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Treaty of versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One. The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations (to make amends), disarm (take weapons away) , lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
The people of German were asked to vote on whether or not they would approved the merging of the two offices also of Hitler's new role as Führer (ruthless leader). 95.7% of the German population voted. 89.93% voted in for Hitler. -
"Hitler's Olympics" (1936 summer Olympics)
The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games were a worldwide sporting event, they were a showing of Nazi propaganda, stirring significant conflict. Despite the exclusionary principles of the 1936 Games, countries around the world still agreed to participate. -
Tripartite pact signed
Leaders of the Axis powers( originally called the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, it was a military coalition that was a small group in World War II and fought against the Allies), Japan, Italy and Germany, sign the Tripartite Pact, creating an alliance between the three countries. -
Pearl Harbor
On the morning of 7 December 1941, 177 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States declared war on Japan. Germany and Italy then declared war on the U.S. Starting world war 2. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
The United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western part of the country. -
Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Axis powers surrender
Soviet (government council) forces entered Berlin on April 1945, prompting Hitler to commit suicide. Germany surrendered to the Allies on May 8, 1945, ending the war in Europe. Japan surrendered in August 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marking the end of the Axis and the war itself.