World War II (Pacific theater red, European theater blue)

By audreyk
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    End of World War 1

    Germany surrendered on November 11, 1918 and all nations stopped fighting until the war officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.

  • Rise of dictatorship in Italy

    Benito Mussolini, Italy

  • Rise of dictatorship in Japan

    Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo, Japan

  • Rise of dictatorship in China

    Communism, China
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    Great Depression

    America, everywhere

  • Japan begins to expand

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    Holocaust

    (blue)

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Germany

  • Germany begins to expand

    Austria and Rhineland

  • Munich Agreement

    Germany

  • Non aggression pact between USSR and Germany

    took place in the Soviet Union

  • Poland is invaded by Germany

    Poland (blue)

  • Allies declare war

  • Kristallnacht

    Germany
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    France is invaded

    battle of France, (blue)
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    Battle of Britain

    (blue)
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    Russia is invaded

    (blue), operation Barbarossa
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    Seige of Leningrad

    (blue)

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbour

    (red)

  • US enters war

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    Battle of Coral Sea

    (red)
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    Battle of Midway

    (red)
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    (blue)
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    D-Day

    (blue) Battle of Normandy
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    Battle of the Phillipines

    (red)
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    Battle of the Bulge

    (blue)
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    Battle of Okinawa

    (red)
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    Battle of Iwo Jima

    (red)

  • Germany surrenders

  • Potsdam Declaration

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    (red)

  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    (red)

  • Japan surrenders

  • End of WW2

    formal end