Ww2

World War 2 Time line

  • World War 2 Begins

    World War 2 Begins

    Germany invaded Poland on this date in history. German aircraft bombed Polish citys and airfeilds and a bombardment of a Polish fort outside Danzing.
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    World war 2

  • Britain/ France declare war on Germany

    Britain/ France declare war on Germany

    Two days after the blitzlrieg was perfprmed on Poland Brittian and France uphold their promise to Poland and declared war on Germany.
  • Soviet Army Invades Poland

    Soviet Army Invades Poland

    When the Soviet Union decides to invade Poland, Germany had already started to invade, and when their armies met the Germans gave their Polish prisoners to the USSR for captivity. The Soviets ended up with 3/5ths of Poland and about 3 million of its people.
  • Operation Weserübung

    Operation Weserübung

    Germany invaded Denmark and Norway as a manouvre against a Franco-British occupation of Norway.
  • Alantic port of Brest.

    Alantic port of Brest.

    This was one of the fiercest battles fought on the Western Front. The Allies needed to capture port facilities to make she they had all the supplies they needed.
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    Battle of Brittian

  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact

    This was a pact written in Berlin. One of the main people that signed the pact was Adolf Hitler. the agreement was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • 'Lend-Lease' Act

    'Lend-Lease' Act

    This was where the United States provided the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and the UK with oil, food, and materials between 1941 and the end of World War 2.
  • Battle Of Greece

    Battle Of Greece

    The Germans had invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.
  • Barborossa

    Barborossa

    Hitler wants to take over the USSR. About 4 million soldiers of the Axis Powers invaded the Sovet Union.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise by the Japanese Navy. It was an attack on the U.S. in Hawaii.
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    Wasaw uprising

  • Hitler killed himself

    Hitler killed himself

    little after 3.30 pm, they bit into thin glass vials of cyanide. Hitler then shot himself through the head. The man responsible for untold suffering, who had almost single-handedly brought the world to the very brink of destruction, was dead.
  • U.S. Drops "Little Boy" On Hiroshima

    U.S. Drops "Little Boy" On Hiroshima

    On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • End of WW2

    End of WW2

    The U.S. ha dfinally dropped atomic bombs of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thus ending World War 2.
  • U.S. Drops  "Fat Man" On Nagasaki

    U.S. Drops "Fat Man" On Nagasaki

    It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare.
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders

    Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”