Pearl Harbore

On the morning of December 7th, of 1941 the sleeping giant would get an awakening. At the naval base in Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to blow up all of the ships and the airfields. The Japanese airplanes were only targeting the bigger battleships such as the USS Arizona, USS West Virginia, or USS Tennessee. Eighteen ships were either sunk or badly damaged, including eight battleships. Around 200 U.S aircraft were destroyed and approximately 150 damaged. 2,400 Americans were killed mainly soldiers and about 1,200 were wounded. Japan only lost about 29 planes. Japan did this because they wanted America to pay back for putting an embargo on them for oil and iron ore. This is because Japan was taking over land that they shouldn't have taken. President declared war on Japan immediately after the attack. Later Germany and Italy declared war on US. After the bombing emperor of Japan Isoroku Yamamoto knew he had made a big mistake. He knew that he did something really of the scale, and he knew that he would pay back after all of this. His famous quote is "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"

Nuremburg Laws/1936 Olympics

In 1935 Adolf Hitler made laws for the Jewish people. The purpose of the laws were to purify the German race and keep it existent and singled out Jewish people. The laws consisted rules such as Jews could not interact with Germans. For example thy can not marry or go to the same school, such as segregation. Jews could not show or display any form of Germany. They could not raise a Nazi Germany flag etc. Jewish people were now considered illegal aliens since the laws took away their citizenship. All Jews had to wear the Star of David so people could know they were Jewish. If any of the laws were broken they would be forced with hard labor, fine, or sent to prison. But in 1936 Germany was hosting the summer Olympics. So Hitler decided to remove these laws. He did it so other countries could see how much of a great nation they were, where everybody was friendly. During the Olympics Hitler thought Germany was going to dominate everything and everyone. They did win the most medals, but was surprised when an African-American, Jesse Owens, beat his German sprinters. He was so surprised he had his scientist try to figure out why Owens was so fast. After the Olympics, Hitler reactivated the laws and everything was back to normal. All Jews were isolated from Germans.

Steps to WWII

In 1935 the inhabitants voted for the Saar land to be a part of Hitler's Nazi Germany. Later this lead to the wanting of the Rhine land. So in 1935 Adolf Hitler started building up his army and calling up men. On March 7th 1936 Germany marched into the Rhine land with only 22,000 men and invaded. In 1938 Hitler claimed that Austrian Nazis wanted unity with Germany. Hitler invaded Austria on March 11th 1938. Next, Hitler also wanted to unite all of the Germans in the Sudetenland which was part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938 Hitler took over. The Munich Pact stated that Great Britain and France will give Hitler the Sudetenland. On March 15th 1939, Hitler's troops marched into Czechoslovakia and invaded. Hitler now wanted Poland. Britain claimed to protect Poland form Germany and they knew the only way to stop Germany was through war. On August 1939 Hitler signed an agreement with Russia to help Germany if Great Britain intervened with the invasion of Poland. On September 1st 1939 Hitler invaded Poland, two days later Great Britain declared war on Germany. Before Germany invaded Poland and Great Britain declared war on Germany, Germany had broken the Treaty of Versailles and from this Great Britain or France did nothing about it. They just watched them do whatever they wanted. Only because they didn't want war with Germany. Even though they did end up going to war.