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Hitler announced the creation of a new air force in Germany.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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The invasion initiates World War II in the Pacific.
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They also signed a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
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This invasion initiates World War II in Europe.
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The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced that unless Germany agreed to withdraw their recent aggression against Poland, 'a state of war would exist between the two countries.
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The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. On September 28, 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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Germans bomb British cities. This air war, which is known as the Battle of Britain, ended in defeat for Nazi Germany on October 31, 1940.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Greece and Yugoslavia are captured by Germany.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in the United States. The provoked the United States to enter the war.
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Germany declared war upon the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was formally neutral during World War II.
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The Battle of Coral Sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. American naval forces stopped Japanese advance and saved Australia from the threat of invasion.
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The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The United States won this battle. U.S. planes destroyed 4 attacking Japanese aircraft carriers and defeated the Japanese navy. This was a major turning point of the war in Asia.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Stalingrad was a major industrial center on Volga. Hitler's best unit, the German Sixth Army, was lost. This signified that the Germans could lose.
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The Tunisia Campaign was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II.
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The Battle of Kursk was a battle between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union. Soviets defeated the Germans at the Battle of Kursk.
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Allied forces under U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower landed on the Narmandy beaches in history's greatest naval invasion. This was known as Operation Overlord. Allies fought their way past underwater mines, barbed wire, and horrible machine gun fire.
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Benito Mussolini was shot by Italian partisans, or resistance fighters.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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The German commander surrendered and the war in Europe is over.
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VE Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb ("Little Boy") on Hiroshima in Japan.
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A second atomic bomb ("Fat Man") was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. These were the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war.
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This ended World War II.
