World War II Timeline

By jenruck

  • Great Depression

    Severe depression was a severe depression before WWII.

  • Aircraft carriers

    Served as seagoing bases.

  • Tunnels

    War conducted in tunnels.

  • Rosie the Riveter

    Women worked in factories and shipyards in 1939-1945.

  • Starting place of WWII

    Germany invaded Poland.

  • Rationing

    Limiting the amount of resources to the population to give to the troops during WWII.

  • Auschwitz

    German concentration camp.

  • Enola Gay

    Boeing B-29 Bomber. First carrier craft to dump atomic bomb.

  • Italy

    Italy joined wars of Axis powers.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese

  • Island Hopping

    Strategy to secure smaller less defensive islands.

  • Lend Lease

    Means to provide the US military aid to foreign nations during WWII.

  • War Bonds

    Debt securities issued by the government to finance military operations and other expenditures during times of war.

  • Phillipines

    Philippines attacked by Japan 9 hours after attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • Final Solution

    Code name for the genocide of all Jewish people.

  • John Brown

    British soldier prisoner of war.

  • Manhattan Project

    Research and development undertaking during WWII to produce the first nuclear weapons.

  • Japanese atrocities

    Japanese war crimes.

  • Battle of Midway

    US versus Japanese navy.

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Imperial Japanese Navy against US and Australia.

  • Doolittle's raid

    US raids Tokyo.

  • Internment

    Forced relocation of German concentration camp.

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Series of land and sea clashes between Japan & Allies.

  • Unconditional Surrender

    Germany surrenders to Allies.

  • Sicily

    Allied Invasion of Sicily known as Operation Husky.

  • Operation Fortitude

    Code name for WWII military deception by Allied Nations.

  • Operation Overload

    Battle of Normandy invasion by German.

  • Dropping the Atomic Bomb

    US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    American forces invades Iwo Jima.

  • Battle of Okimawa

    US against Imperial Japanese army.

  • Fat man

    Code name for nuclear bomb detonation over Nagaski by the US.

  • Little boy

    First atomic bomb used against Japan in WWII.

  • Battle of the Buldge

    Ardennes Counteroffensive, the last major German campaign on the Western Front during WWII, 1944 -1945.

  • Planned for end of WWII

    Operation Downfall was a proposed Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of WWII.