Annotated Timeline

  • 406 BCE

    Crossing the Rhine River

    Crossing the Rhine River
    A mixed group of barbarians which included Vandals, Alans and Suebi is traditionally considered to have occurred on the last day of the year 406.
  • Maginot Line

    Maginot Line
    elaborate defensive barrier in northeast France constructed in the 1930s and named after its principal creator, André Maginot, who was France's minister of war in 1929–31.
  • Italian Invasion Of Ethiopia

    Italian Invasion Of Ethiopia
    An armed conflict that that resulted in Ethiopia's subjection to to Italian rule. Seen as one of the episodes that prepared the way for WWll.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    Leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    The invasion pf Poland was also known as the September campaign and it was defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • Strategic Bombing

    Strategic Bombing
    The strategic bombing was sustained aerial attack on railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory during World War II.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    It was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force.
  • Battle of Moscow

    Battle of Moscow
    The battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. And it resulted in soviet victory
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
  • Battle Of Midway

    Battle Of Midway
    was a major naval battle in the pacific theater. It took place 6 months after japans attack on Pearl Harbor and 1 month after the battle of the coral sea.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    The battle of Stalingrad was Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. And the Soviet Union won the battle.
  • Tunisia Campaign

    Tunisia Campaign
    A series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
    World War II events. After the First Battle of El-Alamein, Egypt (150 miles west of Cairo), ended in a stalemate, the second one was decisive. It marked the beginning of the end for the Axis in North Africa.
  • Invasion of Italy

    Invasion of Italy
    I was amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian campaign of World War II.
  • Japanese Invasion of China

    Japanese Invasion of China
    Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China. When this clash was followed by indications of intensified military activity on the part of Japan. They wanted raw materials to fuel the growing its industry's.