World War 2 timeline

By cairoy
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    Battle of the Atlanic

    -Germans were sinking US ships woth allies supplies
    -Allies used radar to detect German U-boats

  • Pearl Harbor

    • Japan attacks USA -Took USA off guard -Japan wanted to expand Empire
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    Battle of the coral sea

    -Prior to this battle Japan was winning
    -Japan won but for the first time Allies were able to stop Japenese invasion
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    Battle of Midway

    • Chester Nimitz intercepted Japanese code
    • USA surprise attacked Japan at Pacific island called Midway
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    -Germans broke non agression pact with soviet union and attacked
    -Germans almost won but winter hit
    -Turning point in WW2

  • Normandy Invasion

    -Known more commonmly as D-Day
    -150 000 troops from Canada, Britian and the US
    -Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton were very important in leading this attack

  • France freed form Nazi control

    -Because of the normandy invasion france was freed from Nazi control
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    Battle of the Bulge

    -Germanys last attack
    -Nazies managed to break through the American lines
    -American Victory
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    Iwo Jima

    -Island in the pacific crutial for US win
    -27 000 Japanese held Iwo Jima

  • Yalta Confrence

    -Roosevelt, Churchill, stalin and Yaalta met to discusse post WW1
    - Decided to set up United Nations
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    Battle of Okinawa

    -USA won
    -Japan used 1 900 Kamikaze attacks

  • Death of FDR

    -FDR passes away at the beginning of huis fourth term
    -USA went through long period of grieving
    -Harry S. Turman takes role of president

  • End of Hitler

    -Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
    -Was cover of the time magazine May 7 1945

  • V-E Day

    -Victory in Europe day
    -1st part of would war was over

  • Posdam

    -Churchill, Turman, Stalin and then Clement Atlee met in Posdam Germany
    -Drew a Blueprint to disarm Germany and eliminate Nazi regimes

  • Manhattan Project (Hiroshima)

    -First atomic bomb USA dropped on Japan
    -In 43 seconds, the city was completley dust

  • Manhattan Project (Nagasakai)

    -Seconde atomic bomb USA dropped on Japan
    -Took out half of the city of Nagasaki

  • V-J Day

    -Japan unconditionally surrenders

  • V-J day

    -Japan officialy surrenders
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    Nuremberg Trials

    -Was an international tribual court that tried Nazi officials
    -12 out of 22 defandants were scentenced to death
    -200 other officials were chrarged but with lesser scentences