Timeline on World War 2

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  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany held a conference in Munich on September 29–30, 1938. In what became known as the Munich Pact, they agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler.
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise military attack on the United States on December 7, 1941, just before 8:00 a.m., at the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    At least 125,284 people of Japanese heritage were forcibly moved and imprisoned by the United States in 75 locations during World War II. From February 19, 1942, to March 20, 1946, the majority of them resided in concentration camps along the Pacific Coast in the western part of the nation.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a key naval combat in World War II's Pacific Theater that occurred on June 4-7, 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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  • Island hopping

    Island hopping
    During World War II, the Allies used a military strategy against the Empire of Japan in the Pacific War. The fundamental concept is to avoid heavily fortified enemy islands rather than attempting to seize each island in succession en route to a final destination.
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Guadalcanal marked the critical Allied shift from defensive to offensive operations in the Pacific theater, paving the way for offensive operations such as the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Central Pacific campaigns that eventually ended in Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle fought on World War II's Eastern Front between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, lasting over 5 months.
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. It was the greatest seaborne invasion in history, codenamed Operation Neptune and referred to as D-Day.
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  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    The battle for the liberation of Manila, fought between Filipino and American forces and Imperial Japanese forces from Feb 3-Mar 3, 1945, is usually regarded as one of the biggest catastrophes of the WWII. One hundred thousand men, women, and children were killed.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    The Yalta Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was a World War II gathering of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss Germany's and Europe's postwar reconstruction.
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The Battle of Berlin, also known as the Fall of Berlin and designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was one of the final major offensives of World War II's European theatre, lasting from Apr 16-May 2, 1945.
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Adolf Hitler commits suicide on April 30, 1945, while hiding in a bunker under his Berlin headquarters, by taking a cyanide pill and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, putting an end to Hitler's aspirations of a "1,000-year" Reich.
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    The first nuclear explosion ever tested on July16,1945, when a plutonium implosion device was fired 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the Jornada del Muerto plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range.
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    The Potsdam Agreement, signed on August 1, ironed out many of the elements of the postwar order. They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany, which would be divided into four Allied occupation zones ruled by the US, the UK, France, and the Soviet Union.
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    It grew increasingly likely that the United States would be compelled to launch a land invasion, potentially killing many Americans. Instead, the atomic bomb was utilized to speed the end of the war. Dropped at Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the second bomb, Japan was obliged to surrender for the sake of their citizens' lives.
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