World War II

By s-amarley

  • Great Depression

    A serious and world-wide economic decline of the 1930s

  • Japan conquers Manchuria in northern

  • Roosevelt first elected president

    He was elected because Hoover lost Americas trust

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Law that was a law saying Jewish people could not marry; have kids or sexual relations with Germans.

  • Hitler & Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Japan joins the Axis Powers

  • Japan invades China

  • Germany invades Austria

    There were crowds of Austrian people cheering as Hitler got to Austria.
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    Germany invades Austria

    There were crowds of Austrian people cheering as Hitler got to Austria.

  • Britain’s appeasement of Germany

    Great Britain, and France let Germany take Sudetenland so that Germany did not start a war.

  • Kristallnacht

    It is a wave of violent anti-Jewish, throughout Germany, Austria and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

  • Germany & Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact

  • Germany invades Poland - blitzkrieg

    Germany invades Poland breaking the Munich Agreement.
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    Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France (Vichy France)

  • German air force (Luftwaffe) bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain

  • Lend-Lease Act

    The U.S. lends weapons to other Countries in WWII

  • The Nazis implement the “Final Solution”

    Massive kill operations begin for killing Jews, Roma, and other minority groups.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.

  • Bataan Death March

    The Japanese marched 76,00 Ally prisoners along a sixty mile journey.

  • Japanese-American incarceration

    Harbor Americans put Japanese-Americans in to internment camps in the middle of the U.S. thinking that they were all Japanese spies.

  • Manhattan Project

    It was a factory was a secret military project, that was disguised as a little community. They were making the Atomic Bombs but did not know it.

  • Battle of Midway

    It was a battle between the U.S. and Japan on the island of Midway and the S.S. won. Marked the turning point of the war in the pacific.
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    Guadalcanal

    The U.S. and its allies were fighting Japan for the Guadalcanal. The Allies win.

  • German forces surrender at Stalingrad

    Hitler reluctantly surrenders. This battle was the turning point in the war in Europe.

  • British forces stop the German advance at El Alamein

  • Rosie the Riveter

    Women took the mens jobs that went to the war, They would wear denim jump suits, boots, Gloves and handled heavy machinery.

  • D-Day

    D-day means Death Day. Allied forces invade Normandy, France. The Allies won,

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Hitler tried to split the Allies in two and he wanted to cut off their supplies.

  • Tuskegee Airmen

    They were the first African American Military Pilots.

  • Yalta Conference

    Took place in Russia with Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin to plan the final defeat of Germany life after the war.
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    Okinawa

    The last and the biggest of the pacific battles.

  • Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes president

  • Formation of the United Nations

    50 nations met un san francisco to discuss a new peacekeeping organization to replace the weak and ineffective League of Nations. June 26, 1945- all 50 nations ratified the charter, creating a new international peacekeeping body known as the United Nations. President Roosevelt had urged Americans not to turn their backs on the world again. Unlike the league of Nations, the United States is a member of hte United Nations.

  • Allied forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders unconditional to the Allies.

  • Iwo Jima

    The island of Iwo Jima was won by the U.S.
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    Potsdam Conference

    Allies help the Potsdam Conference to plan the war's end. Decision was made to put Nazi war criminals on trials.

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    the U.S. dropped a bomb on Hiroshima then three days later the U.S. dropped a bomb on Nagasaki.

  • Japanese officials sign an official letter of surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri, ending World War II

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    Nuremberg trials

    24 defendants, including some of Hitler's top officials. Hermann Goering creator & head of Gestapo (secret police). Charged with crimes against humanity. 19 found guilty, 12 sentanced to death. People are responsible for there actions, even in wartime.

  • Marshall Plan

    Congress approved Secretary of State George Marshall's plan to help boost European economies. The U.S. gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe to get back on their feet.