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WWII Timeline
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Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invades Manchuria for natural resources -
First Concentration Camp
First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin. -
Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. -
Jewish people stripped of rights
German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Italy invades, conqures, and annexes Ethiopia -
Rhineland
German troops occupy the Rhineland -
WWII in the Pacific
Japan invades China initiating WWII in the Pacific -
Anschluss
Germany and Austria become united again. -
Munich Agreement
The Munich agreement was signed by; Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France. -
Nonagression Act
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement -
Official start of WWII
Germany invades Poland -
Declare War!
Great Britian and France declare war on Germany for the invasion of PolND -
Germany begins euthansing
Nazis begin to euthinsia the sick and disabled in Germany -
Soviet Union invades Finland
Soviet Union invades Finland intitiating the Witner War. They sue for armissice and cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the coast line along the Arctic Sea. -
Germany invades Denmark
Germany invades Denmark. They surrender the day of the attack. -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Also Germany invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -
Germany invades Norway
Germany invades Norway on April 9th. Norway holds out until June 9th -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Germany begins attacking the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. -
Stalin calls for the "Scorch Earth" policy
Stalin orders for the evacuated cities to be surned to the ground leaving no resources for the german soldiers. -
First use of Gas Chamber
First experimental use of the gas chamber in Auschwitz. -
Leningrad
The final land connection was severed. THe siege had started and lasted 872 days -
Axis Powers declare war on the U.S.
The axis powers declare war on the U.S. -
Mass Murder
Mass Murder of Jews by gas chambers begin at Auschwitz. -
Japanese Navy halt
U.S. and British navy halt the Japanese naval advance at Midway -
New launch at the Soviet Union
Germany launches a new attack at the Soviet Union and fight their way into Stalingrad on the Volga River -
Japanese island hoppping is halted
U.S. halts the island-hopping advance towards Australia. Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. -
Stalingrad
German attempt at taking over the final major city in the Soviet Union. Largest loss for Hitler -
Germany surrenders in Egypt
Germany and Italy are defeated at El Alamein, Egypt. They go into a chaotic retreat across Libya to Tunisia. -
Operation torch
The invasion of North Africa. First time Americans have seen live combat -
U.S and British troops land in Italy
U.S, and British troops land on Sicily. By August the Allies control Sicily. -
Normandy
Britian and U.S. successfully land at Normandy, opening the second front. -
D-day
Invasion of France -
VE-Day
Marked the formal end of the war in europe -
Nagasaki
The U.S. drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan -
Japan surrenders
Japan surrenders ending World War II
