Hope's World War Timeline

  • Anschluss of Austria

    Anschluss of Austria

    Union of Austria to Germany orchestrated by Hitler.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    British and French convinced the Czechs to give up Sudentenland to appease hitler.
  • Nazi-Soviet pact

    Nazi-Soviet pact

    An agreement between Hitler and Stalin to keep peace between each country.
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg

    Hitler orders a "lighting war" or constant bombing on Norway and Belgium
  • Operation Sea Lion

    Operation Sea Lion

    Hitler invades Britain.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet pact and invades the Soviet Union for natural resources.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Suprise attack on American soil that killed 2,400 people and the reason America entered World War Two.
  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping

    A goal of the U.S. to defeat the Japanese one island at a time allowed them to move north.
  • "Big Three"

    "Big Three"

    FDR, Winston Churchill, and Stalin meet and decided to the first fight the war in Europe and then in the Pacific. (Japan)
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Three leaders agreed that the Soviet Union would enter war against Japan.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    U.S. invades France to defeat the Germans. (Normandy)
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    Allowed U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and China to keep peace worldwide.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    Germany Surrenders. Victory in Europe.
  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project

    A code name for the A-Bomb. Truman warned Japan but they didn't surrender.
  • A-Bomb

    U.S. drops bomb on Hiroshima.
  • A-Bomb

    U.S. drops bomb on Nagasaki.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    President Truman launched the new policy Truman Doctrine, the policy was based on the idea of containment, limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    To strengthen the Democratic Governments the U.S. offered a massive aid package.
  • Division of Germany

    Division of Germany

    Germany and Berlin eventually divided into Communist and Non-Communist zones.
  • NATO

    NATO

    United States, Canada, and 10 other countries formed a new Military alliance.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Soviet Union formed their own Military alliance.