world war 2

By sas206

  • Germany invades poland

    in 1939 germany used blitzkrieg warefare

  • declaring war

    Britain and US declare war on Japan

  • pearl harbor

    japan attacks the naval base in Hawaii

  • battle of midway

    American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War

  • genocide of jewish people

    Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins
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    war in the pacific

    the US gets revenge on japan for pearl harbor and faces them in a bloody war

  • Mussolini surrenders italy

    Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle

  • tehran confrence

    Allies meet at Tehran to discuss war efforts

  • d-day

    D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August.

  • Roosevelts death

    Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill.

  • Death of Roosevelt

    roosevelt dies and truman takes his place as president

  • surrender of germany

    German forces surrender

  • atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima

    The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.

  • Russia declares war on Japan

    Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japan

  • bomb dropped on nagasaki

    after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima the Japanese still did not surrender so another one was dropped

  • Japanese surrender

    finally after the bombs where dropped the the emperor surrendered