World War II

end of WW1

Jun 28, 1919

Versailles, France

rise of dictators

1925

Great depression

Period: 1929 to 1933

the whole world(united states)

japan starts to expanded

Period: 1931 to Dec 7, 1941

to find more resources

Nuremberg law

Sep 15, 1935

Germany(make jew have unfair laws)

Poland invasion

Period: Sep 1, 1936 to Oct 6, 1936

Poland

Munich agreement

Sep 29, 1938

Germany

kristallancht

Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938

Germany(night of the broken glass)

germany stsrt to expand

Period: 1939 to 1942

start to take more land(all through europe

Russian-Germany non aggression pact

Jul 23, 1939

Moscow(so they could not invade each other)

allies declare war

Sep 3, 1939

France,Great Britain, and more

Holocaust

Period: Oct 8, 1939 to Apr 29, 1945

all across Europe(6 million jews killed)

france invasion

Period: May 10, 1940 to Jun 25, 1940

all across France

battle of britian

Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Oct 31, 1940

bombing all across great Britain, Germany never ground assaulted great Britain

Operation Barbarossa

1941

Germany tries to invade Russia

Moscow

1941

Russia was invaded

Period: Jun 22, 1941 to Dec 5, 1941

Russia

attack on pearl harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Hawaii US territory (first big blow to the US)

US enters WWII

Dec 7, 1941

United states

battle of wake island

Dec 23, 1941

pacific ocean

Stalingrad

1942

lasted for 5 months

midway

1942

the turning point for the US hurt japan

operation torch

1942

first successful strategic offensive and American troops crossed the Atlantic for the first time

d-day

1942

battle of normandy

battle of the coral sea

May 4, 1942

near Austria but in the pacific ocean

battle of Iwo jima

Feb 19, 1945

Germany surrenders

May 7, 1945

to different day because it took time for the news to spread

battle of Okinawa

Jun 19, 1945

last island before japan

Potsdam declaration

Jul 26, 1945

decision on what to do about the NUKE(Potsdam, Germany)

Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

where the second bomb was dropped

japan surrenders

Sep 2, 1945

VJ day