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• Major Axis Powers

  Germany, Italy, and Japan.
• Axis Powers began to form

  1936
• Adolf Hitler Date of Birth

  April 20, 1889
• Benito Mussolini Date of Birth

  July 29, 1883
• Emperor Hirohito Date of Birth

  April 29, 1901
• Adolf Hitler Date of Death

  April 30, 1945
• Benito Mussolini Date of Death

  April 28, 1945
• Emperor Hirohito Date of Death

  January 7, 1989
• Total Jews killed during the Holocaust

  6 million
• Total killed during the Holocaust

  11 million
• Laws that stripped Jews of their rights and citizenship, and imposed severe restrictions on their daily lives.

  Nuremberg Laws
• Original members of the Allies

  Great Britain, France and Poland
• Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty.


  1936 October 25
• Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party, or the Third Reich, takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany.

  1933 January 30
• Ended World War II

  Treaty of Potsdam
• Gathering of 730 delegates from 44 Allied nations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA created this


  e International Monetary Fund

  e International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• United Nations had this number of original member nations

  51
• 5 permanent Security Council members

  China, France, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and United States.
• Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. This was a pact against communism and Russia.


  1936 November 25
• Japan invades China.


  1937 July 7
• Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany. This is also called the Anschluss.


  1938 March 12
• Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.


  1939 September 1
• France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.


  1939 September 3
• Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.


  1940 April 9 to June 9
• Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.


  1940 May 10 to June 22
• Winston Churchill becomes the leader of the British government.


  1940 May 30
• Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.


  1940 June 10
• the leader of Germany, ordered a surprise attack on Russia.


  1941 June 22
• Germany and Italy signed a friendship treaty that formed the Rome-Berlin Axis.


  October 15, 1936
• Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain.


  1940 June 10
• Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.


  1940 September 22
• Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.


  1941 June 22
• The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.


  1941 December 7
• The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.


  1942 June 4
• The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.


  1943 July 10
• Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.


  1943 September 3
• D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.


  1944 June 6
• Paris is liberated from German control.


  1944 August 25
• The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.


  1944 December 16
• US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle, they capture the island.


  1945 February 19