Horner WWII

  • First Nuetrality Act is passed

    First Nuetrality Act is passed
    The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II
  • Signing of Rome-Berkin Axis

    Signing of Rome-Berkin Axis
    Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936.
  • Signing of the anti-cominterm pact

    Signing of the anti-cominterm pact
    agreement concluded first between Germany and Japan then between Italy, Germany, and Japan, it direscted against the comminist internaitonal but,by implication, specifically against the Soviet Union.
  • Hitler delcares Austria as part of thired reich

    Hitler delcares Austria as part of thired reich
    Hitler delcared Austira being contoled by hitler and germany now
  • Munich confrence

    Munich confrence
    The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it.
  • German troops invade czheslovakia

    German troops invade czheslovakia
    Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.
  • Mussolini invades albania

    Mussolini invades albania
    The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
  • German-Soviet Non aggression pact signed

    German-Soviet Non aggression pact signed
    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Germnay attacks polan

    Germnay attacks polan
    marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement that terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities in the east on 16 September.
  • Soviet Union attacks Finland

    Soviet Union attacks Finland
    On this day in 1939, the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance.
  • Germans invade Denmark and Norway

    Germans invade Denmark and Norway
    German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
  • Germany invades netherlands, belgium, and luxzemberg

    Germany invades netherlands, belgium, and luxzemberg
    Hitler begins his Western offensive with the radio code word “Danzig,” sending his forces into Holland and Belgium. On this same day, having lost the support of the Labour Party
  • Churchhill named prime minister of GB

    Churchhill named prime minister of GB
    Winstonwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist.
  • Dunkerque is evacuated

    Dunkerque is evacuated
    The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk
  • Mussolini declares war on France and GB

    Mussolini declares war on France and GB
    Italy’s declaration of war on the 10th, it wasn’t until the 20th that Italian troops were mobilized in France, in the southwest-and easily held at bay by French forces.
  • Batlle of Britain

    Batlle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940.
  • Japna forms alliance with germany and italy

    Japna forms alliance with germany and italy
    There were two major alliances during World War II: the Axis and the Allies. The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • Rommel takes contol of libya

    Rommel takes contol of libya
    German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians’ position.
  • Germnay attacks soviet union

    Germnay attacks soviet union
    Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union within the following year. On December 18, 1940, he signed Directive 21, the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • Siging of the atlantic charter

    Siging of the atlantic charter
    The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.
  • Pearl habor

    Pearl habor
    Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Congress declares war on Japan

    Congress declares war on Japan
    On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Wansee Conference

    Wansee Conference
    Thsi was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.
  • Bataan death march

    Bataan death march
    The Bataan Memorial Death March is a challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range, conducted in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
  • D day

    D day
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Macarthur lands in the phillipeans

    Macarthur lands in the phillipeans
    He launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.
  • V-E day

    V-E day
    E Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
  • Potsdam conference

    Potsdam conference
    Courties fot toether to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day
    On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri