ConnorMatthes: WW2 Chronology

By connor_332

  • The Anshluss of Austria

    The Anshluss of Austria
    Hitler took control of Austria,violated the Versailles Treatyand crated a brief war scare. The union of Austria and Germany.

  • The Munic Conference

    The Munic Conference
    Britian and Farance gave into Hitlers demands and made the Czechs give up important land.

  • Nazi Soviet Pact

    Nazi Soviet Pact
    Russia and Germany made a pact to keep peace.

  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg
    Hitler orders a carpet bombing on Norway and Belgium.

  • Operation Sea Lion

    Operation Sea Lion
    Hitler invades Britian.

  • Opertaion Barbarosa

    Opertaion Barbarosa
    Hitler breaks pact and invades Soviet Union to take over their vast natural resources.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii casuing 2,400 american casualties.

  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping
    A goal of the U.S to defeat the Japanese one island at a time and allowed them to move North.

  • Big Three

    Big Three
    FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet and decide to first fight the war in Europed and the in the Pacific.

  • The Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference
    The Big Three decided to fight Japan within 3 months of Germanys surrender.

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    U.S invades France to defeat the Germans.

  • United Nations

    United Nations
    The World Police

  • V-E Day

    V-E Day
    The day that Europe had been granted victory in a battle of WW2.

  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project
    A code name for the atomic bomb. Truman warned Japan that they should surrender because of the WMD that the U.S had.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima
    The U.S felt that they had to prove Japan something and dropped a nuclear bomb carrying 2,000 tons on TNT and destroying Hiroshima.

  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Bombing of Nagasaki
    The bombing of Nagasaki was the last major act of WW2 and the Japanese surrendered within days.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Limiting communism to the ares already under Soviet control.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    A plan to strengthen democratic government, U.S offered a massive aid package.

  • The Division of Germany

    The Division of Germany
    After its defeat in World War II, Germany was divided into four zones under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union.

  • NATO

    NATO
    It is often said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union.

  • War Saw Pact

    War Saw Pact
    A pact made to protect Soviet