WWII Timeline

  • The Invasion of Poland

    The Invasion of Poland
    German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany
  • The Death of Adolf Hitler

    The Death of Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party
  • The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe
  • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor.
  • The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II six months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea
  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. The torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa
  • The Battle of Kursk

    The Battle of Kursk
    The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer
  • Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program

    Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
    They proposed a commission to protect European cultural heritage from damage and looting. The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Historic and Artistic Monuments in War Areas was established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • D-Day (June 6th, 1944)

    D-Day (June 6th, 1944)
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.
  • The Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge
    The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War,
  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima
    The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
  • The Battle of Okinawa

    The Battle of Okinawa
    The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
  • The Death of FDR

    The Death of FDR
    was the 32nd president of the United States.he was presadent 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms.
  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
    The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today
  • Atomic Bombing Nagasaki

    Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
    the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.