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Significant Events from WWII

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    A negotiation between the allied powers where they decided that Germany was to pay reparations
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Was an idea of Woodrow Wilson where the allied powers wold come together and try to come up with a way to prevent wars but was all bark and no bite.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    A period of genocide in which Hitler's Nazi army murdered millions of Jews
  • Beginning of WWII

    Beginning of WWII

    Poland and other countries are invaded, thus beginning the second World War
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

    This was a response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain, and France.
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg

    Hitler's method of war in where he strikes fast which is why it is also known as " lightening war".
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    A combat between Hitler and Britain in which the royal air force defended Britain against the bombing
  • British attack Italians

    British attack Italians

    Allies launched into battle against the Italians in Africa
  • Invasion of Russia

    Invasion of Russia

    Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union as the largest German military operation of World War II.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japan drops bombs on Hawaii
  • Britain declare war on Japan

    Britain declare war on Japan

    As the America's Pacific fleet lays in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, receives, and declares war on Japan
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Last major German offensive campaign of World War ll
  • Bataan March

    Bataan March

    Forceful transfer of the Filipinos or prisoners of war by the Japanese
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Naval battle between the US and Japan in which the US defeated an attacking fleet
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The day the allied forces invaded Northern France on beach landings
  • Creation of Internment camps

    Creation of Internment camps

    The US created these camps and forced the Japanese into them, under the suspicion that they were spies
  • Death of Franklin Roosevelt

    Death of Franklin Roosevelt

  • German forces surrender

    German forces surrender

  • Victory Day in Europe

    Victory Day in Europe

    On May 8th in 1945 German troops surrendered and called a cease-fire and laid down their arms. It was a victory for Europe, no more Nazis.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    The first ever atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima