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Hitlers Control
Nazi Germany is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Part controlled the country through a dictatorship. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. -
Japan invades China
When Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbor, the United states and China declared war against Japan. China also declared war on Italy and Germany. -
The Anschluss
Germany takes control of Austria. Hitler is violating the Treaty of Versailles. -
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World War 2
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Invasion of Poland
German forces storm Poland on land and from the air. Hitler wants to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. -
The Neutrality Act of 1939
Tried to keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations. -
The Fall of France
The German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
The Battle of Britain
Germany wanted to invade Great Britain, but they needed to destroy their Royal Air Force. Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion. -
U.S. Oil Embargo on Japan
Responding to Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina following an agreement between Japan and Vichy France, the U.S. froze Japanese assets and established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. They destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. -
The Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific. Six months after Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
The day in World War II when Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
The Bataan Death March
The Japanese forced 76,000 Allied soldiers to march 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place in April of 1942 during World War II. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, code-named the Argonaut Conference, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
V-E Day
the day marking the Allied victory in Europe. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
D World War II 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. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on known as fat man. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully stopped the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the communist bloc.
