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Schwertner: WWII Timeline

  • Invasion of Manchuria

    Invasion of Manchuria
    Japan invades Manchuria. Japan invaded Manchuria because they needed more land.
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  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia
    Facist Italy has invaded Ethiopia. They conquered Ethiopia. Italy wants another Roman Empire. Lasts until May 1936
  • Anti-Comitern Pact

    Anti-Comitern Pact
    Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern pact. It is directed against the Soviet Union and the communist movement.
  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades China
    WWII in the Pacific has started.
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    Germany takes Austria and makes Anschluss
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    The night of broken glass in Germany. Involves the Jews and leading to the Holocaust.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    Germnay had invaded Poland, and then initiating World War 2
  • Blitzkreig

    Blitzkreig
    Hitler launched rthe lightning war.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    Germany vs Soviet Union.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    First time American's see combat.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Invasion of Normandy, France. America and Great Britain.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    Key battle and ended January 25, 1945. It was on the Western Front
  • FDR Dies

    FDR Dies
    FDR dies after 4th term as president. He had a brain hemmorage.
  • Battle of Berlin

    Battle of Berlin
    The battle of Berlin is between German and Soviet forces. Germany's Hitler commits suicide in the fuherbunker and Germany loses.
  • Mussolini Captured

    Mussolini Captured
    Italian people captured and executed him. They hung him up and vandalized his body.
  • Hitler is Dead

    Hitler is Dead
    Hitler commits suicide with his beloved Eva Braun.
  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders
    After the battle of Berlin, Germany surrenders to the Soviet Union
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima
    America drops and atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders
    Japan surrenders formally and WW2 is over.