World War Two Timeline

By TimeLineGurlXX

  • Nuremburg Laws

    These were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

  • Munich Conference

    The Munich Agreement was a settlement allowing Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia's areas along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers.

  • Kristallnacht

    "night of broken glass" where at least 90 Jews were killed

  • Death Camps

    Mass murders happened in death camps of Jews and others alike.

  • St. Louis Affair

    Jews were turned down and sent back to be killed.

  • German Invasion of France

    The German army cut off France's defences to defeat them.

  • Dunkirk

    Part of the Battle of France.

  • Invasion of North Africa

    lasted two years

  • Pearl Harbor

    Involved the US in the war

  • Wake Island

    Fought with land, air, and naval forces.

  • Wannsee Conference

    The purpose was to discuss final solution policies

  • Bataan Death March

    Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines

  • Coral Sea

    The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.

  • Midway

    sought to eliminate US power in the Pacific

  • Guadalcanal

    Henderson field air base was established and held

  • Stalingrad

    One of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare

  • Sicily Invasion

    It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation.

  • Fall of Rome

    Occured after the invasion of italy

  • Invasion of Italy

    3,500 casualties

  • Tarawa

    the first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing

  • Tehran Conference

    Meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.

  • D-Day

    First Normandy landing

  • Phillippines

    Invasion of the Phillippines by Japan defending forces outnumbered Jap. invaders 3 to 2

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Very secrative, troops and equipment was moved under cover of darkness.

  • Yalta Conference

    intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of europe

  • Iwo Jima

    Goal was to capture the whole island to provide a staging area for attackts on the Jap, main islands.

  • Firebombing of Tokyo

    In large urban area to devistate morale.

  • Okinawa

    Largest amphibious assult in WWII

  • Death of FDR

    Died from a cerebral hemorrhage

  • VE Day

    surrender of armed forces of Nazi Germany

  • Enola Gay

    B-29 bumber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima

  • Trinity test

    Test of nuclear bombing in New Mexico

  • Potsdam conference

    also known as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK.

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima was a city of both industrial and military significance, which is one of the main reasons it was a target by the US for nuclear bombing. The bomb was named "little boy"

  • Nagasaki

    Nuclear bomb named "fat man"

  • VJ Day

    The day the Japs surrendered