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WW2 Timeline

By swaggerhut

  • Shattered Munich Pact

    historical significance:
    - Even after Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain signed the Munich Pact, Germany broke the treaty and seized Czechoslovakia.
    casue and effect:

  • Germany Invades Poland

    casue and effect:
    - Adolf Hitler wanted more land so he could expand his army and etc.
    - he end up invading Poland
    historical significance:
    To give Germans lebensraum in Eastern Europe, Hitler invaded poland

  • Germany invasion

    historical significance:
    Historical significance :
    - Germany invaded France, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Denmark and Norway.

    - Later leading to success in all these countries except for Britain.
    cause and effect:

  • The Battle of Britain

    Historical significance:
    - The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.
    - The Battle of Britain marked the first defeat of Hitler's military forces.
    Cause and effect:
    The Germans viewed the defeat of Britain's Royal Air Force
    - When the German air force failed to win air superiority over England, Hitler postponed the invasion until the spring of 1941.

  • Stalingrad

    historical significance :
    - Battle of Stalingrad marked the end of Germany's advances into eastern Europe and Russia.
    - this battle was the first major German loss during World War II
    casue and effect:
    - After the Germans lost in Stalingrad, they did not advance any farther into eastern Europe or Russia.
    - because the Soviet army gained strength and spent a lot of the rest of World War II fighting the Germans to get the territory that Russia had lost back.

  • Turning point ( gernan invasion on russia)

    • The German invasion of Russia in June of 1941.
    • This opened the Eastern Front, and that is something that would eventually lead to Germany's defeat.

  • Attack of Pearl Harbor

    historical perspective:
    The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they thought that if they ruined most of the United States naval force, that America would not be able to take part in the war.
    historical significance :
    - Pearl harbour attack by Japanese had a major impact on the course events of World War II.
    - In addition to marking the entry of Japan in World War II, it served the purpose of getting direct involvement of the USA in the war.

  • U.S enters WW2

    historical significance :
    - The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.
    Casue and Effect :
    - the United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan in response to its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. I

  • Germany Declare a war on U.S

    historical significance :
    - Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
    Casue and Effect:
    - Germany declared war upon the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was formally neutral during World War II.

  • The Bttle of Mid Way

    Turning point :
    - The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War.
    - Before the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7-8 May 1942, the Imperial Navy of Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and Indian oceans.

  • Turning point ( Midaway battle )

    • Midway, where much of the Japanese fleet was destroyed.
    • After this, the Japanese were on the defensive for the rest of the war.

  • D-Day

    historical significance :
    - D-Day is important for World War II because it was the main Allied invasion of continental Europe.

    - It was this invasion that allowed the Allies to finally defeat Germany.
    Cause and effect :
    - Causes were because the Western Allies needed to liberate Europe to end the war and to open up a second front.
    - Consequences were the defeat of Germany and end of War in Europe.

  • Interment Camps

    hisstorical perspective :
    - The United Stated held those of Japanese decent in camps.
    - America did this because they thought that some could be spies.

  • The Fall of Germany

    historical significance :
    - Russain reached Berlin and Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered.
    casue and effect :
    Hitler realized that if he was captured by the Russians, who were the troops overrunning Berlin, any mercy they showed in not killing him immediately would merely be a prelude to a quick trial and then humiliation and death. Rather than show the courage to face the consequences of all he had done, he committed suicide.

  • Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

    Historical significance
    - U.S. to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

    - which killed at least 129,000 people,
    Countiuty and chage:
    - The atomic bomb killed thousands on impact and for many many years later it killed citizens because of radiation.

  • The bombing of Nagasaki

    Casue and effect
    - A second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.
    historical significance:
    - The bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered.