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WW2 Time line

  • Germany Blitzkreig

    Germany Blitzkreig
    Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was vicious. They sought to avoid a long war. They relied on a military force.
  • Germanys Invasion Of Poland.

    Germanys Invasion Of Poland.
    Heavy shelling and bombing, because they declared war, and proposal for road way, withdrawl, and aggression pact.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japanese planes attacked the U.S. To take the possesions. They killed a lot of people and destroyed a lot of land.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The day the allied powers crossed english channel. It was military lingo, the beginning and end of the germans.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    One big engagement of the war. Far allies to gain ground. 1/3 of all of the marines losses during WW1
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    The Battle of Okinawa epburn codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa ...
  • VE day

    VE day
    Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
  • bombing

    bombing
    On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.
  • battle of the bulge

    battle of the bulge
    Germans launch the last major offence of war. Attemt to pushaliied front line west. 30,000 soldiers and 44,000 infantry forces were killed.