World War II

By Jayden____

  • Treaty of Versallies

    (Pronounced Versi) End of WWI, punished Germany

  • Hitler's book published

    "Mein Kampf"

  • Stock Market Crash of 1929

    (U.S.) The start of the Great Depression

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States

  • Hitler is Chancellor of Germany

  • First death camp opened

  • Enabling Act

    This gives Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazis boycott Jewish businesses

  • Books are burned by Nazis

  • Nazi Party is Germany's only party

  • Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles

    He builds up his military

  • Evacuation of Children

    Great Britain

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany

  • Czechoslovakia is taken by Nazis

  • Hitler sets the date to invade Poland

  • All German Jews must turn in radios

  • Poland is invaded by Nazis

  • War is declared on Germany

    Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand

  • U.S. declares neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Soviet Union (Russia) attacks Finland

  • Rationing begins in Britain

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets

  • Germans bomb Scapa Flow

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

  • Nazis invade

    France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  • Winston Churchill

    Becomes Prime Minister of Britain
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    First British air raid on Berlin

  • German Blitz against Britain begins

    German Blitz against Britain begins

    Blitz is a shortened form of the German word 'Blitzkrieg' (lightning war) The Germans bombed London night after night for months. One-third of London was destroyed.

  • Italians invade Egypt

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

  • German troops enter Romania

  • Italy invades Greece

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president

  • Hungary joins the Axis Powers

  • Romania joins Axis Powers

  • British forces arrive in Greece

  • Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government

  • Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq

  • Nazis invade Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis

  • Greece surrenders to the Nazis

  • Pro-Allied government in Iraq.

  • Allies invade Syria and Lebanon

  • United States freezes German and Italian assets

  • Germans capture Minsk

  • Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets

  • British occupy Syria

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations

  • Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

  • Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev

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    Germany invades...

    Odessa, Sevastopol, Kharkov, and Rostov

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Naval base in Hawaii

  • United States declares war on Japan

  • Italy and Germany declare war on U.S.

  • Hitler takes complete control of the German Army

  • Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz

  • Roosevelt announces the war can end

    only with "unconditional German surrender."

  • First American forces arrive in Great Britain

  • Anne Frank's family was forced to go into hiding

    Anne Frank's family was forced to go into hiding

  • Americans capture Palermo, Sicily

  • Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow

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    Germans evacuate Sicily

  • First all-American air attack in Europe

  • Italian surrender to Allies is announced

  • Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos

  • U.S. declares crimes will be avenged

    The mass murders of Jews by Nazis

  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

    Wilhelmshaven

  • Soviet troops take Kursk

  • Allies take Tunisia

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

  • Allies bomb Rome

  • Germans occupy Rome, Italy

  • Large British air raid on Berlin

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran

  • British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France

  • Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails

  • First concentration liberated

    Majdanek prisoners were freed by Soviet forces

  • Anne Frank arrested

    Nazis raid the Secret Annex and arrest the whole Frank family

  • Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket

  • Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland

  • Auschwitz liberated by Soviets

  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

    Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, using a piece of Japanese pipe as a mast. Three of the flag raisers were later killed as the fighting raged on. The flag raising photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine.
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies

    President Harry Truman takes over.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • German troops in Italy surrender

  • Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies

  • VE Day

    Victory in Europe Day

  • American, British, and French troops move into Berlin

  • First U.S. atomic bomb test

  • First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

  • Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Japanese agree to unconditional surrender

  • Japanese sign surrender agreement

    VJ Day - Victory over Japan Day

  • Anne Frank's diary is published

    Anne didn't survive that Holocaust, but her father did. He published her book, fulfilling her dream of being an author
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    Cold War