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WWII Project

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  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    Leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany held a conference in Munich where they agreed to the German annexation of Sudetenland in exchange for peace with Hitler.
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    A devastating attack from Japan air forces on a U.S. naval base around Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 2,400 Americans died from this attack.
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  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    The Japanese invaded the Philippines from Dec 8, 1941 – May 8, 1942, leaving it devastated
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  • Island-hopping

    Island-hopping
    Used by the Allies, island-hopping consisted of winning battles while moving across the Pacific and closer to Japan.
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  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    Established by FDR, citizens of Japanese decent, even if they were U.S. citizens, were isolated in camps.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    A four day sea-and-air battle between the U.S. and Japan where the U.S destroyed four Japanese aircrafts.
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    The Allied victory placed the Allies in a position of supremacy and could be seen as the first in a string of successes that led to Japan's loss.
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army, the Soviets were successful in denying the Germans the ability to resupply through the air which strained the German forces to their breaking point.
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    This was when air, land, and sea forces were brought together for the allies, this became known as the largest invasion force in human history.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met up and decided that after Germany's surrender, it would be divided into four post-war occupation zones, controlled by U.S., British, French and Soviet military forces.
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The Berlin Wall, a wall dividing East Germany from West Germany, had crumbled.
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Hitler ended his own life, soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    Nuclear bombs that would be dropped on Japan were being tested here
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WWII
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    One of two nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan and caused them to surrender.
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