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WWII timeline

  • Paris Peace Confrence

    Paris Peace Confrence
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    The Allied powers met at the Palace of Versialle to create the Treaty of Versaille ending WWI. The Treaty created the League of Nations that was supposed to keep peace after WWI
  • Nine Power Treaty

    Nine Power Treaty
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    The Nine Power treaty was signed at Washington, D.C. The signers were China and the United States, Great Britain (for the British Empire), Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands, who agreed to respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative integrity of China.
  • Mussolini takes over italy

    Mussolini takes over italy
    he had fascists kill people that he did not like.he also invented Acerbo Law that said if you did not vote for the Fascists you would be beaten
  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Beer Hall Putsch
    Hitler tryed to take over the Wiemer Government
  • Kellog-Briand Pact

    Kellog-Briand Pact
    This was a agreement to outlaw war.
  • U.S Stock Market Crash

    U.S Stock Market Crash
    This eent was also known as Black Tuesday. All Stock Market Crashed leading to the G.D.
  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria
    They blew up a railway in Manchuria this was also known as the Mancherian incident.
  • Nazi`s Reach a Political Majority in Germany

    Nazi`s Reach a Political Majority in Germany
    In Germany, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis' unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in the German state of Bavaria.
  • Hitler becomes Germany`s Chancellor

    Hitler becomes Germany`s  Chancellor
    Hitler became Germany`s Chancellor it was a crucial turning piont for Germany and the world
  • Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations

    Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
    League Of Nation was created at the end of WWI they were there to prevent another WW.Japan was actually forced to resing from L.O.N
  • First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany

    First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
    Germany made a lot more rules and regulations that affected all the Jews
  • Hitler Purges Nazi Opposition

    Hitler Purges Nazi Opposition
    This event was also known as
  • Hitler openly announces his defiance to the T.O.V

    Hitler openly announces his defiance to the T.O.V
    He was secretly braeking the TOV for two years and this affected Germany's relationship with France and Britian
  • Italy Invades Ethiopia

    Italy Invades Ethiopia
    in this onvasion 10`s and 1,000`s of Ethiopians were killed.
  • Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland

    Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Rome-Berlin Axis
    This was an aggrement between the two countries formed by italies minister it was formulized by the pact of steel
  • Japan Invades China

    Japan Invades China
    On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway--one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II--begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet Succedded in destroying four japanesse aircraft carriers.
  • Pacific Theater Begins

    Pacific Theater Begins
    On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway--one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II--begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S.
  • Germany Annexes Austria

    Germany Annexes Austria
    On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
  • Hitler demands the sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

    Hitler demands the sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
    On this day, Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia--a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims.
  • Munich Confrence

    Munich Confrence
    On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.
  • Franco becomes Dictater of Spian

    Franco becomes Dictater of Spian
    The general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic.
  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

    Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
    On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact

    Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact
    On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Nazi Invasion of Poland

    Nazi Invasion of Poland
    At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea.
  • Battle of Britian

    Battle of Britian
    In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
    Provided U.S. military aid to forieng nations
  • Operation Barbarosa

    Operation Barbarosa
    Hitler lead his troops into a massive invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    In July 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, to submit "as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
  • Doolitle Raid

    Doolitle Raid
    This raid was an daring opperation air attack by the U.S. on Japan lead by Lieutenant Dolittle hence the name Doolittle.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II.
  • D-Day/Operation Overlord

    D-Day/Operation Overlord
    After World War II began, Germany invaded and occupied northwestern France beginning in May 1940. The Americans entered the war in December 1941, and by 1942 they and the British (who had been evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 after being cut off by the Germans in the Battle of France) were considering the possibility of a major Allied invasion across the English Channel.
  • Battle of Bulge

    Battle of Bulge
    In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.
  • Adolf Hitler Commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler Commits suicide
    On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler's dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich.
  • V-E Day

    On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.
  • Little Boy Dropped

    Little Boy Dropped
    Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists–many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe–became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany.
  • Fat Man Dropped

    Fat Man Dropped
    The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day
    On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
  • Nuremburge Trials

    Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
  • Japanese war trials

    On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane.