The Watt Zimmerman Timeline

By ZimmermanWatt

  • Bulgaria joins Axis

    strengthened the ultimate threat to America/Democracy

  • Germany, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria invade Yugoslavia

    reasoning for this was that Yugoslavia declared that they would not join the axis - strengthened germany's power

  • Nazi Germany plus Axis partners (besides Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union

    pro germany - gaining more power - more threatening to America

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    pro Japan - Japan seeking expansion and greater empire - threatening to America/democracy

  • US declares war on Japan

    when the use got involved in WW2

  • Nazi Germany and Axis partners declare war on the US

    Germany is now definitely a prominent threat to US, involved in war against each other
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    Japan captures Burma and the Philippines

    pro japan - expanding more and more - more and more of a threat to US

  • Japan captures Singapore

    pro japan - expanding more and more - more and more of a threat to US

  • British bomb Köln (bringing war front to Germany for first time)

    first time Germany is on the defensive side and not the offensive - perhaps weak side?

  • (Battle of Midway) In central Pacific at Midway, British and US navies stop Japanese naval advance

    stop some japan expansion - weaken japan’s threatening status to US

  • US/British troops land in various parts of Algeria and Morocco. Vichy French troops fail to suppress the Allies’ move into the western border of Tunisia. This propagates German occupation in Southern France

    pro germany - gaining more power - more threatening to America

  • Soviet troops counterattack, trapping German Sixth Army in Stalingrad.

    weakens germany - weakens threat to US

  • German Sixth Army surrenders in Stalingrad, USSR

    Germany is a small threat

  • Axis troops in northern Af. surrender

    Germany is a smaller threat

  • Fascist Grand Council divests Benito Mussolini and allows Pietro Badoglio to form a new government

    weakens Italy threat to US

  • Italy surrenders

    no longer a threat to US
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    Soviet troops liberate Kiev

    germany is weakened

  • US invades Tarawa

    US gains power

  • Germany occupied Hungary for fear of Hungary leaving Axis powers and appointed a pro-German minister president

    germany is still a threat but weaker than before

  • Allied troops liberate Rome

    allies are gaining more power

  • British/US troops begin invasion when they land in France

    allies are gaining more power

  • Finland leaves Axis powers

    Axis powers are weakened

  • Japan’s army defeated near the Philippines

    allies are gaining power

  • Battle of the Bulge

    allies are gaining more power
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    Iwo Jima is captured by Allied Forces

    allies are gaining more power

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Germany is weakened tremendously - don’t have a leader anymore

  • Germany surrenders

    allies are gaining more power - germany is no longer a threat

  • Atomic bombs drop on Hiroshima and Nagasak

    allies are gaining more power - Japan is weakened

  • Soviet Union declares war on Japan, invades Manchuria

    Japan is weakened and is less of a threat

  • Japan signs surrender agreement

    Officially no longer a threat.