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The Attack on Manchuria
China's North east province of Manchuria flourished with iron and coal and housed many Japanese businesses. The Japanese took over Manchuria even after the parliament objected to doing so. The army set up a puppet government in Manchuria. Soon after large groups of Japanese engineers and technicians arrived to build factories and set mines. This was also known as the first direct challenge to the league of nations. -
The alliance between Italy and Germany
The rapid success of Germany convinced Mussolini that an alliance with germany was the best thing to do. In October of 1936 the two powerful dictators came up with the Rome-Berlin Axis. This was an agreement between the two countries for alliance. Germany soon added Japan to the agreement. The three countries became know as the Axis powers. -
Kristallnacht
Also know as Night of Broken Glass, this brutal night was all started because a 17 year old jewish boy named Herschel attepted to avenge his fathers deportation to Poland. When the news of Herschel shooting an employee of the German Embassy got to the nazi officials, they acted out by attacking jewish homes killing over 100 jews. It got the name Night of Broken Glass from all the shattered glass on the streets that night. -
The Invasion of Poland
The invasion of poland was a surprise attack made on the dawn of September 1st. German tanks and troops got ready as the airplanes rained bombs over poland. Bombs targeted the capital city of Warsaw which crumbled from the attack. The invasion unleashed WWII -
The Invasion of E. Poland by the Soviet Union
After the secret agreement with Hitler, Stalin sent troops from the soviet union to take over the Eastern half of Poland. This took place on September 17, 1939. The troops then started taking over Lithuania, Lativia and Estionia along with Finland. -
France Surrenders
Hitler made his way through multiple countries like Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. This was all part of a plan to distract the countries from France which was Hitler's real target. The Germans made their way inbetween the Maginot line and made it to France's Northern coast within ten days. After the Battle of Dunkirk in which the Germans pinned the French troops up against the Northern coast, France seemed almost doomed. Italy saw this as a perfect chance to defeat France and attacked them. -
The Battle of Britian
Great Britian was alone to fight the Nazis after the fall of France. Wiston Churchill the new Britian Prime Minister stated the nation would never give in. The Germans turned to invading Britian and sent bombs taking down multiple cities including London. The battle started on september 7, 19940 and ceased on May 10, 1941 -
The Lend Lease Act
This act stated that the president of The United States could lend or sell arms and any other important supplies to any country close to the country. In the summer of 1941, Hitler had found out that the U.S was escorting British ships with arms that were bought from America. When he found out, he ordered submarines to sink all the cargo ships that they saw. -
German Invasion of the Soviet Union
The plan was also know as operation Barbarossa. The invasion took weeks when the Germans had finally 500 miles into the country. When the Russians retreated, the burned everything with their tactic of Scorched earth. By September 8, 1941, Germany had isolated the city of Leningrad and planned to starve the people who lived there. Due to the stubbornness of the city, Hitler turned to moscow the capital city. The harsh winter weather caused many Germans to retreat and they were defeated in 1943 -
The Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Chruchill secretly met on a battleship off the coast of Newfoundland on August 9, 1941 to discuss the Atlantic Charter. The charter allowed free trade among nations and the right for the people to choose their government. this later served as the peace plan by the allies to end WWII. -
Pearl Harbor
Before the attack on December 7, 1941, the Americans had decoded a Japanese message saying that they might attack america. Everyone in Hawaii had woken up to the sound of bombs being dropped on them. Within a couple hours, the Japanese had sunken or damaged 18 ships in total and around 2,400 Americans were killed. More than 1,00 people were injured and out of the 18 ships, 8 were United States battle ships. The next day the United States declared war on Japan. -
Japanese Internment in the U.S
The event of Japanese internment camps in the United States led to many Japanese Americans being taken from their homes and put into internment camps. This was all due to the bombing of pear harbor and the fact that Americans thought the Japanese people in their country would strike against them. The camps had a military like feel and most of them were enclosed with barbed wire. -
The Battle of Midway
In June of 1942, another Japanese code was broken and stated that the Japanese fleet was making their way to the island of Midway. The U.S Pacific fleet was prepared and allowed the Japanese planes to soar over the island. While that happened, American carrier planes attacked the Japanese ships. The strategy helped destroy 322 Japanese planes, all of the four aircraft carriers and one support ship. The Japanese said that the battle was a success to avenge Pearl Harbor. -
The invasion of Italy by the allies
In January of 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill met in Morocco and decided to invade Italy. The allied forces of 180,00 soldiers made it to sicily and took it from the German and Italian troops before August of that year. The Germans retreated to the north and restored Mussolini's power which was taken along with Sicily. The fighting then continued until Germany fell in 1945. -
D-Day
D-Day was the name chosen for the first day that the invasion of Normandy took place. The invasion of Normandy was code named Operation Overlord and went down as the greatest land and sea attack in history. On the morning of June 6, 1944, British, American, French and Canadian forces fought their way through the beach of Normandy. The Germans ended up retreating and the allied troops made their way to paris liberating France, Belgium, luxembourg and most of the netherlands. -
The surrender of Germany
After the battle of the Bulge, the allies made their way to Germany. Over 3 million allied soldiers approached Berlin. 6 million soliders from the Soviet Union made their way to Berlin from the east. The soviets soon surrounded the capital city with their artillery. While that took place, hitler and his wife who he had just married were preparing for their deaths. General Eisenhower received a surrender of the Third Reich from Germany's army on May 7, 1945. it was signed officially the next day. -
The bombing of Hiroshima
The president of the United States at the time of this event proposed that if japan surrendered, that nothing bad would happen. Japan did not reply to the proposal which caused the U.S. to act. The United States dropped a very powerful and radioactive bomb called an Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Of the 350,000 inhabitants of the city, around 73,000 people died in the attack. The radiation ended up killing many more as the days went by. -
The bombing of Nagasaki
Three days after the attack on Hiroshima, the Japanese still stood. The United States took action once again and decided to drop one of the very powerful Atomic boms on another Japanese city known as Nagasaki. The city was inhabited by around 200,000 people. The bomb killed about 37,500 people and many more died from radiation as the days went by. -
The Japanese surrender
Due to all the damage done with the atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese decided to surrender. This took place on board the United States battleship named the Missouri in the bay of Tokyo. The surrender of Japan led to the end of the second world war. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nazis started by passing laws keeping Jewish people from the right to hold public office. Later on in 1945, the Nuremberg laws were passed. These laws kept the Jewish citizens from rights such as German citizenship, having certain jobs or even a job at all and having property. Also to make Jewish people recognizable from other citizens, they were forced to wear a bright yellow star on their clothes.
