August 6, 1945

A nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan had over 200,000 people died in this event

Japan refused to surrender and as a last act Harry Truman ordered the dropping of Fat Man

https://www.britannica.com/question/Why-did-the-atomic-bombings-of-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-happen#:~:text=It%20is%20possible%20that%20U.S.,by%20displaying%20American%20military%20power

June 28, 1919

Peace document signed by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany

Germany was blamed for all the events of WWI and was forced to give up many rights

https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Versailles-1919

December 1937 - January 1938

It was a mass killing and ravaging committed by the Japanese Soldiers toward the Chinese citizens

Deaths between 100,000 to 300,000

https://www.britannica.com/event/Nanjing-Massacre

August 9, 1945

Harry Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima, over 140,000 people died fro the event

Japan refused to surrender so Harry Truman ordered the bombing

https://www.britannica.com/event/atomic-bombings-of-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki

June 6, 1944 - July 9, 1944

US, British, and Canadian forces all landed in Normandy to invade

By the end, all of northern France was liberated

https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion

September 1, 1939

Over 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland, Over 66,000 Polish soldiers were killed, 133,700 wounded, and 675,000 captured

Hitler considered the Polish people inferior and wanted to take back the land

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/24/the-start-of-the-second-world-war-germany-invades-poland/#:~:text=S%C4%99p%C3%B3lno%20Kraje%C5%84skie%20(Poland)%2C%201%20September%201939.&text=Hitler%20had%20attacked%20Poland%20because,Jewish%20and%20non%2DJewish%20Poles.

December 7, 1941

Hundreds of Japansese planes surprise attacked the US navy base

More than 20 ships and 300 planes were attacked and more than 2,400 people were killed

https://www.history.com/articles/pearl-harbor

1941

The first African American flying unit in the U.S. military

There were 992 pilots, and they flew 1,578 missions

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tuskegee-Airmen

July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943

Over 1.7 to 2 million soldiers and civilians died during the battle

Hitler's sought to control the city of Stalingrad for it's importance

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad

July 16, 1945

The bomb generated an explosive power equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT

Created as part of the Manhattan Project and happened at the Trinity site.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project

April 1, 1945 until June 22, 1945

More than 1,600 ships and 350,000 naval personnel would assemble to form the largest amphibious assault force of World War 2. there has been an estimated count of 240,000 deaths

The island was chosen as a base for launching an invasion on Japan and for blockading the country

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Okinawa

July 10 to October 31, 1940

23,002 British civilians were killed and 32,138 wounded

Hitler planned to invade Britain, but first needed to gain air superiority over the English Channel and destroy the Royal Air Force to pave the way for his invasion

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Britain-European-history-1940

April 1925 - 1945

An elite corps and personal bodyguard of Adolf Hitler

By 1939 the SS, now numbering about 250,000 men

https://www.britannica.com/topic/SS

18 December, 1878 - 5 March, 1953

The leader of the USSR, he was part of the Allies and the Axis

helped implement Communism into the USSR

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Stalin

1942-1945

The Tuskegee Airmen trained in the Great Lakes after graduation

Nearly 200 planes crashed into the Great Lakes during WW2

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18aviatorsdown/history.html

1942-1946

The forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps

The U.S. War Department suspected that Japanese Americans might act as saboteurs

https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment

1942

Dr. Lytle S. Adams was to attach incendiary devices to bats and drop the winged weapons from airplanes

Adams swore that bat bombs would have been more destructive than the atom bombs

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

May 8, 1884 - Dec 26, 1972

The 33rd President of America

Truman Green lit the launching of the atomic bombs

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/trivia/biographical-sketch-harry-truman

April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945

Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany

He has killed over 6 million Jewish people

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler

1941

OE agents in London procured 100 dead rats and stuffed them with plastic explosives and shipped them off to agents in German-occupied France

The idea was that unsuspecting German soldiers would pick up the dead rats and chuck them into the boilers, triggering massive explosions

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

Holocaust survivor, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Elie was 15 when he was captured by the Nazis and sent away to a concentration camp in Poland

He is most famous for his book, Night, which describes his experiences in the Holocaust

TCi Textbook, Pages 426 - 427

1940 - Jan 27, 1945

Over 1.1 million people died in Auschwitz

people primarily arrived in Auschwitz by train

The people died from various methods but the most known method was the gas chambers

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/

1935 - 1945s

a top secret Japanese human experimentation unit Located in Harbin, China

They are known for committing horrific acts against humanity but they were pardoned because they contribution a lot for medical research and the such

June 12, 1929 - 1945

Her family went into hiding on July 6, 1942

She started writing a diary shortly after her 13th birthday

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/

1938-39

German whaling ships were operating far from home, so the idea of establishing an Antarctic base seemed like a good idea

The mountainous region had never been explored and the German scientists named it “Neu-Schwabenland” after the ship

https://www.history.com/articles/hitler-nazi-secret-expedition-antarctica-whale-oil

1930s - 1941

The Gustav cannon is know for being the largest and heaviest mobile artillery cannon ever conceived

it was primarily used during the siege of Sevastopol and used over 30,000 pounds of artillery ammunition the weapon alone is over 1,350 tons

https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-nazi-schwerer-gustav-rail-gun-big-bang-for-the-buck-or-small-spark-for-the-reichsmark/

1943

During World War II, German propaganda emphasized the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied troops, who were depicted as cowards and butchers or brave but misguided

British radio broadcasting was made to disseminate propaganda that would damage enemy morale

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-propaganda/#:~:text=During%20World%20War%20II%20German,attacked%20without%20fear%20of%20death.

August, 1939 - 1946

code breakers helped decipher secret messages from the axis

Marian Rejewski is

A Polish code breaker who worked on recreating the German Enigma cipher machine

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-women-codebreakers-of-world-war-ii#:~:text=Codebreakers%20work%20on%20%22Purple%22%20machines,messages%20during%20World%20War%20II.&text=Frances%20Steen%20was%20one%20of,the%20attack%20on%20Pearl%20Harbor.