World War Two Timeline

By AaronMitDue
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    Battle of the Atlantic

    German U-Boats sunk unprotected merchant ships
    Convoy ships and sonar systems used to protect shipping

  • Pearl Harbour

    Two attacks by Japan on the USA
    Hawaii, USA
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    Battle of the Coral Sea

    America lost battle
    America stopped Japanese invasion for the first time
    Island Hopping used to weaken Japan's forces
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    Battle of Midway

    Admiral CHester Nimitz intercepts Japanese code
    U.S. launches surprise attack on Island called Midway
    U.S. won battle
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    Germans attacked Soviet Union to gain Soviet oil fields
    Germans controlled 9/10 of the city but couldnt survive the 1943 winter

  • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

    Largest land-see-air operation in history
    3 million alliy troops attacked
    5 beaches attacked - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword
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    Battle of the Bulge

    Americans defending Belgium against Germans
    Germans lost 1,600 planes leading to their defeat

  • Yalta conference

    Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met to discuss post WW2
    Set up UN
    Took place before end of the war throughout

  • Iwo Jima

    Island in the pacific crucial to America's war effort
    27,000 japanese held the island 200 survived
    6,000 U.S. Marines lost in battle
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    Okinawa

    Japan's last defensive strongpoint
    1,900 Japanese Kamikaze attacks
    US won

  • Passing of FDR

    FDR passes away at the beggining of his 4th term
    US went through a lengthy grievng period
    Harry S. Truman, V.P., takes over as U.S. President

  • End of Hitler

    Hitler and current girlfriend, Eva Braun, commit suicide
    Gun Shot and Cyanide
    Bodies burned
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    American Occupation of Japan

    Trials held for Japanese war criminals
    7 of 28 Japanese leaders sentenced to death
    Occupation for 6 years under General Douglas MacArthur
    New Japanese constitution with free elections and suffrage for women
    Free market economy introduced

  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe
    Third Reich surrenders
    1st part of the war was over
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    Postdam

    Allied leaders meet in Potsdam, Germany
    Drew up plan to rid Germany of the Nazi regime

  • The Manhattan Project - Little Boy

    American atomic bomb
    Dropped on Japan city Hiroshima
    City collapsed in 43 seconds

  • The Manhattan Project - Fat Man

    American atomic bomb
    Dropped on Japan city, Nagasaki
    Leveled half the city

  • Japan Offers Surrender

    Surrender was unconditional

  • V-J Day

    Formal surrender
    Victory in Japan Day
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    Nuremberg Trials

    Nazi officials tried under court of law
    12 of 22 defendants were sentenced to death
    200 other officials found guilty, given lesser sentences