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Megan's WWII Timeline

  • WWII

    WWII

    WWII officially started when Germany attacked Poland
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacked the US by bombing Pearl Harbor
  • Operation Barbossa

    Operation Barbossa

    Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Americans cracked Japanese code and destroyed many japanese carriers
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal

    First offensive battle for the Americans, they discovered that the Japaneses would fight to the death.
  • Battle of Alamein

    Battle of Alamein

  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch

    British-American invasion of French North Africa
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe
  • Invasion od Sicily

    Codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers
  • Battle of Hiroshima

    Battle of Hiroshima

  • Invasion of Anzio

    Invasion of Anzio

  • Siege of Leningrad

    Siege of Leningrad

    Prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied Powers crossed into France and began the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Took place in Philipppines and Japan used Kamikaze pilots
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    German offensive campaign launched in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    United States fought for the island in order to use it for the air strips it provided
  • Roosevelts death

    Roosevelts death

  • Unconditional Surrender: Hitler blames Jews and commits suicide the next day

    Unconditional Surrender: Hitler blames Jews and commits suicide the next day

  • VE Day

    VE Day

    The day that the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi, Germany, and the end of Adolf Hitler
  • VJ Day: Japan surrenders

    VJ Day: Japan surrenders