WWII Timeline

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. This brought the US to fight in WWII.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    This battle was naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII. This battle was only 6 months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • D - Day

    D - Day
    It was the Battle of Normandy which lasted June to August. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches. This resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    Taking place in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, this the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    Taking place in Japan, this was a major battle in which the US landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Army during WWII.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    This was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa. United States Marine and Army forces against the Japanese Army.
  • Liberation of Nazi Camps

    Liberation of Nazi Camps
    Allies began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Some prisoners survived and millions didn't...... But the prisoners who survived suffered from starvation and disease.
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    This celebration was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces.
  • Dropping of the Atomic Bombs

    Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
    President Harry S. Truman ordered that the new weapon, the atomic bomb, to be dropped on Japan to slowly stop the war. The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • VJ DAY

    VJ DAY
    It's the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II. This effected the END of WWII!!!!!