Hiroshima blast

World War II

  • Versailles Treaty (everyone, political, economic)

  • France occupies the Ruhr (FR, GE)

  • The Locarno Agreements

  • Japan occupies Manchuria

  • Onset of the Great Depression in Europe

  • Hitler comes to power (Germany, PRES)

  • Germany Withdraws from the League of Nations

  • Hitler renounces disarmament, starts an air force, begins conscription

  • Mussolini attacks Ethiopia

  • Germany reoccupies and remilitarizes the Rhineland

  • Outbreak of Spansh Civil War

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Anschluss with Austria (Germany)

  • Munich conference and the partition fo Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler occupies Prague; France and Great Britain guarantee Polish independence

  • Nazi-Soviet pact

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Germany and SU invade Poland

  • Soviet Union invades Finland

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France

  • Fall of France

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Churchill and Roosevelt meet of Newfoundland to sign Atlantic Charter

  • Germany invades the soviet Uinon

  • Japan takes indochina

  • Japan attacks Pearl harbor, US enters war vs Axis powers

  • Battle of Midway island

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • American, British, and Soviet foreign ministers meet in moscow

  • Churchill, Roosevelt, adn Stalin meet at tehran

  • Allies take Sicily, land in italy

  • Churchill meets with Stalin in Moscow

  • Allies land in Normandy

  • Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet at Yalta

  • Attlee, Stalin, and Truman meet at Potsdam

  • Germany surrenders

  • Atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Japan formally surrenders