WWII Timeline Project

  • Bolshevik Revolution

    Was actually two revolutions, one was in March called the Febuary Revolution and one in November called the October Revolution. The Febuary Revolution forced the Tsar to abdicate and set up probisional government made mostly of Democratic Socialist reformers. The October Revolution was when the Bolshevik's deposed the probisonal government.
  • Treaty of Versailes

    It was a peace treaty at the end of World War 1 and ended the state of war between Germany and the allied powers.
  • Enlgand refuses to renew its alliance with England

    England didn't want to be taken advantage of for another five years so they didn't sign.
  • Washington naval conference

    Washington naval conference

    conference discussed a naval disarnment and ways to releace growing tension in East Asia
  • Stalin comes to power in Russia

    Stalin comes to power in Russia

    Stalin was apponted general secertary of the parties centeral commitee in 1922
  • Rapallo Treaty

    Rapallo Treaty

    it was between Germany and the Soviet Union. signed at Rapallo Italy. It reestablished normal relations between two nations.
  • Benito Mussolini comes to power in italy

    he was destroying alot of things in italiy so that he could take over
  • Beer Hall Pursch

    Beer Hall Pursch

    was hitlers attmpt to ver throw the weimar government of ebert and establish a right wing nationalic won in its place
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    it was a commitee trying to collect repuation devit from germany
  • Mein Kamph Published

    it was a blue print of his agenda for third rich and a clear explosion of the nightmare that will envelope europe from 1939-1945
  • Enigma Machine

    Used to break coded messages used by the enemies
  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash

    when wall street crashed in October
  • French begin constructing the Maginot line

    French begin constructing the Maginot line

    a line of men with weapons along Germanys border
  • Japan invades manchiria

    Japan invades manchiria

    when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army immediately following the Mukden Incident.
  • First Concenrration Camps

    First Concenrration Camps

    Dachau was the first concentration camp opening, the camp killed 31,000 people
  • Ukrainian Famine

    Ukrainian Famine

    was a deadly famine that started in ukarinian.The heaviest losses occurred in Ukraine, which had been the most productive agricultural area of the Soviet Union. Stalin was determined to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism.
  • Night of long knives

    Night of long knives

    th nazi parties attmpt to take out all of the high powers in the current ermany government and opposing party leader
  • Hitler Declares himself Fuher

    Hitler Declares himself Fuher

    Hitler declares himself these to begin his genocide on the jewish plague
  • The Great Terror

    The Great Terror

    a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union.
  • Hitler made chancellor of Germany

    Hitler made chancellor of Germany

    Hitler was leader of the leader of the National Soloist German workers party and became the Fuhrer of Germany
  • Berlin Olymics

    Berlin Olymics

    Berlin won the bid to host the games over Spain
  • Rape of nanking

    Rape of nanking

    mass rape and mass murder performed by the Japanize trouped
  • Hitler invades Austria

    Hitler invades Austria

    A union between Germany and Austria had been forbidden under the terms of the Versailles Treaty.Between 1933 and 1935, Austria had been protected against any German bullying by Italy.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to come certain areas of Czechoslovakia.
  • Hitler invades the Sudetenland

    Hitler invades the Sudetenland

    The Sudetenland contained 3.5 million Germans who had been cut off from the rest of Germany after the creation of Czechoslovakia. Hitler felt he had a gooreason upon the area because he saw it as German land.
  • Hilter conquers the rest of Czechoslovakia

    Hilter conquers the rest of Czechoslovakia

    itler invades Czechoslovakia Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
  • Einsein writes a letter to FDR on the possiblility of Atomic Weaons

    Einsein writes a letter to FDR on the possiblility of Atomic Weaons

    stated that there is possiblity for atomic weapons to be created and that Germany could be creating them
  • Nazi Soviet Anti-Agression Pact

    Nazi Soviet Anti-Agression Pact

    was signed between Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotovand and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland

    They are in the way because they are allied with the united states and Britian and they were in the middle of Hitlers way so he took care of them.
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain broadcast the announcement that the country was at war.
  • Krystallacht

    Krystallacht

    Series of events atrtacking jews in Germany and parts of Austria, destroyed Jewish businesses amd ransacked their homes, burned warshipping places
  • Winter War between Finland and Russia

    Winter War between Finland and Russia

    was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939–1940. It began with Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939
  • Nazi accupation of Norway

    The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway.
  • Winston Churchill comes to power in England

    one of the greates war leader Italian on the Western front and became the leader after coming home
  • defeat of French army by the nazis

    defeat of French army by the nazis

    quick lose and the soilders could not even make it through the battle field to fight off the nazi invaders, because France had a powerful militery
  • Battle of Britian

    Battle of Britian

    crucial turning point, germany was not able to make Britian surrender
  • Nazi Final Solution Developed

    Nazi Final Solution Developed

    The final plan was Nazis grouped up the Jews and put them in ghettos and started mass slaughtering
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    four million Germand attacked the USSR more than 95% of the German casualities came from this opperation and 65% allied casulties came from this also
  • US Neutrality Acts

    US Neutrality Acts

    god rid of the US neaurtrality acts after the attack on Pearl harbor
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Surprise attack by japanise kamakazi's destroying multiple american war ships and killing hundereds of american soilders
  • FDR signs executive order 9066 beginning Japanese internment

    FDR signs executive order 9066 beginning Japanese internment

    allowed to begin involvment with japan and to pretty much start the war with them
  • Battle of Mid Way

    Battle of Mid Way

    Happened only six months after pearl haror, as the largest and best naval fight in the history, Victory for the Allies
  • Desert Campains

    Desert Campains

    faught against the acces troups in Africa, helped Britian fight them
  • Island Hoping

    Island Hoping

    Led to the surrender of the Japenese after attacking the weark islands in the Philipines
  • The Manhattan project begins

    The Manhattan project begins

    began funding for the US to start creating weapons of mass distruction.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    storming the beaches of normmdny by the american soilders unto a heavily fordified German camp
  • Operation Market Garden

    Operation Market Garden

    Largest air battle is US history, intent was to capture bridges
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Caought the alllies by surprie and was the most expensive battle for them, but also depleted many german war supplies
  • US victory Iwo Jima

    US victory Iwo Jima

    The winning in Iwo Jima was easy for the US because of their surperior air support and weapons and gave us good posioning for war on japan
  • The Dealth of FDR

    The Dealth of FDR

    FDR died after he ran the US militery for 7 years
  • Hitler commits succide

    Hitler commits succide

    after he heard of multple losses so close to him he appoint a new leader to the German militerym, and took a gun shot to the head
  • Surrender of Germany

    Surrender of Germany

    A series of defeats lead to the fall of the Nazi empire in Germany after their leader Hiter committed siuced
  • First Successful test of atomic bomb

    First Successful test of atomic bomb

    the first atom bomb was labeled a success after blowing up 40,000 feet up into the air
  • Bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki

    Bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki

    BombedHiroshima becauseofits idustrial advantage, iots military base,and to show Everyone our new toy
  • Surrender of japan

    Surrender of japan

    after accepting the terms of the allies japan surrerenderd two weeks later aboard the USS Missouri