Ww2 records us

Option 1: Timeline of WW2

  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland

    Hitler threatened to unleash war unto Europe unless Sudetenland was surrendered to him. It was given to Germany as a exchange for peace.
  • Island-Hopping

    Island-Hopping

    The U.S. used Island Hopping as their Pacific Strategy during WWII. They moved from island to island in Japan in order to seize not well defended locations. This went from 1941-1944
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The bombing of Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii by the Japanese to lure the United States into the war. This is also known as "a date which will live in infamy."
  • The Philippines

    The Philippines

    The Philippines were attacked 9 hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. The Allied forces liberated the islands from Japanese control in 1944
  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos

    This was also known as the place for the Manhattan Project. The U.S. were testing atomic bombs in order to use on the Japanese to get them to surrender. This occurred in 1942-1943
  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps

    Camps where Americans of Japanese Heritage were forced to stay. They put them in camps because they were worried that they would have connections to Japan/ were spies.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    This happened 6 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. United states launched a surprise attack on a huge Japan naval base almost in revenge for Pearl Harbor. It ended Jun 7, 1942
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    Also known as Operation Watchtower. A fight between the American forces against the Japanese for Guadalcanal. It ended on February 9, 1943. Link: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    The day Germany invaded The Soviet Union for land in Southern Russia. The Soviet Union won and this led to the destruction of the German 6th Army. It ended Feb 2, 1943
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The Allied powers launched an attack on Nazi occupied France. This was a victory for the Allied powers.
  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta

    A big meeting with the leaders of the Allied Powers to discuss the postwar effects with Germany and the rest of Europe. It ended Feb 11, 1945
  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin

    The Berlin wall separated East and West Germany. The falling of the wall marked the beginning of the end of The Cold War. It ended May 2, 1945
  • Death Of Hitler

    Death Of Hitler

    He knew he was going to lose the war so he hid himself in a bunker to live out his final few days. He appointed a new chancellor and this also ended his "1,000 year riech" link: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide#:~:text=On%20April%2030%2C%201945%2C%20holed,%E2%80%9C1%2C000%2Dyear%E2%80%9D%20Reich.
  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam

    The last conference with The Big Three in Berlin, Germany discussing a unconditional surrender for Japan. Ended Aug 2, 1945
    Link: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    This is the first place in Japan that the atomic bomb was dropped. Caused devastating casualties and when the Americans dropped this bomb they hoped the Japanese would surrender. Link:https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki