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The Major Events of World War Two

The Major Events of World War Two

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Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.

Nov 19, 1945

After the war, some of those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to trial. Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judge...

Truman orders atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Aug 5, 1945

Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British

Apr 14, 1945

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was voluntarily turned over to the Allied 21st Army Group, a combined British-Canadian unit, on April 15, 1945 by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the man who ...

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta

Feb 4, 1945

On February 4th to 11 February 1945 the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) convened near Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula. It was the second of three wartime conferences among the major Allied...

The Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

The japanese were planning to attack Midway until the code breakers for the US found out. The japanese continued with theri plan, but the US was prepared and the Japanese went strait into an ambush...

The Battle of the Coral Sea

Mar 1942

This battle occured when the United Stes de-coded Japanese messages and they realized Japan was about to attack New Guinea. Thus the US sent two carriers to intercept the Japanese at the Coral Sea

Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 6, 1941

The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is about to attack. At 6 a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes takes off from...

German troops occupy the Sudetenland.

Sep 30, 1938

The Sudetenland was occupied by Germany between October 1 and October 10, 1938. This unification with the Third Reich was followed by the flight or expulsion of most of the region's Czech populatio...

Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

Aug 18, 1934

On August 19, about 95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million votes of approval (90 percent of the vote). Thus Adolf Hitler could claim he was Führer o...

Germany quits the League of Nations.

Oct 13, 1933

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 29, 1933

On the night of January 30, 1933, the Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.

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