lilmans time line of WWII

By arget_skulblaka
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    WWII began and end

  • vichy france begins

  • battle of britain

    battle of britain

    this was a major battle for britain this showed that there air force is the best and thats what kept them from being captured and the english channel

  • FDR approves “shoot on sight”

  • Japan joins Axis

    japan joining the axis power gave germany russia and italy more confidence in winning the war.

  • gemany invades russia

    russia now nows that they can't trust germany
  • attack on peral herbor

    attack on peral herbor

    7 December 1941

  • Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washinton, DC

    the japanese ambassadors was trying to get america to draw out of the pacific.

  • germany and italy declare war on USA

    this attack brings america into the war.

  • i shall return

    But he made this promise to the Filipinos: “I shall return.”

  • Bataan death march

  • battle of the coral sea

    May 7-8, 1942

  • battle of midway

    4 June 1942

  • guadaicanal

  • operation torch

    November 8-10, 1942
  • battle of stalingrad

    battle of stalingrad

    February 2, 1943

  • battle of sicily

    9 July-17 August 1943

  • fall of rome

  • D-Day

    June 6, 1944

  • MacArthur returns

  • Kamikaze attacks begin

    Kamikaze attacks begin

    21 October 1944

  • battle of the bulge

    16December 1944

  • US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi

    23 Feb

  • truman becomes president

    April 12, 1945

  • hitler commits suicide

  • V-E day

    refered to as victory over europe
  • Okinawa taken

    Okinawa taken

  • Hiroshima

  • nagasaki

    August 9, 1945

  • formal surrender of japan

    2 September 1945

  • V- J Day

    v-jay day is what people refer to as victory over japan.