WWII Project

Annexation of Sudetenland

Sep 30, 1938

The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany held a conference in Munich. In what become known as the Munich Pact. They agreed to the Annexation of Sudetenland. Which was a pledge with Hitler for peace.
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Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

A surprise military attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor, by Japan. Japans intent was to prevent the United States from interfering in the war. However it did the complete opposite. It was an automatic push for America into the war.
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Island-hopping

1942

Island hopping is a war tactic in which the military would go from fortified island to fortified island to get closer to their main target location.
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Japanese Internment Camps

Feb 19, 1942

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the American people got scared of Japan, and their people. The American government then sent Japanese Americans to the west coast into Internment Camps. This was an order done by President FDR Which was basically a prison. Later on President Ronald Reagan gave families 20k in restitutions from the United States government.
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Battle at Midway

Jun 4, 1942

A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater in which the United States destroyed Japan. Fought on ship and in air. The win of this battle really weakened Japan.
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Guadalcanal

Aug 7, 1942

The first major land offensive by Allied forces against Japan. By seizing a strategic airfield site, the United States stopped Japanese efforts to disrupt supply routes to Australia and New Zealand.
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Stalingrad

Aug 23, 1942

A brutal battle between the Allied forces and Axis powers. The battle is known as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare. Nazi Germany and their allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad, later renamed Volgograd, but was unsuccessful.
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Los Alamos

Jan 1, 1943

Los Alamos was apart of the Manhattan Project. Nicknamed the Trinity. In Los Alamos there was a bomb researcher and development laboratory. And was a key part in making the atomic bomb.
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D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

American troops entered the beaches of Normandy France, in what became known as the largest invasion force in history. It was the start of the campaign to liberate Europe and defeat Nazi Germany. It was considered a great success.
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The Philippines

Oct 20, 1944

General Douglas MacArthur organizes military units for the Pacific region in the Philippines. Then Pearl Harbor was attacked. The government told MacArthur and his crew to leave and MacArthur said the famous quote "I shall return". He then did return later.
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Meeting at Yalta

Feb 4, 1945

The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three allies, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. The leaders discussed the post-war fate of the defeated Germany and the rest of Europe. Where they decided that Germany would be split into four.
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Fall of Berlin

Apr 16, 1945

After years of fighting the Soviets attacked their attack on Berlin. Germany was outnumbered and outgunned. Nazi Germany finally surrendered.
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Death of Hitler

Apr 30, 1945

In his bunker in Berlin Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Soon after Germany surrendered. Everyone around the world was happy over the death.
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Meeting at Potsdam

Jul 17, 1945

The “Big Three” powers who had defeated Nazi Germany, met in the city of Potsdam near Berlin. They met to define the post-World War II balance of power.
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Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

America warned Japan to surrender to end the war, or they would send something catastrophic. They did not surrender, Americans warned the people of Japan then dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima which is a residential area. Japan did not surrender so American bombed around city of Nagasaki. Then Japan surrendered.
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