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There was a major Serbian holiday, and Austria sent a high ranking offical the Archduke Franz
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A terrosist group, named the black hand wanted to assaniate the Archduke and Gavrillo Pincip shot him.
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After murdering the Archduke, Princip was about to turn the gun on himself but then he was seized and arrested
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Austria-Hungaru with the support of Germany sent Serbia an ultimatum. The setrbians propose and atribation as a solution to their problem . However they start to mobilize.
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Austria-Hungary seperates political bonds with Serbia and begins to mobilize troops
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Due to Serbia not agreeing to the ultimatum, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Russia begins to mobilize because of Austria's attack on Serbia
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Russia begins to mobilze and Germany orders Russia to stop
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Germany declares war on Russian, France and Belgium begin to fully mobilize.
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France mobilizes to help Russia to fight Germany
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Germany declares war on France
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Germany invades through neutral Belgium to invade France.
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Germany starts the Schlieffen plan to attack France through neutral Belgium
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Britain sends Germany an ultimatum to withdraw from Belgium but Germany rejects it and then Britain declares war on Germany.
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Britain declared war against Germany this means that all dominions under the British empire have to fight against the triple allaince which is Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa
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On October 29, 1929, the American stock market crashed which leads to the great depression
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Even though Hitler didn't become president, he was appointed as chancellor on January 30, 1933
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The Nuremberg laws, were two laws which left out Jews from German life and they were stripped of their rights and overall were considered less than humans
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In the 1890's, Italy tried to conquer Ethiopia, however they were unsuccessful. Italy invaded Ethiopia and was successful because of the Ethiopian army being ill equipped and poorly trained. This was also known as the Italo-Ethiopian War
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On November 25, 1936, Italy, Germany & Japan signed Anti-Comintern Pact, against Russia
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On March 12, 1938, Hitler and the Nazi army took over Austria without firing a single bullet.
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Due to Czechoslovakia already in fear of Hitler and his army invading Austria, he took this as an advantage and planned and fully invaded Czechoslovakia
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The Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on August 23, 1939 which says that they won't take military action against each other for the next ten years
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at 4:45 am, 1.5 million nazi soldiers invaded Poland, taking over Poland. This was a major step in German expansion.
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Since Britain promised Poland military protection during an attack, therefore Britain and France declared war on Germany
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The battle of the Atlantic was the war's longest continuous campaign, German U-boats and warships and later having Italian submarines, had one and only objective was to destroy the transporting of allied goods such as weapons and food.
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Even though Canada was going to join the war and help Britain, Canada waited to declare war to prove they are independent.
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The Battle of Britain was a very large air campaign fought over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940.
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Operation Barbarossa also known as the invasion of Soviet Union was the Nazi Germany invasion on Soviet Union during WWII
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, was also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was the attack was lead by Japanese Imperial General Headquarters on Hawaii. .
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The battle of El Alemain fought in the deserts of South Africa
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The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle of Dieppe, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The Dieppe Raid was one of the most devastating and bloody chapters in Canadian military history. Of the 4,963 Canadians who embarked from England for the operation, only 2,210 returned, and many of them were wounded. Casualties totalled 3,367, including 916 dead and 1,946 prisoners of war.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which, the Nazi's and its allies combated against the Soviet Union for control of the Stalingrad the city in Southern Russia.
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The Italian campaign of the second world war, was the name of the allied operations which took place in and around Italy
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D-Day also known as Normandy Landings, was the allied invasion of Normandy.
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On May 8, 1945, Germany surrenders to the allies and lose the war
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On August 6, 1945 during World War II (1939-45) an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb.
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On August 9, 1945 America dropped their second atomic bomb on the city of Nagaski
