World War II Timeline

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  • Japanese invasion of China (1937)

    Japanese invasion of China (1937)
    It all started with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 where the Japanese and Chinese troops started getting heated, and this escalated into a war. Picture from Google.

  • German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)

    German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
    German Blitzkrieg is "lighting warfare" used by the German forces. This was used for successful military attacks in short periods of time. They often used these for mass destruction to try to ruin the opposing sides. Wikipedia.

  • Pearl Harbor (1941)

    Pearl Harbor (1941)
    Pearl Harbor is when the Japanese troops surprised the American Naval base in Hawaii and bombed numerous amount of ships. This destroyed the Navy base and killed 1,000s of men at the same time. They thought they had destroyed us but we got past the event and then nuked Japan. Wikipedia.

  • Bataan Death March (1942)

    Bataan Death March (1942)
    The Ja[anese forces had 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga where the prisoners where then loaded onto trains. Wikipedia.

  • Wannsee Conference (1942)

    Wannsee Conference (1942)
    The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders. This was held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. Wikipedia.

  • Allied invasion of Italy (1943)

    Allied invasion of Italy (1943)
    The allied invasion of Italy was led by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful invasion of Sicily. Wikipedia.

  • Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)

    Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)
    The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Ghetto in Germany at the time. It held a large amount of Jewish men and women and it is the most famous Jewish Ghetto ever. Wikipedia.

  • Operation Gomorrah (1943)

    Operation Gomorrah (1943)
    The allies bombed Hamburg during this mission and we destroyed numerous amounts of things. Like the industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries. This was a victory for the Allies. Wikipedia.

  • D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)

    D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)
    This was the largest invasion ever. Dooms Day was when the American troops invaded Normandy. It took a long time and it was very bloody but we were really persistent and eventually succeeded. Wikipedia.

  • Battle of the Bulge (1945)

    Battle of the Bulge (1945)
    This was one of the Nazis last offensive pushes they had during the war. They attacked through a dense Forrest, eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg during the end of the European war. Wikipedia.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

    Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
    This was when the American forces eventually landed on the islands of Iwo Jima and captured the islands.We took the island from the Japanese army. Wikipedia.

  • VE Day (1945)

    VE Day (1945)
    Victory in Europe day when the Nazi powers eventually surrendered to Allied powers because we were to much for their forces in the long run. Wikipedia.

  • Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)

    Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
    Americans dropped two atomic bombs on Japan for payback from Pearl Harbor. We dropped one on Nagasaki, and one on Hiroshima. This destroyed Japan and they eventually crumbled from then on out and we had defeated them. Wikipedia.

  • VJ Day (1945)

    VJ Day (1945)
    VJ day was the Victory over Japan. This is when Japan surrendered to America bringing the war to an end. Wikipedia.

  • Liberation of concentration camps (1945)

    Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
    This is when the Allied powers really started to see what the Germans had been doing this whole time. It was a sad time for the world. We began liberated all of the Germans concentration camps and we started to free the Jewish people. Wikipedia.