Ww2

Timeline On World War 2

By Tyrese Rios

  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping
    Military Strategy employed by the allies. Strategy included taking over islands and and establishing military bases

  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    Czechoslovakia was being invaded by Germany. Lasted from October 1st 1938 to October 10th 1938

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The battle of Normandy, it was about the allies freeing western Europe of Nazi control, lasting from June, 6th 1941 to late August 1941.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor was an event that the Japanese surprise, attacked the USA naval base in Hawaii. Lasted from December 7th 1941 at 8am and ending the same day
    https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/attack-pearl-harbor-1941

  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    During World was 2 Americans placed anyone of Japanese decent. Into camps as fear they were spies.
    https://www.ushistory.org/

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    One of the US's response to Japans bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lasted from 4-7 June 1942

  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Battle of Guadalcanal, known as the first major battle of the allies against Japan, lasting from August 7th 1942 to February 9th 1943

  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    The battle of the Philippines was a battle important to the Japanese because if the took the Philippines they will be able to deprive the USA of an advanced base in the region. Lasted from December 8th 1942 to March 3rd 1945

  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    Longest battle in world war two, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union over the city of Stalingrad. Battle lasted from August 23rd, 1942 to February 2nd 1943

  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    The meeting at Yalta was a meeting of the victors of world war two concerning Germany and what to do with them since they lost the war.

  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    One of the last battles of world war two, lasting from April 16th 1945 to May 2nd 1945.

  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Hitler ended his life when world war two was turning in favor for the allies and coming to an end. He ended his life in Berlin, Germany on April 30th, 1945
    https://www.biography.com/dictator/adolf-hitler

  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    Place where the US tested nuclear and atomic weapons during world war 2. Located in New Mexico

  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    The last meeting with the three major powers and victors of world war two.

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    Hiroshima was a modern city in japan that was destroyed by the atomic bomb and led to the defeat of the Japanese during world war two in 1945