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World War 2 Timeline

  • Hitler

    Hitler
    Hitler was appointed Chancelor.
  • Disobeying the Treaty

    Hitler started to disobey the Treaty of Versailles by creating a new airforce and expanding Germany's military with a military draft.
  • Remiliterization

    Germany remilitarizes Rhineland which went against the Treaty of Versailles.
  • New Alliance

    Hitler and Mussolini made an alliance calling it the Rome-Berlin Axis.
  • Japan and China

    Japan and china clashed south of Beijing because China was allowing Japan to govern some of the northern regions of their country. Then Japan started moving south and protests broke out.
  • Austria

    Hitler annexes Austria after he threatened them with invasion. Hitler forced Austria to put Austrian Nazis in charge which allowed German troops to enter Austria.
  • Munich Confrence

    Hitler demanded Sudetenland which was apart of northern Czechoslovakia. If his request wasn't accepted then he threatend world war to acheive his objective. He also promised that this was his last request. Everyone agreed with it.
  • Czechoslovakia

    The remainder of Czechoslovakia was given to Hitler.
  • Non-Aggresion Pact

    The Soviet Union and Gremany sing the non-agression pact which said that they would not fight each other or support any country who was against the other country. Also all conflicts between the two countries would be settled with negotiation.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Hitler invades Poland out of nowhere and takes them over in a month. They split Poland with Russia.
  • France and the United Kingdom

    France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany for ignoring their ultmatum telling Germany to evacuate Germany.
  • Italy

    Italy declares war on France and the UK and invades France from the south.
  • Tripartite Pact

    Germany, Italy, and Japan make an alliance in Japan.
  • US Helps Out

    The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act allowing the Allies to buy military equipment and pay for it after the war.
  • Japan and the Soviet Union

    The Soviet Union and Japan sign the Neutrality Pact.
  • Germany Betrays the Soviet Union

    Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
  • US and Japan

    The United States declares war on Japan.
  • US and Germany

    Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.
  • Japan's Navy Defeated

    The Japanese Imperial Navy is defeated by the US Navy in the Battle of Midway.
  • Mussolini Arrested

    The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is arrested. He was later rescued by the German paratroopers.
  • Italy Surrenders

  • US Death

    The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by Harry S. Truman.
  • German Death

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
  • Berlin is Captured

    Berlin is captured by the Soviet forces.
  • Germany Down

    Germany surrenders. The war in Europe is over.
  • A-Bomb

    The United States drop the first atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima.
    The United States drop the second atomic bomb (Fat Man) on Nagasaki.
  • End of WW2

    Japan agrees to surrender unconditionally by which the World War II is finally over.