WWII WAR ON TWO FRONTS.

THESE ARE PLACES THAT THE MAIN EVENTS OF WWII TOOK PLACE IN

1933 JANUARY 30: ADOLF HITLER BECAME CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY

• On this day in 1933, president Paul Von Hinderburg names Adolf Hitler
• Leader of führerof the national sociList german worker party as chancellor of
• Germany.

1936 OCTOBER 25

• Nazi germany and fascist Italy form the rome-berlin axis treaty

1936 NOVEMBER 25

• Nazi germany and imperial japan sign the anti- comintern pact
• This is a pact against communism and Russia

1937 JULY 7

• Japan invades china

1939 SEPTEMBER 3

• Germany invades poland
• World war II begins

1939 SEPTEMBER 3

• France and great britain declare war on germany

1940 APRIL 9

• Germany invades and takes control of denmark and norway

1940 MAY 19 TO JUNE 22

• Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg
• Meaning lightning war to take over much of western Europe
• Incuding the netherlands, belguim, and northern france

1940 SEPTEMBER 22

• Germany, Italy,and japan sign the Tripartite Pact
• This created the Axis alliance

1941 JUNE 22

• Germany and the axis powers attack Russia
• They attacked with over 4 million troops

1941 DECEMBER 7

• The japanese attack the us navy in pearl harbor
• The next day the united states enters the war
• They decide to join the side of the allies

1942 JUNE 4

• The us navy defeats the Japanese navy at the battle of midway

1944 JUNE 6

• D-day and the normandy invasion
• Allied forces invade france and push back the germans
• resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.

1944 DECEMBER 16

• The germans launch a large attack
• Thus battle is called battle of the bulge
• They lose to the allies sealing the fate of the german army

1945 APRIL 30

• Adolf hitler commits suicide
• He knew that germany and the Axis powers had lost the war

1945 MAY 7

• Germany surrenders to the allies

1945 AUGUST 6

• The united states drops the atomic bomb
• They drop them on hiroshima, japan
• The city is devastated

1945 AUGUST 9

• Another atomic bomb is droped
• This bomb is droped on nagasaki, japan

1945 SEPTEMBER 2

• Japan surrenders to the US general douglass macArthur and the allies