WW2 timeline

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
    The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931 in hopes of gaining more natural resources to support their massive expansion and militarization. They didnt not want to keep rely on the U.S for resources and decided Manchuria was ideal for a Japanese expansion since it was already fighting a civil war between nationalists, communists and warlords.
  • hitler takes power

    hitler takes power
    Hindenburg and Papen came up with a plan to get the Nazis on their side by offering to make Hitler vice chancellor. Hitler refused and demanded to be made chancellor. And almost everyone agreed, thinking they could control him.
  • US Neutrality Acts

    US Neutrality Acts
    Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting.And on February 29, 1936, Congress renewed the Act until May of 1937 and prohibited Americans from extending any loans to belligerent nations.
  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia

    Mussolini invades Ethiopia
    Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, because, first of all, he had grandiose ideas of building a new Roman Empire. he also had that big idea of being the new Julius Caesar. There for Mussolini invaded Ethiopia after giving a speech saying, "Ahora basta!" This meant "now it stops!"
  • Germany invades Rhineland

    Germany invades Rhineland
    Germany did not invade rhineland they just put troops there. one of the conditions of the treaty of Versailles which ended world war 1 was that they could not put troops in the rhineland this was one of the things that started WWII.
  • Hitler Annexes Austria

    Hitler Annexes Austria
    Hitler was Austrian himself. He also wanted to create a greater German nation as the centre of a German empire. And the Anschluss was his first step.
  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Conference
    as they all got togethere and singned this pact Hitler promise no further aggression by Germany.
  • Germany Invades Sudetenland

    Germany Invades Sudetenland
    germany invaded sudetenland to get more power. also to gain more people on there side.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    the Kristallnacht allowed the german to remove the jew from there german public life. by allowing this the jewish where prohibit from doing alot of things, the jewish childern were shortly not allwoed to go to school.
  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
    the nazi and the soviet union supprised the world and agreed with the nonagression to not tak eno military actions for the pass 10 years.
  • invation of poland

    invation of poland
    germany invated poland with blitzkrieg attack
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    hitler had singed the nonagretion pact, but after he had the power he invaded poland and started to do keep on going with his bad disitions. germany declaerd war on franve and italy.
  • The Phony War

    The Phony War
    The Phoney War began on September 3 ,1939 and went on to 10th May 1940. European powers had declared war on one another but neither side had launched a formal or significant attack.
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
  • phony war

    phony war
    germany resumed "blizkrieg" attacks
  • Fall of France

    Fall of France
    the german invated france and low countires. and german made up a risky plan.
  • Rescue at Dunkirk

    Rescue at Dunkirk
    The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. The operation became necesery when a large number of groups of places such as britain , france, and balgain troops where cut of and surrounded by the german army.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was an air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force.
  • US Lend-Lease Program

    US Lend-Lease Program
    Lend-Lease Act authorized the military to gain nations durintg world war 2. this act also gave many countries weapons under this law.
  • Yugoslavia and Greece fall

    Yugoslavia and Greece fall
    The attack on Yugoslavia was every agresive and turned out to be very nasty. an act of terror resulting in the death of 17,000 civilians the largest number of civilian casualties in a single day since the start of the war.
  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany invades the Soviet Union
    the invation broke the nonagresive pact that hitler had made with the soviet union. German troops pushed into the south and west, with a third force making their way from the north towards Leningrad.
  • Last stage of the "Final Solution

    Last stage of the "Final Solution
    the final solution was a code word for the murder of most of the jew. hitler was part of the final solution.
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter
    the document was not a treaty.The Atlantic Charter included eight common principles. the United States and Britain agreed not to take power from the war, and they regect any territorial changes made against the wishes of the people concerned.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    pearl harbor was suprieds when the united states and japan attacked but in reality usa and japan had this allplaned out for decades.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    holocaust was a word that came from a greek word, that means (whole).
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    the US surrenerd to bataan. and the american troops where forced to march to the camps.
  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    Battle of the Coral Sea
    this was a major battle that had happend in world war 2. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Midway planes were not successful, American carrier-based planes turned the tide. japan lost to midway.
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal
    on this battle the janpanes lost a lot of members
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    it was a mager battle in world war 2, the nazi german had fought the solviet union. the reason they fought was for control.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    the operation torch ended on november 11 1942.US and British forces, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, carried out this campaign.
  • Invasion of Italy

    Invasion of Italy
    the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies' terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8. the allies invated the italian.
  • D-Day Invasion

    D-Day Invasion
    D-Day means the first day of any military operation. Today, it has come to mean a particular D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    The Battle of the Bulge was an attack, ordered by Hitler, to try to break the alliance of France, Britain and America. It was the biggest American battle in the world.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    Iwo Jima was part of the Allied strategy known as island hopping, which successfully dismantled Japan's Pacific empire piece by piece, island by island,
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    Okinawa was considered a part of the Japanese home territory. it was populated by a population of Indigenousness Japanese.
  • Germany's Unconditional Surrender

    Germany's Unconditional Surrender
    the german unconditional surrender was signed by representatives. on may 7 French representativen signed as witness.
  • Hiroshima - Atomic Bomb

    Hiroshima - Atomic Bomb
    In a 1 mile radius of ground zero, almost all buildings were destroyed by the blast of x-ray heated air that caused an enormous shockwav. there for it was a very dangerous bom.
  • nagasaki- automatic bomb

    nagasaki- automatic bomb
    The devastation of Hiroshima was not able to convince the japanese war Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's there for they demand for unconditional surrender.
  • Nagasaki - Atomic Bomb

    Nagasaki - Atomic Bomb
    The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. The two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date