WWII Timeline Ethan Hewlett

By ehewlett

  • Vichy France Begins

  • Battle for Britain

    First campaign to ever be fought 100% by air forces.

  • Japan Joins Axis

  • Hitler Invades USSR

  • FDR Approves Shoot on Sight

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    What caused the U.S. to declare war on Japan.

  • Bataan Death March

    Japan harshly treats and murders war prisoners and civilians while prisoners are being moved.

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Important loss for Germany against Britain.

  • Guadalcanal

    Japan reached area to start building airway.

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle that was most significant in Pacific campaign.

  • General Eisenhower and his forces land in North Africa

    Landed in North Africa to plan out taking over Sicily and be close.

  • US forced out of Philippines

  • End of Battle of Staingrad

  • D-Day

    Day Europe was infiltrated.

  • Rome Falls

  • MacArthur Returns to Philippines

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • US flag raised on Mt Suribachi

  • Hiroshima Nuclear Attack

    1st Nuclear attack.

  • Truman now president

    Roosevelt passed, Truman takes over.

  • Hitler commits suicide

    He and wife Eva kill themselves before they can be captured.

  • V-E Day

    Fighting in Europe over.

  • Nagasaki

    Second and last nuclear attack on Japan.

  • V-J Day

    Japan fighting is over.

  • Japan Formally Surrenders

    Surrenders after two nuclear attacks.

  • Japanese ambassadors arrive in DC

    they discuss the Pacific island violations.