World War II

1. Hitler annex Austria into Germany, 1938

2. France and Britain declared war on Germany, 1938

3. Germany uses blitzkrieg to take much of Western Europe.

4. Germany makes air attack on Britain, 1940

5. Germany, Italy, and Japan create Axis Alliance, 1940

6. Axis Powers attack Russia, 1941

7. United States join the war with Allies, 1941

8. U.S. defeat Japanese at Battle of Midway, 1942

9. Allies invade and Sicily, 1942

10. Italy surrenders to Allies, 1943

11. Germans lose Battle of the Bulge, 1944

12. Adolf Hitler commits suicide, 1945

13. Germany surrenders to Allies, 1945

14. Japan surrenders to Allies, 1945

15. Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany, 1933

16. Germany and Italy sign Rome-Berlin Treaty, 1936

17. Germany and Japan sign Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936

18. Japan invades China, 1937

19. Germany invades Poland, 1938 started World War II

20. Germany invades Denmark and Norway, 1940

21. Italy enters war as Axis Member, 1940

22. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, 1941

23. D-Day and Normandy invasions, 1944

24. Allies invade France to push Germans out, 1944

25. U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 1945

26. U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, 1945