World War II

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    WWII Timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles

    peace treaties at the end of wwi no more war between Germany and Allied States
  • Mussolini comes to power in Italy

    during World War I he was a leading proponent of Facism. paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922.
  • Stalin Lauches the first of his five year plans

    Stalins economical goals. He created collective farming system and had peasants working on them.
  • Hitler became Chancellor

    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • Dachau Opens

    first nazi consentration camp. death 10,000 to 30,000
  • Nuremberg Laws Pass

    anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany. It was a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.
  • Start Spanish Civil war

    The Nationalists won, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years.
  • Austrian Anschluss

    The annexation of Austria by nazi Germany
  • Germany annexed the Studetenland

    part of czechoslovakia and was under the Munich agreement
  • Kristallnacht

    a series of coordinated deadly attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria.
  • End Spanish Cilil War

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy.
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed

    Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war.
  • Germany invades Norway & Denmark

    deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
  • Auschwitz is opened

    nazi consentration camp the first to have polish prisoners.
  • Stalin becomes the Soviet Premier

    head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    largest invasion in the history of warfare. In addition to troops, the Germans employed some 600,000 motor vehicles and between 600–700,000 horses.
  • Pearl Harbor Attack by the Japanese

    was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii.
  • Start Battle of Stalingrad

    fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
  • British deafeat the Germans at El Alamein

    major offensive against the Axis. Western Allies got the victory.
  • End Battle of Stalingrad

  • D-Day

    Invation of Norway. The operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe.
  • Start Battle of the Bulge

    German offensive campaign in Belgium, France.
  • End Battle of the Bulge

  • Yalta Confrence

    meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
  • Germany surrenders

    General Dwight Eisenhower demanded complete surrender of all German forces.
  • Auschwitz is Liberated

    the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying.
  • Start Nuremburg Trails

    Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany
  • End Nuremburg Trails