WWII Timeline

Annexation of Sudetenland

Mar 14, 1939

Germany took over Sudetenland in order to expand their territory and get control of military defense areas.
video-https://youtu.be/rofmja5WGqA
article-https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html

Island Hopping

1941

Strategy made by the allies to target key islands, take them over then make their own military base there.
video-https://youtu.be/TBgxW3H_tsI
article-https://www.studentsofhistory.com/war-in-the-pacific

Peal Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

surprise military strike by the Japanese on the United States against at the naval base of Peral Harbor in Honolulu.
video-https://youtu.be/6lIm06JOBtw
article-https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/attack-pearl-harbor-1941

Japanese Internment Camps

Feb 19, 1942

Internment camps in the United states where groups of Japanese were held because of the fear of Japanese spy's.
video-https://youtu.be/hI4NoVWq87M
article-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/injustice-japanese-americans-internment-camps-resonates-strongly-180961422/

Battle of Midway

Apr 4, 1942

Major naval battle between the US and the Japanese 6 months after Pearl Harbor.
video-https://youtu.be/kipF5zoCGAk
article-https://warontherocks.com/2016/06/the-battle-of-midway-the-complete-intelligence-story/

Guadalcanal

Aug 7, 1942

first major offense and defensive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
video and article-https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/life-guadalcanal

Stalingrad

Feb 2, 1943

Germany fought the USSR to gain control of Stalingrad.
video-https://youtu.be/-Y7HeYmR7M0
article-https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-stalingrad

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Landing operations off the allied forces as part of operation overlord.
Was the beginning of german occupied western Europe.
video-https://youtu.be/RIIN0Ug8wg8
article-https://theddaystory.com/discover/what-is-d-day/

Philippines

Oct 20, 1944

battle between the us and the Japanese which ended in total US victory.
video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3l6d_o1mxc
articlehttps://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/mariana-islands/philippine-sea.html

Meeting of Yalta

Feb 4, 1945

World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
video-https://youtu.be/CcHbOtTQxWE
article-https://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/wwii-m2v/

Death of Hitler

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler committed suicide by gunshot
video-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/death-of-hitler-video
articlehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/deathofhitler.htm

Fall of Berlin

May 2, 1945

one of the last major offensives of the European theater of World War II. Once the wall fell the reunion of east and west Berlin finally happened.
video-https://youtu.be/mup-QRFmP24
article-http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm

Los Alamos

Jul 16, 1945

This was the nuclear site for the Manhattan project tested by the US.
video-https://youtu.be/axkQ4UjTc8M
article-https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/trinity-test-1945

Meeting at Postdam

Jul 17, 1945

The participants that met were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman.
video-https://youtu.be/1CURyKYXNSs
article-https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-potsdam-conference/

Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

The atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan. Made complete and udder destruction and killed many innocent people of Hiroshima.
video-https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops- atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima
article-https://youtu.be/iV_1z5FOCvA