WWII timeline

  • treaty of versailles

    treaty of versailles
    the treaty that ended WWI. restricts Germany power.
  • hitler voted to power

    hitler voted to power
    In the first round on 13 March, Hitler had polled over 11 million votes but was still behind Hindenburg. The second and final round took place on 10 April: Hitler (36.8% 13,418,547) lost to Paul von Hindenburg (53.0% 19,359,983) while the KPD candidate Thälmann gained a meagre percentage of the vote (10.2% 3,706,759).
  • hitler ollympics

    hitler ollympics
    the 1933 summer Olympics were held in Germany right before WWII and he uses propaganda to promote his ideas.
  • German invasion of poland

    German invasion of poland
    The invasion of Poland was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • tripartite pact signed

    tripartite pact signed
    On September 27, 1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war.
  • pearl harbor

    pearl harbor
    Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941.
  • Japanese Americans sent to internment camps

    Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
    Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.
  • Nazis establish gas chambers in Auschwitz

    Nazis establish gas chambers in Auschwitz
    the first gas chamber, used to murder Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis, became operational at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • D-day

    D-day
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    Iwo Jima, known in Japan as Iō Tō, is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands and lies south of the Bonin Islands. The highest point of Iwo Jima is Mount Suribachi at 169 m high american soldiers walked up the volcano to place the american flag. the japenses killed many men but after a while they finally made it.
  • Hitlers fall

    Hitlers fall
    After dictating his political testament, Hitler shot himself in his suite on April 30; Braun took poison. Their bodies were burned according to Hitler's instructions. With Soviet troops occupying Berlin, Germany surrendered unconditionally on all fronts on May 7, 1945, bringing the war in Europe to a close.
  • atomic bombs dropped on japan

    atomic bombs dropped on japan
    The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict so far
  • Axis powers surrender

    Axis powers surrender
    However, crushing defeats at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk devastated the German armed forces. This, combined with Western Allied landings in France and Italy, led to a three-front war that depleted Germany's armed forces and resulted in Germany's defeat in 1945