World War II

Timeline created by brian.adams

Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/18/1931	jaapann	Japann had conquered Machuria in Chiina by Hideki Tojo.
03/23/1933	Hitler becomes Dictator	Adolf Hitler beat Paul von Hindenburg in the 1933 elections and became dictator of Germany. Hitler was one of the cruelest leaders in history. He killed so many people because of his own assuptions.
09/01/1939	Invasion of Poland	Germans invaded Poland at day break. Germans thundered across Poland border at 0445 hours
09/03/1939	Countries Fight Back	Germans invaded Poland at day break. Germans thundered across Poland border at 0445 hours
04/09/1940	Denmark and Norway	Germans invaded Poland at day break. Germans thundered across Poland border at 0445 hours
05/10/1940	Invasions	Germany invaded France, Belgium and Netherlands.
10/28/1940	Italian forces	Italian forces in Albania invade Greece. Tanks occupied Albania into the mountains of Epirus before dawn.
01/19/1941	United States Enacts the Lend-Lease Bill	The United States President was presented a dilemma when "the bomb" was developed. It was a weapon that would end the war and end the loss of U.S. soldiers. We had already lost so many soldiers during the invasion of Normandy. Nobody wanted to endure another "D-Day" type Of losses. The reality is, there were far fewer lost lives IN JAPAN as a result Of the bomb than were projected would have resulted from an all-out invasion.
10/18/1941	Tojo	Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan.
12/07/1941	pearl harbor	A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.
12/11/1941	US starts to fight	Germany and Italy declare war on the US.
01/02/1942	Manila	Manila and U.S. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese.
02/19/1942	the largest Japanese air raid since Pearl Harbor Occurs against Darwin, Australia; Japanese invade Bali.	the largest Japanese air raid since Pearl Harbor Occurs against Darwin, Australia; Japanese invade Bali.
04/09/1942	bataan Death march =O	Allied POWs [prisoner of war ] with hands tied behind their backs pause during the Bataan Death March. AbOut 76,OOO prisoners including 12,OOO Americans were forced on the 6O mile march under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp in the Philippines.
05/08/1942	battle of thee Coral Sea	was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War 2 between the Imperial Japanese Navy , United States and Australia. It was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.
06/03/1942	battle of the midway	was a battle carrier based on airplanes. The Japanese lost aircraft carriers that they could not replace. The US lost some ships, but not nearly as many as the other side.
09/26/1942	atomic bombs	aliied scientist had been workinq on what became an alternative in invadinq japan . The scientist worked to develop an atomic bomb, a weapon that produced qreatt destructivee power by splittinq an atom known as the Manhattan project . This huqee effoRt to develop an atomic bomb employed more than 6OO,OOO people.
11/11/1942	More land	Germany and Italy occupy perviously unoccupied Vichy, France
02/02/1943	Surrender	Last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
05/13/1943	German goes down	German troops in North Africa surrender
10/13/1943	Declare War	Italy declares war on Germany
06/06/1944	D-Day	US, British and Canadian armes land in Norway operation overload begins
06/06/1944	The Bomb	The United States President was presented a dilemma when "the bomb" was developed. It was a weapon that would end the war and end the loss of U.S. soldiers. We had already lost so many soldiers during the invasion of Normandy. Nobody wanted to endure another "D-Day" type Of losses. The reality is, there were far fewer lost lives IN JAPAN as a result Of the bomb than were projected would have resulted from an all-out invasion.
07/20/1944	Bomb goes off	An attempt by ranking German officers to kill Hitler fails; the bomb only wounds him.
10/07/1944	Battle Leyte Gulf	The larqest naval battle in history. Between Japanese and mostly U. S. forces in the air, onn thee surfacee, and from beneath the surface of waterss surrounding the Japaaanese-occupied Philippine Islands, which were being invaded by the U. S. Army.
11/06/1944	President again?	Roosevelt wins forth presidental term
12/16/1944	Battle of the Bulge	German counter attack in the Ardennes in south Belgium.
04/18/1945	Trapped and surrendered	A German army group trapped in 'Ruhr Pocket' om Germany surrenders: 325,000 prisoners are taken.
04/29/1945	The last time	German forces in Italy surrender unconditionally.
04/30/1945	Hitler no more	Adolf Hitler kills himself
08/08/1945	naval disaster	A major U.S. naval disaster, north of Guadalcanal, as eight Japanese warships wage a night attack and sink three U.S. heavy cruisers, an Australian cruiser, and U.S. destroyer, all in less than an hour. Another U.S. cruiser and two destroyers are damaged. Over 1,500 Allied crewmen are lost.
09/02/1945	Japanese surrender	Formal Japanese surrender ceremony on board the MiSSOURi in Tokyo Bay as 1,000 carrier-based planes fly overhead; President Truman declares VJ Day
09/09/1945	Japanese in Korea surrender.	Japanese in Korea surrender.