World War 2 timeline

  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Started when Manchina was invaded by the kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan unmediately following the Mukden incident. The Japanese established a pupet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of WW2
  • Hitler made Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler became chancellor on January 30, 1933. Historians agree this marks the beginning of Nazi Germany. It also marked a crucial turning point for Germany and for the world.
  • The Anschluss

    Also known as the Anschluss Osterreichs, was the occupation and annexation of Austia into Nazi Germany. The Anschluss was among the first major steps of Adolf Hitler's creation of a Greater German Reich which was to include all ethnic German and all the lands and territories which the German Empire had lost after World War I.
  • Kristallnacht

    Also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht, pogromnacht, and November pogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria. It was carried out by SA puramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians.
  • Invasion of Poland

    This was also known as the Defensive War or the Fourth Partition of Poland. The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic.
  • Dunkirk

    This was an important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. A crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; " the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    A suprise strike conducted by the imperial Japanese Navy against the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the morning at like 8. The attack led to the United states entry into World war 2.
  • Batoan Death March

    was the forcile transfer by the imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 Filliino and American prisoners of war after the three month battle of Britain in the Phillippeans during the World War 2
  • Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. Naval battle of World War 2. American planes based on land and on carriers derisevely defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the midway islands.
  • D-Day

    The day in world War 2 on which Allied forces invaded Northern France by means of landings in Normandy.
  • Battle of the Buldge

    Von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies suprised.
  • Yalta Conference

    A conference held in Yelta, where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Charchill planned the final stages of World War 2 amd agreed to the terrorial division of Europe.
  • VE Day

    This day marcked the victory for Allies in World War II.
    VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day. VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe.
  • The bombing of Hiroshima

    The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conduct by the United States during the final stages of world War 2. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.
  • VJ Day

    Japan caused fighting in World War 2, or the day September 2 when JApan formally surrendered.