World War II

By Tomas Martin

  • Japan Invades Manchuria (military)

    This was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War II.

  • German Election (Political)

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. He was elected. He represented a workers party.

  • Second new deal(economic)

    This was President Roosevelt's way of getting the United States out of the Great Depression. He improved use of national resources, security against old age, unemployment and illness, and slum clearance.

  • Army onto Rhineland(milItary)

    Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany. In violation of the Versailles Treaty.

  • Munich Agreements (Cultural)

    The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany.

  • Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) (social)

    A jewish man was very mad after hearing his father was deported to Poland. Out to avenge his father, he shot a german diplomat living in Paris. When Nazi leaders heard the news, they launched a violent attack on the Jewish community. Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and murdered close to 100 jews.

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact is Signed(social)

    Since fighting a two front war in World War I had split Germany's forces, it had weakened and undermined their offensive; thus, played a large role in Germany losing the First World War. Hitler was determined not to repeat the same mistakes. So, he planned ahead and made a pact with the Soviets - the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.

  • Britain and France Declare War on Germany(political)

    On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany because they had a treaty with Poland in which they had undertaken to help Poland if its independence was threatened by force.

  • British Bombed (military)

    Germany's airforce began bombing Great Britain. At first, the Germans targeted British airfield and aircraft factories. Then they began focusing on the cities, especially London, to break British moral.

  • Pearl Harbor (military)

    Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces. US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US

  • Battle of Britian (military)

    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command.

  • Hitler Invades the Soviet Union (military)

    German tanks and aircraft announced the beginning of the invasion. The Soviet Union was not prepared for this attack. Although it had the largest army in the world, its troops were neither well equipped nor well trained.

  • Operation Barbarossa (military)

    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War 2 that began on 22 June 1941. Over 3.9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare

  • Japanese Americans Internment (social)

    The bombing of Pearl Harbor frightened Americans. This fear encouraged by government propaganda, was turned against Japanese Americans. They were suddenly the enemy. President Roosevelt issued an executive order calling for the internment of Japanese Americans because they were considered a threat to the country.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea (military)

    The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. It was also the first naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.

  • Rosie the Riveter(social)

    This was used by the United States. It was used as propaganda to get people, mainly focused on women, to help with the war efforts at home, For example working in factories and other jobs that needed to be filled in.

  • Battle of Stalingrad (military)

    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia.

  • D-Day (military)

    his invasion of Normandy was the largest land and sea attack in history. British, American, French, and Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60-mile stretch of beach in Normandy. The Germans had dug in with machine guns, rocket launchers and cannons. They sheltered behind concrete wall three feet thick. The allies took heavy casualties. The American forces alone, more than 2,700 men died on the beaches that day. Despite heavy losses, the Allies kept going strong.

  • Nuremberg Trials (diplomatic)

    This was the persecutions of the war criminals. It was held by the Allied forces after the war.

  • The Battle of the Bulge (military)

    German tanks broke through weak American defences along a 75-mile front in the Ardennes. Although caught off guard, the Allies eventually pushed the Germans back. The Germans had little choice but to retreat, since there were no reinforcements available.

  • President Roosevelt Dies (social)

    President Roosevelt did not live to witness the long-awaited victory of the war. He died as the Allies army was advancing toward Berlin.

  • Germany Surrenders (diplomatic)

    The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945. Generally ended the war.

  • V-E Day (diplomatic)

    The Nazis had surrender and it was officially signed in Berlin. The United States and other Allied powers celebrated V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day). After nearly six years of fighting, the war in Europe had ended.

  • Atomic Bomb (military)

    The atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, a city on the Japanese island of Honshu. The bomb destroyed the whole city. When the bomb hit the ground, the temperature got up to 7,000 degreese fahrenheit, There was winds of 980 miles per hour. There was 62,000 buildings destroyed. 70,000 people were killed immediately, and by the end of 1945, 140,000 people had died.