World War One Ends The Great Depression Begins

(Nazi) National Socialist German Worker’s Party begins.Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Hitler writes Mein Kampf. In this book he expressed….

Rome-Berlin Axis is signed

League of Nations is formed.

Italy invades Ethiopia

Kellogg-Briand Pact is formed.

Japanese Invade Manchuria

Germany invades the Rhineland

Japan, Germany & Italy sign the Anti-Comintern Treaty

Munich ConferenceNazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

British leader Neville Chamberlain announced “Peace in our time”.

British and French troops prepare for war after Czechoslovakia is seized by Germany.

Germany invades Poland. WWII begins.

Britain and France declare war on Germany.

Churchill becomes leader of England (Britain)

Soviets invade Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Germany invades France, take Paris

Mussolini invades Egypt and Greece

The Battle of Britain

FDR signs the Lend-Lease Act

Hitler seizes the Balkans: Romania, Bulgaria Hungary and Yugoslavia

Nazis begin the “Final Solution” of mass murder

Germany Invades the Soviet Union

Nazis begin to sterilize and kill the “unfit” (handicapped, etc.)

Destruction of the synagogues

. Buchenwald is liberated 1945

The first concentration camp, Dachau, is opened.

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

Auschwitz opens

Japanese expansion in Asia

Japanese attack U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

U.S. Declares War

German military leader Rommel (“Desert Fox”) is defeated in North Africa.

Italy is invaded by the Allies. Mussolini resigns.

U.S. defeats the Japanese in the Battle of Midway

General Douglas MacArthur defeats the Japanese in the Philippines.

D-Day “Operation Overload”

Battle of the Bulge Mussolini is hung

Hitler commits suicide.German High Command Surrender. Victory for the Allies in Europe.

Battle for Okinawa, Japan.

Battle for Iwo Jima.

Japanese Kamikazi Attacks Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta.

Potsdam Conference

Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

V-J Day, Japan Surrendered.

Nuremberg Trials, Germany.

United Nations is formed.