1. Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
Japanese Kamikazi Attacks
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta.
Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
Potsdam Conference

2. Germany invades the Rhineland
Japan, Germany & Italy sign the Anti-Comintern Treaty
Japanese Invade Manchuria

3. The Great Depression Begins
Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
(Nazi) National Socialist German Worker’s Party begins.

4. Hitler writes Mein Kampf.
Rome-Berlin Axis is signed
Italy invades Ethiopia

5. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Munich Conference
British leader Neville Chamberlain announced “Peace in our time”.

6. Britain and France declare war on Germany.
British and French troops prepare for war after Czechoslovakia is seized by Germany.
Britain and France declare war on Germany.
Germany invades Poland. WWII begins.
Churchill becomes leader of England (Britain)

7. Germany invades France, take Paris
Soviets invade Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Germany invades France, take Paris
Mussolini invades Egypt and Greece

8. Nazis begin the “Final Solution” of mass murder
The Battle of Britain
FDR signs the Lend-Lease Act
Nazis begin the “Final Solution” of mass murder
Hitler seizes the Balkans: Romania, Bulgaria Hungary and Yugoslavia

9. Germany Invades the Soviet Union
Nazis begin to sterilize and kill the “unfit” (handicapped, etc.)
Destruction of the Jewsh synagogues

10. D-Day “Operation Overload”
General Douglas MacArthur defeats the Japanese in the Philippines.
D-Day “Operation Overload”
Battle of the Bulge
Mussolini is hung

11. U.S. Declares War Italy is invaded by the Allies. Mussolini resigns.
German military leader Rommel (“Desert Fox”) is defeated in North Africa.
U.S. Declares War
U.S. defeats the Japanese in the Battle of Midway
Italy is invaded by the Allies. Mussolini resigns.

12. Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
The first concentration camp, Dachau, is opened.
. Buchenwald is liberated 1945
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

13. Japanese attack U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Auschwitz opens
Japanese attack U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japanese expansion in Asia

14. Battle for Okinawa, Japan.
German High Command Surrender. Victory for the Allies in Europe.
Hitler commits suicide.
Battle for Iwo Jima.
Battle for Okinawa, Japan.

15. V-J Day, Japan Surrendered.
Nuremberg Trials, Germany.
V-J Day, Japan Surrendered.
United Nations is formed.