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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
Hitler becomes Chancellor. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The supposed one thousand year Reich had started. But it would be another nineteen months before Hitler achieved absolute power. -
Kristallnacht
A attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
On October 27, familys and over 15,000 other Jews originally from Poland had been expelled from Germany without any warning. They were forcibly transported by train in boxcars then dumped at the Polish border. -
Germany invades Poland.
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
france surrenders to germany.
On This Day: France Surrenders to Nazi Germany. On June 22, 1940, the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe.Jun 22, 2011 -
Franklin Roosevelt proposes Lend-Lease Program
The Lend-Lease Act, approved by Congress in March 1941, gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating America's official position of neutrality. By 1945 the Lend-Lease program had cost $49.1 billion, and over 40 nations had received aid in its name. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Auschwitz Liberated.
Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 27, 1945. Prisoners re-enact liberation from Auschwitz main camp, Feb. 1945. The Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp and the Monowitz labor camp were liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front, under the command of Marshal Koniev, on January 27, 1945. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb Fat Man was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
