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War began
World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. -
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Announcement of War
September 3, Prime Minister Chamberlain went to the airwaves to announce to the British people that a state of war existed between their country and Germany. World War II had begun. -
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France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II -
Yugoslavia joins forces
In March 1941 Yugoslavia, under intense pressure from Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, joined the Axis powers. -
Agreements
Germans invade the Ukraine. Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets -
USA enter to the war
Japan makes a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii declaring war on Britain and the United States, -
Final Solution
The final solution was about that the Nazi planned to killed Jewish people. Killing Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. -
Second Attack
Japanese Admiral Nagumoet, attacked Pearl Harbor, launches a raid on Midway Island with almost the entirety of the Japanese navy. -
USA won battle
After figthint for almost one year American wons the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midwa. Japneses were still angry and didnt want to finish this wat. -
War was over
Americans received word that three years of concerted war efforts had finally over. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge started. Hitler convinced himself that the alliance between Britain, France and America in the western sector of Europe was not strong and that a major attack and defeat would break up the alliance. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, , for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of Okinawa
after suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops of the 10th Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner Jr. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
Hiroshima atomic bomb
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II -
Bombing of Nagasaki
1945, an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. That bomb was the second and last atomic weapon that had as its target a civilian city. -
Surrender of Japan
The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands -
Citations
"World War 2." WWII. Editors, 17 Sept. 1947. Web. 25 Aug. 2011. http://sp.uconn.edu/~wwwcoh/TIMELINE.HTM
