Ww2

World War 2 timeline By Jon Brady and Julian Castillo

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  • Blitzkriege

    Blitzkriege
    headline word applied retrospectively to describe a military doctrine of an all-mechanized force concentrating its attack on a small section of the enemy fron
  • Hittler invades poland

    Hittler invades poland
    on 31 August 1939, on September 1, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west.
  • Holocaust beings at Auschwitz

    Holocaust beings at Auschwitz
    Death camp were jews were sent (and many others) to be killed.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    the name given to the sustained strategic effort by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during the summer and autumn of 1940 to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22 June 1941.
  • Siege of Leningrad

    Siege of Leningrad
    was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from 9 September 1941, to 18 January 1943, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets
  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
    a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • Us enters WW2

    Us enters WW2
    Japan pushes US into WW2 on this date.
  • Battle of the coral sea

    Battle of the coral sea
    was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Allied forces of the United States Navy and the Royal Australian Navy.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Amajor naval battle, regarded as the most important of the Pacific Campaign of World War II
  • First Battle of El Alamein

    First Battle of El Alamein
    was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces commanded by Erwin Rommel, and Allied forces commanded by Claude Auchinleck
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    was a battle between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal
    Decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily United States) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands.
  • Battle of Monte Cassino

    Battle of Monte Cassino
    was a costly series of four battles during World War II, fought by the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome.
  • Normandy Landing ( D-Day)

    Normandy Landing ( D-Day)
    The first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    Operation Detachment, was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima
    Bombing of japanese city by President henry S truman.
  • Atomic bombings of Nagasaki

    Atomic bombings of Nagasaki
    nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945