US History Timeline

  • Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese claimed that Chinese soldiers sabotaged the railway and attacked the Chinese army. Japenese ended conquering Manchuria.
  • Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

    President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues.
  • Nanking Massacre/ Rape of Nanking

    Nanking Massacre/ Rape of Nanking

    mass killing and the ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China. Many Chinese women were raped.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was not at the conference they felt betrayed by the French and British governments.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany.
  • Non Aggression Pact is signed

    Non Aggression Pact is signed

    a treaty between two or more states/countries that include a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.
  • Germany's Invasion of Poland/ Blitzkrieg

    Germany's Invasion of Poland/ Blitzkrieg

    an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • Fall of Paris

    Fall of Paris

    was the german invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands during the Second World War. France declared war on Germany after the German invasion of Poland
  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

    Dunkirk evacuation in World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England
  • The Blitz

    The Blitz

    The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
  • Selective Training and Service Act is passed

    Selective Training and Service Act is passed

    the Act established the first peacetime draft in the United States. the act is that all American males between twenty-one and thirty-six years of age registered for the draft. The government selected men through a lottery system
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    The German invasion of the soviet union
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Since early 1941 the U.S. had been supplying Great Britain in its fight against the Nazis. It had also been pressuring Japan to halt its military expansion in Asia and the Pacific.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    The forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    the last major German military offensive in western Europe
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    American forces invaded the island. The Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa

    World War II battle fought between U.S. and Japanese forces on Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands. the largest of the Ryukyu Islands. ... In addition, at least 100,000 civilians were either killed in combat or were ordered to commit suicide by the Japanese military
  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
  • Dropping the atomic bombs

    Dropping the atomic bombs

    an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. three days later we dropped another bomb
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end