World War II

By jmcfadzen
  • Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is appointed German leader as Chancellor but would later assume dictatorial powers.
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    World War II

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Japan invades China

  • Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany

  • Germany invades Poland- WORLD WAR II BEGINS

    Germany invades Poland- WORLD WAR II BEGINS

    This is officially the start of WWII

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway

  • Germany uses blitzkrieg to take take over much of Western Europe

    Germany uses blitzkrieg to take take over much of Western Europe

  • Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government

    Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government

  • Italy enters the way as a member of the Axis powers

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Germany launches air attacked in Great Britain- these last till the end of October

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact

    Created the Axis Alliance

  • Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia

  • Pearl Harbor attack

    Pearl Harbor attack

    Japanese attack on US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters WWII on the side of the Allies
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    US Navy defeats the Japanese navy

  • Allies invade and take over island of Sicily

  • Italy surrenders to the Allies

    Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up government in Northern Italy
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans

  • Paris is liberated

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    German launch a large attack- losing to the Allies sealing their fate of the German army

  • US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima

  • US Third Army crosses the Rhine River

  • President FDR dies- President Truman succeeded him

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Because he knows Germany lost the war

  • Germany officially surrenders to the Allies

  • The US drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

    The US drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

    City = devastated
  • The US drops an Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

    The US drops an Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

    Bomb #2
  • Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies

    Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies

    The war is over