World War 2

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  • Nazis invaded Poland

    Nazis start their conquer of Europe with Poland.
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    World war 2

    Major events of world war 2

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

    Nazis move their armies closer to France.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

    Nazis continue to conquer contries .

  • Germans bomb Paris

    Germany begins to try and conquer France.

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.

    Germany keep the US from helping the allied powers by using submarines to destroy the ships with supplies.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs American ships. Many americans killed and wounded.

  • Hitler declares war on the United States.

    After Japan bombs Peral Harbor and US declares waron Japan, Hitler declares war on America

  • Battle of Midway

    US defeats Japan to get closer to the main land of Japan.

  • Massive German air raid on Stalingrad.

    Germany attacks its ally Russia with its air force.

  • Operation Torch begins

    US invasionof North Africa

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.

    Hitler loses a battle to Stalin and starts to withdraw some pf his troops.

  • U.S. fleet raids Truk Atoll

    Japan is close to Alaska. US attacks the Japanese.

  • Americans land on Leyte Island, Philippines

    US planned to attack Japan.

  • Naval battle of Leyte Gulf

    Major naval battle against Japan

  • First B-29 raid against Tokyo

    US begins to bomb Japan

  • Allied invasion of Okinawa

    Allied powers begins to attack Okinawa to make a airfield to attack Japan

  • Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.

    Germany surrenders and Allied powers take over Germany government.

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

    US bombs Japan in hoping to shorten the war.

  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan

    US bombs Japan in hoping to shorten the war.

  • Emperor Hirohito announces surrender of Japan

    Japan surrenders. The war is over.