World War II

1. Germany invades Poland which starts war

1.1. september 1939

2. germany invades Norway and Denmark in april 1940

3. may 1940 Germany invades Belgium and the Netherlands

4. germany bombs Britain in July

5. Japan bombs pearl harbor where then the us declares war on Japan

6. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

7. Japan signs surrender agreement which ends war

8. war lasted from 1939-1945

9. approx. 11 million people killed from the holocaust alone

10. Hitler wanted world domination

11. 45-60 million people were killed

12. 6 million jews murdered because of nazi concentration camps

13. Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

13.1. incited a frenzy of worry in London and Paris

14. September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west

14.1. started WWII