World War 2 Events

  • Anschluss

    Annexed Austria, Liberation of German people in Czechoslovakia
  • Treaty of Munich

    Hitler, Chamerberlin, Mussonlini decided that the Czechs are allowed to be taken over. Czechs had no say. Fake peace with Hitler
  • Britain rearms and reassures Poland

    Britain beings to rearm Poland with secrete conscription and radar
  • Russia and Germany Sign Pact

    Hitler and Stalin have a non-aggression pact.
  • Hitler Invades Czechoslovakia

    Despite treaty of Munich, Hitler invades Czechoslovakia anyway
  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Adolf Hitler invades Poland
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany
  • Phoney War

    Britain saw no military actions
  • Hitler Invades Denmark and Norway

    Hitler invades
  • Bltizkrieg

    Hitler declares this type of war on Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam bombed to oblivion.
  • Chamblerlain Resigns

    Chamberlin gives up and gives his full support of Britain to Churchill.
  • Dunkirk ( Operation Dynamo

    British about tp be killed, saved by the boats of the people
  • Italy enters war on side of Axis powers

    Italy wants to get rich from the war
  • France signs aermisitce with Germany

    The French, marshal Petain, sign armistice with Germany taking France.
  • Tripartite Pact

    The pact of alliance was made by Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • British rout Italians in N. Africa

    General Wavell led the British
  • Battle of Britain

    1. Hitler sent planes 2. Bombing raids went for RAF fields
    2. The Blitz- London bombed heavily
    3. Night bombing - bombing of London at night RAF defended the skies
  • Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia

    Germany and Italy attacked Yugoslavia. General Marshall Erwin led the axis powers back to north america
  • Hitler attacks Russia - Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler sent 3 mill to Russia. USA gave arms to Britain. 20mil dead.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bomb the crap out of the USA and sink our fleet.
  • Britain and US declare war on Japan

    Britain and the USA declare war on Japan
  • Japanese take singapore

    The Japs capture sinapore from the British
  • Battle of Midway

    USA defeated the Japs navy at Mdway. 60,000 captured.
  • Allies in N. Africa

    Alexander gets note from Churchill, destroyed German-Italian army commanded by Rommel.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Russians get first victory against Germany
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Montgomery attacked German army in North Africa
  • Allies push into N. Africa

    British and American forces defeat Axis forces in North Africa
  • Allies invade Sicily

    Brits and USA invade Italy
  • Allies take Sicily

    ALLIED TROOPS TAKE ITALY
  • Italy surrenders

    Mussolini thrown out of office. Germans take control of Italian army
  • Allies meet at tehran

    Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill meet and talk about the war and maybe peace
  • Rome liberated

    Allies finally liberate Rome from Italy
  • Japanese evicted from Burma

    British forces evict Japs from Burma
  • Leningrad liberated

    Soviet army lifted siege of Leningrad
  • D-Day

    Allies attack Germany and change the course of the war.
  • Paris Liberated

    French capital liberated from the Germans
  • V2 Flying bombs

    3 people killed by this German weapon
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium/ Bu they were defeated by Allies.
  • Allies cross the Rhine

    Soviets were approaching Berlin at the same time
  • Russians reach Berlin

    Russians make it to Berlin first, then the American forces came in after them.
  • Death of Roosevelt

    Truman came after him ( The nuke guy)
  • Mussolini captured and executed

    Italian partisans capture him and murder him
  • Hitler kills himself

    Dies with his wife in a bunker.
  • German forces surrender

    Germany gives up
  • German forces surrender

    German forces in Holland, Denmark, and Montgomery. Hitler's second in command wanted to keep fighting the Russians
  • Donitz offers unconditional surrender

    Donitz was Hitler's second in command, and he gave up
  • V.E. Day

    Victory in Europe was Celebrated
  • Chruchill loses election

    A landslide victory, people want to forget the war and have someone fresh
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    Japanese would not surrender so we blew they away
  • Russia declares war on Japan

    Russia invade Japan areas but not the motherlands
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

    Hiroshima just wasn't enough
  • Japanese surrender

    Japanese unconditionally surrender and give up to the allied powers.
  • MacArthur accepts Japan's surrender

    Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender and officially ended the war