WWII

By Dylan._.Anthony

  • Spanish Civil War ended

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Nazis and Soviets divide Poland

  • France signs an armistice with the Germans

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

  • First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-­‐Lease Act

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Japanese invade Singapore

  • Chester Nimitz appointed Commander and Chief of the US Pacific theater

  • Bataan Death March begins

  • U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz

  • Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of bloody fighting against U.S. Forces

  • Allies take Tunisia

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies

  • First Japanese submarine sunk by US

  • Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

  • D-­‐Day Landings

  • Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied forces

  • United Nations is officially born