World War II

By Spyncer

  • Japan launches and attack on Manchuria

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    World War II

  • Itlalian forces invade Ethiopia

  • Hitler moves troops to Rhineland

  • Japan attacks Northern China

  • Leaders of Germany Italy France and Great Britain meet in Munich, Germany to avoid going to war.

  • Congress votes to enlarge and strengthen the navy

  • Hitler's army siezes all of Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler and Stalin sign Non-Agression Pact

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Italy attacks Albania

  • Adolf Hitler attacks Denmark and Norway

  • Hitler's army uses Blitzkrieg to attack Poland

  • The Netherlands and Belgium ask the Allies for help when Hitler invades them

  • More than 800 British ships rescue more than 300,000 British and French soldiers trapped at Dunkirk

  • German troops march victoriously into Paris

  • Hitler calls off the invasion of Great Britain

  • Franklin Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service act

  • The Finns surrender to the Soviet Union after a heroic battle

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign and alliance and become know as the Axis powers.

  • The Germans bomb and destroy entire London neighborhoods in an attempt to weaken British morale

  • The Lend-Lease Act allows the U.S. to sell, lend, or lease weapons or other war supplies to any nation considered vital to American defense.

  • Germans begin a 900-day seige of Lenningrad

  • Congress passes Neutrality Acts to ban selling weapons to nations at war.

  • Japanese warplanes attack the American Military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

  • Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States

  • Allied surrender Bataan

  • German troops surrender in Stalingrad

  • American bombers attack Tokyo

  • The Japanese face their first major defeat in the Battle of Midway

  • Hitler launches and attack on the Soviet-Union

  • The inexperienced American are defeated in Tunisia

  • The British turn Erwin Romnel back in Egypt, preventing the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal

  • Germany signs an unconditional surrender

  • The allies drive the Germans out of north Africa

  • Allied advance falters in Monte Cassino, Italy

  • Allies bombard German factories and cities day and night

  • D-Day: Allied ships land on the coast of Germany

  • American forces capture Guam

  • The Allies break through German lines and advance toward Rome

  • French and American soldiers liberate Paris

  • Germans launch Battle of the Bulge

  • American forces seize Iwo Jima

  • American forces seize Okinawa

  • The Atomic Bomb is tested in New Mexico

  • Hiroshima is hit with the Atomic Bomb

  • Nagaski is hit with the second Atomic Bomb

  • V-J day is proclaimed for Victory over Japan

  • The Japanese sign a formal surrender and WWII is ended