WWII timeline

By afrane

  • Poland gets invaded

    Germany invades Poland

  • Germany conquers countries

    Germany conquers Netherlands, Belgium, and France

  • Japan joins Axis alliance

    Japan joins Axis alliance with Germany and Italy

  • Battle of Britain

    Ends with Hitler's forces dismissal

  • US is "arsenal of democracy"

    President Roosevelt declares the United States an "arsenal of democracy"

  • Lend-lease program established

    Congress establishes the lend-lease program to deliver arms to Great Britain on credit

  • New Japanese prime minister

    General Hideki Tojo becomes Japanese prime minister

  • Four Freedoms speech

    Roosevelt delivers the Four Freedoms speech about the future of the world

  • Invasion of Soviet Union

    Germany begins it's invasion of the Soviet Union

  • Perl Harbor

    Japanese bomb U.S. navy's pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

  • Beginning of Holocost

    Hitler and Nazis formalize plans for exterminating Europe's Jews

  • Battle of Midway

    Americans destroy four Japanese aircraft carriers in the Battle of Midway

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Americans win Battle of Guadalcanal

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Soviet Union defeats the Germans in the Battle of Stalingrad

  • Sicily gets invaded

    Allies invade Sicily, Italy

  • French Invasion

    Allies launch an invasion of France

  • Hitler Dies

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin

  • Japanese Surrender

    After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrender