word war II

  • japan manchura

    japan manchura
    In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army.
  • hitler comes to power

    hitler comes to power
    Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed Chancellor of Germany, stood in a government building at an open window watching a torchlight parade of 25,000 Nazi troops march through the streets of Berlin
  • japan ivades china

    japan ivades china
    The Japan-China War started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing.
  • germany invades poland

    germany invades poland
    The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy
  • germany invades russia

    German forces have invaded the Soviet Union.
    In a pre-dawn offensive, German troops pushed into the USSR from the south and west
  • pearl harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941
  • japan invades southeast

  • battle of midway

    battle of midway
    The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II
  • D day

    World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  • battle of stralingrad

    battle of stralingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe
  • tokyo petitions for peace

    tokyo ask for peace on the condition that emperor hirohito will retain his throne. they accepted
  • hiliter died

    hiliter kills himself
  • the pacific theatre

    the american air force in europe heads for the war in the pacific
  • V day

    victory day o mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
  • germany gave up

    germany surrend in war
  • atomic bomb was tested

    an atomic bomb is successfully detonated in the new mexico desert
  • hiroshima

    the US drops an atomicbomb, the first to be used in warfare
  • soviet union enters pacific

    still with no surrender from japan the soviet union enters the pacific was as promised in yalta defeating japanese forces in manchuria
  • nagasaki

    the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped
  • world war ll ended

    the war came to an end