Tierra+WWII

media type="custom" key="6119657"Event 1: January 1933 Hitler

[] Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany. He abolishes democracy and becomes a dictator. Japan and Germany leave the League of Nations. He had most of the power in Germany.

Event 2: September 7, 1939 in Poland

[] The war began and Germany and Russia sign non-aggression pact, secretly agreeing to invade Poland and share it. German U-boats and battleships sail to the Atlantic Ocean for war.

Event 3: December 7, 1941 Hawaii

[] The Japanese Navy attacks Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and the US joins the war. Germany did not defeat Russia. The United join the war later on in that day on December 8. Event 4: December 7, 1941 USS Arizona

[] The USS Arizona many people lost there lives 2,388 us soldiers were killed 1,718 soldiers were wounded. They were also 1,177 crew members as the boat caped sized. A 184 ft long memorial structure was built over the USS Arizona.

Event 5: December 11, 1941 Declare war on the United States [] Italy and Germany later declare war on the United States.h

Event 6: June 7, 1994 D-Day [] More than 1  60,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

Event 7: May 8, 1945 V-Day [] Victory day is when Japan surrender ending World War II. A formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bayh Japan aboard the battleshipUSS Mssouri on September 2 1945. In Japan the day usually is known as the memorial day for the end of the war.

Event 8: May 8, 1945 Germany surrenders

[] On the day before his death all German troops in Italy laid down their arms. On May 4, German forces in Holland, Denmark and northwest Germany surrendered to British Field Marshall Montgomery. On May 6, Donitz authorized General Alfred Jodl to "conclude an armistice agreement" with General Eisenhower.

Event 9: August 5, 1945 Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima [] In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. The bomber's primary target was the city of Hiroshima, located on the deltas of southwestern Honshu Island facing the Inland Sea. Hiroshima had a civilian population of almost 300,000 and was an important military center, containing about 43,000 soldiers.

Event 10: August 14, 1945 Japan surrenders

[] When Japan surrender it brought hostilities. The, the Imperial Japanese Navy had effectively no capacity to conduct operations, and an Allied invasuion of Japan was imminent. While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end Japan leaders at the Supereme Council for the the Direction of the war the Big Six were privately making entreaties to the Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms favorable to the Japanese