World War II

By Haley Fogarty

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

  • Japan Invades China

    Japan Invades China

    This initiated War in the Pacific
  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

    Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

    France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Honoring their guarantee of Polands boarders
  • The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east

    The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement

    Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement

    Forced the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
  • Italy enters the War

    Italy enters the War

    . Italy invades southern France on June 21
  • The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

    The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

    Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

    Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • Germany and her Axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union

    Germany and her Axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union

    German troops fight their way into Stalingrad (Volgograd) on the Volga River by mid-September and penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula.
  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

    First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

    at Wilhelmshaven
  • Troops surrender

    Troops surrender

    German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
  • Ghettos are no longer!

    Ghettos are no longer!

    Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends
  • Mussolini arrested

    Mussolini arrested

    The Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.
  • Germans rescue Mussolini

    Germans rescue Mussolini

    Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
  • First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain

    First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain

    First attack since there return in War.
  • Hitler Assasination attempt

    Hitler Assasination attempt

    Assasination attempt by German soldiers failed.

  • Anne Frank Arrested

    Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland

  • Operation Dragoon Begins

    (the Allied invasion of Southern France).

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

    Gas chambers were no longer used in the death camps for mass murder.

  • Mussolini is captured

    hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan

  • Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria

  • Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • United Nations is born