WWII Timeline

  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    Where the Munich pact was signed agreeing to give Germany Sudetenland by Great Britain, France, and Italy
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japanese air forces went in and bombed all of the u.s pacific fleet damaging many ships
  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    The day after attacking Pearl Harbor the Japanese attacked and took control of Philippine islands
  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    FDR had the 9066 order which forced Japanese Americans into camps as the U.S. feared some maybe be spies for the Japanese
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Was the turning point in the war for the allied powers
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Aug 7, 1942 – Feb 9, 1943 was fight for the island which is a part of the Solomon Islands and the allied powers up against the Japanese and came out victorious
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    Aug 23, 1942 – Feb 2, 1943 Germany fought the Soviet Union for the control of the city of Stalingrad​ after breaking their agreement
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The first day the allied powers stormed the beaches of France to take back Europe​
  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    Feb 4, 1945 – Feb 11, 1945 The conference to discuss the plan for germany and the ending defeat for germany as well as after plans which result in germany being split into the four parts between Britain, France, U.S, and the Soviet Union
  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping
    U.S would fight for the control over the islands in the pacific against the Japanese slowly making their way to japan
  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    Apr 16, 1945 – May 2, 1945 was one of the final wars as the Allied powers had closed in on axis power in Europe in the Berlin city and won
  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Hitler killed himself on this date so he wouldn’t end up like Mussolini​ and be made fun of by his people
  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo Bombing Range
  • Meeting at Postdam

    Meeting at Postdam
    July 17 - August 2, 1945, the meeting where the U.S, Britain, France, and Soviet Union decided what to do with Germany all the other issues after the war
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    location of the first atomic bomb which the U.S dropped on Japan