Ryan Monaghan WWII Chronology

  • Anchluss of Austria

    Anchluss of Austria

    The union of Austria and Germany orchestrated by Hitler.
  • Munich Confrence

    Munich Confrence

    British and French leaders chose appeasment for Hitlers demands(sudentenland). which they got from the Czechs.
  • Nazi Soviet Pact

    Nazi Soviet Pact

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

    Hitlers Blitzkrieg

    Hitler orders a "lighting war" or constant bombing.
  • Operation Sea Lion

    Operation Sea Lion

    Hitler invades Britain.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler breaks the Nazi Soviet pact and invades the Soviet union to take natural resources.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Surprise attack on American soil from japan, the cause of the US joining WWII.
  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping

    a goal of the US to defeat the Japanese one island at a time, and allowed them to move north.
  • Battle of El Alamein (big 3)

    Battle of El Alamein (big 3)

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

    Yalta confrence

    The big 3 strategized on what Stalin and the Soviet Union would do.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Surprise attack from the allies on the beaches of Normandy, France.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    The UN would play a greater role in the world affairs than did its precessor, the League of Nations.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    Germany surredened. offically the war in Europe ended the next day.
  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project

    A code name for the atomic bomb. Truman warned the japanese that they should surrender because of the US' WMD.
  • The A-Bomb

    The A-Bomb

    Japan refuses to surrender twice , so the US bombed Hiroshima.
  • The A-Bonb

    The A-Bonb

    The US drops the Atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The idea of containment, and limitation of communism to the areas alreadu under Soviet control.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    to strangthen democratic governments.
  • Division of Germany

    Division of Germany

    Eastern and Western coundties split and took control of parts of Germany.
  • NATO

    NATO

    Treaty where members pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked.
  • The Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union's own military alliance.