World War 2

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Polish defeated.
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

    Finland gives up.
  • Battle of France

    Battle of France

  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain.

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain.

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Series of air battles between Great Britain and Germany.
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Expanded area for to make easier to transfer supplies across USSR.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Germans failed; Soviet was too strong.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Aftermath caused tons of deaths and destruction in Stalingrad.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    US destroyed Japan’s 4 naval aircraft carriers.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    Turning point of the Western Desert.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    The US wanted to stop the Japanese from making the airbase there.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    Americans make Japanese internment camps.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    Discuss D-Day, war strategy, and defeating Japan.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The bloodiest water-land invasion.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Meeting of the heads of government discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
  • F.D.R’s death

    F.D.R’s death

    Died of cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination

    To protect compromising letters.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    Because of his death being close, he killed himself.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Discussed post-war arrangements in Europe
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan

    Japan recovers from the war.
  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    U.S bombs Hiroshima in response to Pearl Harbor.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Time where Hitler took control over jews and broke them.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Series of military trials for bringing down Nazi criminals.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan