US History Timeline project

  • D-Day

    Allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy, France, marking D-Day.
  • Japanese invasion of manchuria

    When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
  • The United States declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy

    After the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares war on japan.
  • Hitler appointed chancellor of germany

    Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany giving him power over their army forces.
  • Nanking massacre

    When Imperial Japanese troops killed and raped the residents of Nanking
  • Munich conference

    An agreement by Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy in Munich.
  • Kristallnacht

    A program against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany
  • Germanys invasion of poland

    Was an attack on the second polish republic by nazi Germany and the soviet union.
  • Dunkirk

    The Battle of Dunkirk was fought around the French port of Dunkirk during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany.
  • Selective training and service act is passed

    It was the first peacetime conscription in United States history.
  • The blitz

    The German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, also known as the lighting war.
  • Tripartite pact

    An alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • Operation barbarossa

    The code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies.
  • Japanese attack on Pear Harbor

    Japan's naval air force attacked Oahu Hawaii on its military bases.
  • Bataan Death March

    The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga
  • The battle of Midway

    the US navy defeated the Japanese navy at the battle of midway.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city
  • Allies force Italy to surrender

    Italy surrenders to the Allies, but German forces occupy northern Italy.
  • Fall of Paris

    Allies take control of Paris.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Germans counterattack in northern France, Belgium and Luxembourg
  • Yalta conference

    The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army
  • Battle of Okinawa

    U.S. soldiers and Marines invade Okinawa, Japan.
  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler holed up in a bunker, ate a cyanide pill, then shot himself in the head killing him.
  • VE Day

    Germany surrenders to the Allies
  • Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima

    The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Atomic Bomb in Nagisaki

    The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
  • VJ day

    the day that we had victory over japan.

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