World war 2 timeline

By MiguelChavez

  • The Battle of Britain

    was a military campaign of the Second World War in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet air arm defended the united kingdom

  • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    was a surprise military strike by the imperial Japanese navy

    Air service upon the United States against american naval base at pearl harbor

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    was a brutal military campaign between rusian forces and those of nazi germany and the axis powers during ww2

  • The Battle of Midway

    one of Japan's main goals during ww2 was to remove the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain territory in East Asia and the southwest pacific islands

  • Operation Torch

    first major Allied amphibious Assault in World War II it involved about 65000 troops who landed at Casblanca

  • Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program

    was a program established in the 1940 by the allies to help protect cultural property

  • The Battle of Kursk

    was a major World War 2 eastern front battle between the forces of Germany and the soviet union

  • D-Day (June 6th, 1944)

    was the invasion of the beaches at Normaday in northern France by troops

  • The Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge was adolf hitlers last major offensive in World War II against the western front

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    was a major battle in which the united states marine corps USMC and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima

  • The Battle of Okinawa

    The battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War 2 and one of the bloodiest On april 1 1945

  • The Death of FDR

    franklin d roosevelt died on april 12 1945 due to a stoke

  • The Death of Adolf Hitler

    on april 30 1945 holed up in a bunker adolf hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill and shooting himself in the head Soon after germany suddenly surrenders ending the 1000 year old dream

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    the usa dropped one of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima called The Little Boy

  • Atomic Bombing Nagasaki

    the bomb dropped on Nagasaki this was all part of making japan surrender