a war against the Communist state as well as the Jews of the Soviet Union. -
battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific -
italians surrenders
On this day in 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted with Operation Axis, the Allies with Operation Avalanche. (The Germans too snapped into action. Ever since Mussolini had begun to falter, Hitler had been making plans to invade Italy to keep the Allies from gaining a foothold that would situate them within easy reach of the German-occupied Balkans.) -
D-Day
more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
battle of the bulge
Attacking through the Ardennes Forest in eastern Belgium on December 16, hundreds of German tanks and several hundred thousand German troops broke through the thinly held American lines. By December 26, it was clear that the German advance had been halted short of its objective, the Meuse River. -
germany surrenders
this was the end of nazi germany taking over everthing and making the perfect race. At first, General Jodl hoped to limit the terms of German surrender to only those forces still fighting the Western Allies. But General Dwight Eisenhower demanded complete surrender of all German forces. this was the end of World War II. -
hiroshima and nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
japan surrenders
japans surrender lead to the end of World War II. The invasion of Japan promised to be the bloodiest seaborne attack of all time, conceivably 10 times as costly as the Normandy invasion in terms of Allied casualties.
