Brendan Burke WW2 Timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was the formal ending of WW1
  • Hitler voted into power

    The date Hitler was voted into power
  • Hitlers Olympics

    The 1936 summer Olympics in which Hitler tried to prove the aryans were the superior race
  • German Invasion of poland

    The Germans invaded poland because it used to be a part of Germany and this is what sparked the beginning of ww2
  • German Invasion of france

    This is when Germany invaded France sparking the German part of ww2
  • Tripartite pact signed

    The day the countries of Italy, japan , and Germany became the axis powers.
  • Battle of Britain

    The battle of Britain showed hope for the other countries in ww2
  • Nazi's estable gas chambers at Aushwitz

    The date the nazi's Killed the first people with an experimental gas chamber in Aushwitz.
  • Pearl Harbor

    An attack from japan on the Hawaiian naval base pearl harbor.
  • Japanese Americans sent to internment camps

    After the bombing of pearl harbor the Americans put all the japanese Americans into camps
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    Axis powers surrender

    Italy surrendered firsts in 1943, Next was Germany surrendering May 1945 when Hitler killed himself.
    Last was Japan surrendering last after the US dropped two atomic bombs on the populated cities hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Iwo Jima

    A battle between the us and Japan where the us eventually ended up capturing the island of Iwo jima from japan
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    Atomic bombs dropped on japan

    Hiroshima was dropped first on August 6 and Nagasaki next on August 9.