World War II Timeline Nick, Bre, Maddy

  • Einstein helps with the atomic bomb

    One of Einstein's theories E=MC2 helped for =m the basis of the development of the atomic bomb.
  • Albert Einstein emigrates to the United States.

    He took a position at the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
  • Concentration Camps

    Anyone who opposed the government or who weren't the superior race were put in these camps. The main camps were Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. Impressions were tattooed numbers on skin to keep track, given a striped suit to wear, and were often tortured and starved to death. Some scientists used cruel torture to attendants to conduct scientific experiments.
  • Kristallnacht

    Started when a Jewish refugee killed a German diplomat. Hitler then ordered that the Nazis's raid Jewish towns in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Also known as “ the night of broken glass”. Thousands of Jewish owned businesses and synagogues were destroyed not to mention 100’s of Jews arrested and killed.
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed

    Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet Non Agression pact, so that both of them could not be at war and profit of invading the other countries near them.
  • Hitler attacked the west

    He seized Norway to facilitate the navy's access to the North Atlantic.
  • HItler Brought a swift collapse to the French resistance

    He swiftly brought the French resistance to a collapse and gave hitler an aura of triumph
  • Hilter ordered the construction of the navy to defeat the U.S.

    Hitler ordered of the construction of the navy to defeat the U.S.
  • Hitler attacked Russia

    Hitler decided to attack in the east after the Soviet Union
  • Hitler broke the pact and attacked the U.S.S.R.

    Hitler was preparing his armies and Nazi leaders to launch "Operation Barbarossa" against Russia, Stalin did little to prepare for an invasion
  • MacArthur's air force was destroyed in Pearl Harbor

    MacArthur's airforce was destroyed by a surprise attack by the Japanese
  • Germany declared war on the U.S.

    Germany Declared war on the U.S.
  • Saturation Bombing

    This battle happened between the Japanese Navy and America + Austrailia. America sent two aircrafts, USS Lexington and USS Yorktown, to make attacks on Japan’s Navy and navy ships. This made the Japanese surrender and call off their attack on New Guinea.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower led the D-Day Invasion

    Dwight D. Eistenhower Led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day
  • MacArthur finally acceped Japans Surrender

    MacArthur finally officially accepted Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay