World War 2

By emmaweaver

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    c; Japan invades Manchuria because this area as rich in iron and coal
    e; causing Japan to get more weapons

  • Hitler Gains Power

    Hitler gains power over Germany. Hitler went to other countries such a Poland to take over them because other Germans lived in the surrounding countries so he used that as an excuse to say "there are Germans living there already, so it's German land" cause: Germany was down an out so Hitler appealed to the Germans

  • Hitler comes into power

    The effects of Hitler coming into power were, the Holocaust
    cause; Germans were down and out and Hitler appealed to what they wanted

  • Japan invades Nanking

    Japan invaded Nanking, China, December
    cause: political
    effect: rape of Nanking (rivers ran red and thousands of woman were rapped and 10,000 people died)

  • Non-agression pact signing

    Germany and Russia sign a non-aggression pact

  • 1939 Germany invades Poland

    Beginning of successful invasions (by Germany) of Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and France, using Blitzkrieg
    C; Hitle wanted breating room for Germans
    E; WW2 begins in Europe whenGreat Britain and Frane declare war on Germany

  • Desert Campaigns

    Desert campaigns started. This was where the British general Montgomery outsmarted German general Irwin Rommel, with the nickname "the Desert Fox"

  • Complete invasion of Poland, etc

    Completed invasion of Poland, Denmark, Netherlands, France, and Norway. This invasion only took 9 months, while in WW1, it couldn't be done in within 5 years due to where we were in the Industrial Revolution

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • Russia invaded by Nazis

    Russia was invaded by the Nazis, breaking the non-aggression pact they signed in 1939

  • War on Western Front

    There were many Russian deaths due to war being open up on the Western Front of Russia because of the Nazi invasions

  • Pearl Harbor Bombing

    Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, hoping that would scare the United States into staying neutral

  • US declared war on Japan and Germany

    United States declared war on Japan and Germany

  • Japan invades

    Japan started invading lots of parts of Southeast Asia, causing Australia and New Zealand to become nervous

  • Desert Campaigns end

    Desert campaigns ended

  • Midway

    Battle of Midway

  • Battle Stalingrad

    Now recognized as Volgograd, is said to have been one of the bloodiest battles in all war history. There was more than 2 million dead. Germany dropped over 1,000 bombs on Stalingrad

  • Soviet Counter-attack

    After all of that, Germany received a Soviet counterattack, which cut the sixth army of the Nazis off

  • Operation Torch

  • GIs Closer to Japan

    GIs were getting closer to Japan because of the American strategy "island hopping"

  • D-Day Invasion

    D-Day invasions by Britain, Canada, and America, of Normandy, was what set off the end being near for the Nazis

  • Rome was freed

    Rome was freed in June by Americans and Canadians

  • 1945 Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler shot himself in his bunker in Berlin. His wife took her life along with him by drinking cyanide

  • America Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

  • America Drops Atomic Bomb on Kagasaki

  • Japan Surrenders

  • 1945 End of WW2

    Because people were terrified of Hitler, the sixth army, after being tortured, finally surrendered. There were an estimated 91,000 Axis POWs from Stalingrad, however, only about 6,000 made it home