World War Two Timeline

  • German Anschluss with Austria

    German Anschluss with Austria
    Hitler decided to get all the German people to unify before the war.
  • Treaty of Munich

    Treaty of Munich
    Hitler joined up with Italy with a treaty and the people were forced to surrender
  • Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

    Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
    Hitler did the big lie and invaded the country to occupy it.
  • Russia and Germany Sign Pact

    Russia and Germany Sign Pact
    Hitler signed a non aggression pact with Russia which would secretly divide up parts of Poland.
  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Hitler Invades Poland
    Hitler decided to invade Poland.
  • Britain and France Declare War

    Britain and France Declare War
    The two countries declared war on Germany and announced the war to their people.
  • Hitler invades Denmark and Norway

    Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
    Hitler invades the two countries to "safeguard" some Swedish ore and to secure a location for a Norwegian base so they could break a blockade of the British navy.
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg
    Hitler sent war to Belgium and Holland where they almost bombed a city to extinction.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    Hitler started attacking Britain targeting ports and larger industrial cities by bombing them normally at night.
  • Hitler attacks Russia – Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler attacks Russia – Operation Barbarossa
    Hitler sent a 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia by surprise. Stalin signed a treaty with Britain and launched and Eastern battle front that killed 20 million with the AID of the U.S. with gun supply under the USSR.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor as a way to take colonies of the British, French, and Dutch in Southeast Asia.
  • Britain and US declare war on Japan

    Britain and US declare war on Japan
    The British and the US officially declare war on Japan.
  • Japanese take Singapore

    Japanese take Singapore
    Japan takes Singapore from Britian along with 60,000 prisoners.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The U.S. wins a battle againsed the Japanease navy effectivly pushing the Japaniese back.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
    Montgomery attacks German army with armord forces and chased the enemy for 1500 miles.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Russia wins their first battle againsed Germany.
  • Allies take Sicily

    Allies take Sicily
    US and British forces invade Sicily and end up taking it over.
  • Axis surrender N Africa

    Axis surrender N Africa
    American and British forces manage to defeat the Axis army leading to their surrender.
  • Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders
    Mussolini was thrown out of office and the new Italian government surrendered. Then Italy's army was taken over by the German army.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Allies launched an attack on German soldiers in Normandy, the goal was to take over the port, they did this by having a large army invade the island with 1000's of boats filled with soldiers.
  • Death of Roosevelt

    Death of Roosevelt
    FDR was assassinated and was succeeded by Truman.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide
    Hitler comits suicide with his new wife in a bomb shelter.
  • German forces surrender

    German forces surrender
    German forces in Italy surrender.
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
    Since the Japanese refuse to surrender the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

    The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing 40,000.
  • Japanese Surrender

    Japan surrenders after the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.