WWII timeline

By avareis.8

  • Anschluss

    Unification of Austria and Germany
    (E)

  • Munich Conference

    GB and France give Hitler Sudetenland
    (E)

  • Nonagression Pact

    Germany and USSR agree not to fight
    (E)

  • Germany invades Poland

    Start of WWII
    (E)

  • Battle of Britian

    3 month bombing of Great Britian
    (E)

  • Miracle at Dunkirk

    338,000 troops escaped German captured
    (E)

  • Paris Captured

    France surrendered to Germany
    (E)

  • Germany invades USSR

    Violates Nonaggression Treaty
    (E)

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan's Unprovoked Attack on U.S.
    (P)

  • U.S. Declares War on Japan

    FDR makes a speech to Congress, "...a date that will live in infamy"
    (P)

  • Germany Declares War on U.S.

    Hitler allied with Japan and they hoped for help against the USSR
    (E)

  • Doolittle Raid

    American bombs falls in Japan for the first time
    (P)

  • Battle of Midway

    Turning in war with Japan
    (P)

  • Kasserine Pass

    First U.S. Battle against Germany (Bad Loss)
    (E)

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    10-month battle ends; turning point in war
    (E)

  • Battle of Bulge

    Last German Offense- Allies Win
    (E)(P)

  • MacArthur Returns to Philippines

    Famous speech "I Have Returned"
    (P)

  • Rome Falls

    Italy surrendered and Mussolini is executed
    (E)

  • D-Day

    Allies land in Normandy Liberation of France
    (E)

  • Iwo Jima

    Captured by U.S.; Marienes raised flag
    (P)

  • V-E-Day

    WWII ends in Europe
    (E)

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped

    Dropped: over 120,000 die at Hiroshima
    (P)

  • V-J-Day

    WWII ends in Japan
    (P)