WWII timeline-Ailin

By Ailin Garcia

  • Anschluss (E)

    Unification of Austria and Germany

  • Munich Conference (E)

    GB and France gave Hitler Sudetenland

  • Nonaggression Pact (E)

    Germany and USSR agreed not to fight

  • Germany Invades Poland (E)

    Started WWll

  • Battle of Britain (E)

    3 month bombing of Great Britain

  • Miracle at Dunkirk (E)

    338,000 troops escaped Germans captured

  • Paris Captured (E)

    France surrendered to Germany

  • Germany Invades USSR (E)

    Violates nonaggression treaty

  • Pearl Harbor (P)

    Japan's Unprovoked Attack on the U.S.

  • U.S. Declares War on Japan (P)

    FDR makes a speech to Congress "...a date that will live infamy"

  • Germany Declares War on U.S. (E)

    Hitler allied with Japan and they hoped to help against the USSR

  • Battle of Bulge (E) (P)

    Last German offense - allies win

  • Dolittle Raid (P)

    American bombs falls in Japan for the first time

  • Battle of Midway (P)

    Turning in war with Japan

  • Kasserine Pass (E)

    First U.S. battle against Germany (bad loss)

  • Battle of Stelingrad (E)

    10 month battle ends, turning point in the war

  • MacArthur Returns to Philippines (P)

    Famous speech "I Have Returned"

  • Rome Falls (E)

    Italy surrendered and Mussolini is executed

  • D-Day (E)

    Allies land in Normandy Liberation in France

  • Iwo Jima (P)

    Captured by the U.S.; Marienes raised flags

  • V-E-Day (E)

    WWII ends in Europe

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped (P)

    Dropped: over 120,000 die at Hiroshima

  • V-J-Day (P)

    WWII ends in Japan