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Nuremburg Laws
antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Munich Conference
Leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
At least 91 jews were killed and 30,000 sent to concentration camps. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed or damaged. -
St Louis Affair
Terror increased -
Death Camps
Nazi extermination camps for jewish captives -
German Invasion of Poland
It ended October 6, 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. -
German Invasion of France
The Germans were successful and an armistice was signed dividing France, giving Germany northern and western France, and Italy a small area in southeastern France. -
Dunkirk
The battle was the defence and evacuation of British and Allied forces in Europe. -
Invasion of North Africa
It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts -
Guadalcanal
After six months of hard combat in and around Guadalcanal and dealing with jungle diseases that took a heavy toll of troops on both sides, Allied forces managed to halt the Japanese advance and dissuade them from contesting the control of the island by finally driving the last of the Japanese troops into the sea -
Pearl Harbor
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Wake Island
Occured the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor -
Wannsee Conference
meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee -
Bataan Death March
forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines -
Battle of the Coral Sea
First action in which aircraft carriers engaged in each other and the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other -
Midway
Irreparable damage was inflicted on the Japanese fleet -
Stalingrad
Marked by constant close-quarters combat and lack of regard for military and civilian casualties, it is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. -
Fall of Rome
Allied headquarters were resposible -
Sicily invasion
Codenamed Operation Husky -
Invasion of Italy
The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. -
Tarawa
home to over 50 thousand people -
Tehran Conference
first of the war conferences between the big three Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill -
D-Day
battle with nazis on the beach -
Phillipines
It effectively eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. -
Battle of the Bulge
The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack, during all of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta was the second of the wartime conferences among the Big Three (Britain, United States, and Soviet Union). -
Fire Bombing of Tokyo
estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history. -
Iwo Jima
Major battle in Japan -
Okinawa
Codenamed operation iceburg -
Death of FDR
Suffered a massive stroke and died before he was able to appear at the founding conference of the United Nations -
VE Day
Public holiday to mark the date when the WWII allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Hitler's reign, ending the war in Europe. -
Trinity Test
Conducted by the United States Army in the Jornada del Muerto desert and was the beginning to the Atomic Age. -
Potsdam Conference
Established a post war order, issued peace treaties, and countered the effects of war. -
Hiroshima
atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped -
Enola Gay
first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb -
Nagasaki
united states atomic bomb attack -
VJ Day
The day Japan surrendered effectively ending the war