Ww2 158

World War 2 Timeline

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    World War 2 Timespan

  • China Falls to Japan

    China Falls to Japan
    As China uses up their resources to fight the war with Japan. But eventually Japan wins the battle and takes over Japan.
  • Blitzkreig into Poland

    Blitzkreig into Poland
    About 1 million germans in Europe conquered poland expanding their land that the germany already occoupied.
  • German invasion of France

    German invasion of France
    In Europe Germany takes over France So Germany can expand their growth for Land.
  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk
    Germany still continues to conquer More land in Europe. But for The Axis power they want key Ports in Dunkirk.
  • Battle of Britain/Operation Sealion

    Battle of Britain/Operation Sealion
    Germany was able to conquer almost all of the land in Europe and and now Germany was going to take Great Britain as well but were unsucessful.
  • Germany takes Greece

    Germany takes Greece
    Germany takes France and then Advances towards other Neighboring countries such as Greece.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Germany takes almost all of Europe's countries except for Russia. So Germany goes after Russia and Germany wants to fulfill getting Russia's Natural resources.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    In the morning so many Japanese Planes attack US Naval Ship fleets. That day the Japanese took revenge on The US for restricting giving supplies to them.
  • Philippines 1942

    Philippines 1942
    The Japanese Attacked the Phillippines as well to attack the US. Just a few moments after Pearl Harbor.
  • Bataan

    Bataan
    It was a march where all of the prisoners on the Phillippines were rounded up and had to march to a Japanese Prison that was 67 miles away.
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid
    The Pacific side was going to launch a bomber attack on Japan's airfields and they did.
  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping
    This was a strategy that the US used to acquire small islands and then launch an attack on Japan.
  • Coral Sea

    Coral Sea
    This Pacific Battle wasn't a success for the US because of the Japan's stratgeic plan they gained New Guinea and isolated us from helping Australlia.
  • Midway

    Midway
    The Battle of Midway in the Pacific was one of the biggest Naval battles in History. The US was able to ambush the japanese.
  • El Alamein

    El Alamein
    During WW2 we decided to fight in North Africa so we can advance into Europe to help the allies.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    In Europe for Russia this was one of the most brutal War they have ever experienced. But for Germany they weren't capable of the unconditional weather in Russia.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    The US took back what was Guadalcanal that the Japanese had before so the US had to fight through the Jungle.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    The Allied plan for this operation was to go from North Africa into Europe to help Russia and fight along side with the Allies.
  • New Guinea

    New Guinea
    the US faced so many Health Conerns on this large island such as Malaria,and Diseases in the Jungle.
  • Kursk

    Kursk
    The battle of Kursk in Europe was one of the Biggest Tank battles during WW2.
  • Sicily

    Sicily
    The invasion of Sicily for the Allies would be the next goal after helping Russia but unfortunaly the allies were stuck in Sicily trying to secure Italy and it took 5 months.
  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic
    through 1939-1943 The US struggled with controling trade in the waters. The US lost a lot of their Boats from trying to save cargo ships.
  • Salerno

    Salerno
    This was another port where the US landed their Army to help towards capturing Italy.
  • Anzio

    Anzio
    it was another Landing Location for the US to advance into Italy.
  • Gilbert and Marshall Islands

    Gilbert and Marshall Islands
    The US seized the two islands that the Japanese had before for keeping supplies and ships.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Roosevelt decided to take the decision to send troops across the English Channel into France. We landed on the beaches. We were hit with so many casatulites during that event but we were able to acquire northern France.
  • Guam

    Guam
    The Japanese decided to attack the island of Guam which the US Seized.
  • Operation Dragoon

    Operation Dragoon
    Now the US was going to launch an attack on the southern side of France. At the end the Allied Plans were successful and captured Southern Part of France.
  • Phillippines 1944-45

    Phillippines 1944-45
    The US decides to attack Japan on the Philippines so they can seize their land.
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf
    The US lanched another attack on Japan to attack their carieers which destroyed half of their naval ships in the pacific.
  • Bastogne

    Bastogne
    The Germans were going to Launch an attack against the Allies in the Town of Bastogne in Belgium so the Allied Force held Defensive grounds in that area.
  • Battle of Bulge

    Battle of Bulge
    This Battle was where Germany wanted take their last chances with the Allies and trying to break them apart with a huge scale attack and in the time of wInter.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The metting during the near of World War 2 with Stalin,Churchhill, and FDR on decding how to split up Germany and different proposals.
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    Iwo Jima was a small pacific island that the US wanted to acquire but the battle for the island was really brutal against Japan and the US.
  • Okinawa

    Okinawa
    This was also another island that the US wanted to acquire as well and the US also took huge casulaties.
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide
    As Allied Forces gain into Germany Hitler commits suicide in his bunker.
  • German Surrender

    German Surrender
    When Hitler dies the government collapses for Germany and the Allies take control of Germany.
  • Potsdam

    Potsdam
    This Metting was with Stalin,Churchhill, and Truman about what plans to make on attacking Japan.
  • Hiroshima and Magasaki

    Hiroshima and Magasaki
    The atomic bomb was dropped in these populated places in Japan to end the war.
  • Japanese Surrender

    Japanese Surrender
    Japanese surrenders to the US after a huge number of their army and navy were destroyed.Their Economy was also devasted.