World War 2 Timeline

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  • WW2 Breakout in Europe

    WW2 Breakout in Europe
    How ww2 startedWW2 started when Germany decided to attack Poland.After Hitler took over Austria and Checoslovakia, Hitler believed that he was able to continue moving east and capture Poland without fighting the British or French.

  • Brunswick Shipyard

    Brunswick Shipyard
    MoreThroughtout the war, this port was mainly used for trading purposes.There were over 16,000 workers and they built 99 ships

  • Savannah Shipyard

    Savannah Shipyard
    Shipyard VideoShipyard Video Savannah was one of the chosen places to build the Liberty Ships. They originally were going to build 36 ships, however they ended up building 88 ships. Many women and African Americans worked there

  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
    More InfoThis act was created to let the US military help other countries during the war. Countries like the Soviet Union, China, and Britain recieved supplies

  • Bell Aircraft

    Bell Aircraft
    More InfoThey created the B-29 Bomber after the Pearl Harbor attacks. The production facilit was opened in Marietta. The facility was 3.2 million square feet.

  • Richard Russell

    Richard Russell
    more infoRussell was apert of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, the Central Intelligence Agency’s congressional oversight committee, and the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, and on the Democratic Policy and Democratic Steering committees during world war 2.

  • Germany Invasion

    Germany Invasion
    more info
    150,000 soviet soldiers were killed or wounded
    600,000 soviets were captured
    3 million soldiers were put in prison

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    videoPearl Harbor was when the Japanese flew their planes into the harbor. This tactic was known as kamikaze. 2000 US soldiers died and 1000 were wounded. This is the point that the US officially joined the war.

  • Carl Vinson

    Carl Vinson
    MORE INFOHe was for a strong US navy. He was the chairman of the House Naval Affair Committee and House Armed Services

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    more infoOver 160,000 soldiers fought on a french beach with the nazis. More than 9,000 died. 13000 aircrafts and 5 ships.

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    more infoIt was a meetng between Winston Churchhill, Joseph Stalin,and Roosevelt. They wanted germany to surrender and start making post war plans.This led to the cold war.

  • Hitler death

    Hitler death
    more infoHe took a cyanide capsule, then he shot himself. he shot himself in a bunker. Officially declared dead in 1956

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    [VIDEO](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaustSimilar)It was the mass murder of jewish people. Hitler believed that they casues all the issues, so he wanted to kill them all. They were taken to concentration camps. Few survivors. Ended in 1945

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    video a u.s. b29 bomber dropped the worlds first atomic bomb. killed over 80,000 people.Japanese then surrendered.

  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki
    more info74,000 peopled died in the blast.Destroyed 2.6 square miles. The bomb was nicknamed the fat man.

  • U.N Formation

    U.N Formation
    more info It was a coalition of 26 countries. Its goal was the create a new unified europe.