World War II

By samantha.reddick

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan's occupation in Manchuria lasted until the end of WWII.

  • Japan invades China initiating WWII in the Pacific

    Put the pacific into WWII

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Triparite Pact

    It was a defensde militarty alliance.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    This bombing completely destroyed the American battleships.

  • U.S. declaes war on Japan entering WWII

    After Pearl Harbor the U.S. was entered into WWII.

  • MacAruthur ordered out of the Philippines

    The American defense of the island collapses once MacArthur is ordered out.

  • Firebombing raids of Tokyo and other Japanease cities begin

    Conducted by the U.S. air force upon Japan.

  • U.S. brought a new strategy of island hopping

    This was MacAurthur's plan

  • U.S. troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands

    This stopped the Japanese advancement.

  • Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands

    The bloodiest battle of the Pacific war.

  • Manhattan Project launches

    It was the beginning of the nuclear war.

  • Trinity Test

    This was the first denotation of the nuclear war for the United States.

  • USS Indianapolis sunk

    The world's first naval disaster in US history.

  • The US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    first deployed attomic bomb to ever be dropped.

  • The soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria

    1 million soviet soldiers occupied Manchuria.

  • Japan formally surrenders, ending WWII

    Bringing the hostilities of WWII to an end