World War II: Events Around the Globe

By ToniB16

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party.

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  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.

  • Civil war erupts in Spain.

  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.

  • Germany announces union with Austria.

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia.

  • Spanish Civil war ends.

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.

  • Nazis invade Poland.

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

  • United States proclaims its neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  • Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis

  • Italy declares war on Britain and France.

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.

  • Italians invade Egypt.

  • United States military conscription bill passed

  • Italy invades Greece.

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.

  • Greece surrenders to the Nazis

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.

  • Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter

  • Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Hitler takes complete control of the German Army

  • Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations

  • Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA

  • First American forces arrive in Great Britain

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz

  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.

  • Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France

  • First U.S. atomic bomb test

  • United Nations is born.

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • CONCLUSION

    These are ONLY some of the events that occured in WWII. There are several other key events that have been left out for convience puropses. I owe much of my gathered information to historyplace.com.

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan from US

  • Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin

  • Conclusion

    This timeline shows that the second world war really was a worldwide massacure.These are only some of the key events that occured in WWII. I have left out several key events for convience purposes. I owe much of my data to historyplace.com.