WWII

By janders24

  • Nuremberg Race Laws

    Germans strip jews of all rights through the Nuremberg laws.

  • Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    Jews were attacked and forced out of their homes and into labor camps. many were killed.

  • Nazi Germany plots for war

    The day before Nazi Germany attacked Poland, they dressed a dead soldier in Nazi Uniform and layed him in polish territory, they also had a few Nazi operatives pose as Polish military officers to stage an attack on a radio station. They used those events to justify thier attack on Poland.

  • Start of WWII

    Nazi Germany invaded poland, which marked the start of WWII.

  • The Battle of Britain

    Germans made many air attacks on Britain by dropping bombs on their miltary bases throughout many cities.

  • FDR's Reelection

    FDR was reelected for his third term as President.

  • Signing of the Lend-Lease Act

    FDR signed the Lend-Lease Act making it possible for the allied powers to pay the U.S. back after the war.

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    Four million Germans invaded the Russian border. Killing more than two million Russians. They never did take control of Stalingrad though.

  • Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

    Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The naval base was completly unaware and unprepared for the attack.

  • Declaration of war on the Japanese

    The U.S. and Great Britain formally declare war on the Japanese Empire.

  • Germany and Italy declare war

    Germany and Italy both side with Japan and declare war on the U.S.

  • D-Day

    The day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler and his wife both committed suicide in a bunker where they were hiding. Hitler shot himself with his pistol while his wife ingested cyanide.

  • Victory in Europe Day

    Marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    US ivaded Iwo Jima with the intent of capturing it.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    The US dropped an Atomic Bomb on Japan in Hiroshima.

  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    The US dropped the second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki.

  • Japan's Surrender

    Japan formally surrendered in a formal ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, ending World War II.

  • V-J (Victory in Japan day)

    Japanese sign the surrender agreement.

  • United Nations is Born