Timeline: WORLD WAR II TIMELINE

Sep 19, 1931

Japan invades Manchuria

Aug 31, 1935

Neutrality Acts of the US

Oct 1, 1935

Italy takes over Ethiopia

Mar 1, 1936

Hitler enters France

Mar 15, 1938

Anschluss of Austria

Union of austria and Germany violtaed versallies treaty, created a brief war scare

Sep 29, 1938

Munich Conference

British and French leaders chose appeasment, they caved into Hitlers demands persuaded Czechs to surrender that Sudeten land without a fight

Mar 16, 1939

Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia

Aug 23, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Hitler feared communisim as Stalin feard facism. they agreed not to fight and divide Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Invasion of Poland

Sep 3, 1939

Gensis of WWII

Apr 19, 1940

Hitler launches blizkrieg on Norway and Belgium

A series of bombing against Norway and Denmark.

May 10, 1940

Hitler slams Netherland Belgium

May 10, 1940

Germany enters France

Jun 22, 1940

France falls

Sep 10, 1940

Axis powers take over North Africa And the Balkans

Sep 17, 1940

Opertaion Sea Lion and Blitz On London

Plans for an invasion of Britain with launches of massive airstrikes against the island nation

May 16, 1941

Operation Sea Lion Fails

Jun 22, 1941

Hitler enacts Operation Barbarossa

Plan took name from medieval Germanic leader Frederick Barborossa, declared ural mountains, siberia, ukraine under german control.

Sep 8, 1941

Germany's Siege of Leningrad-Russia

Dec 7, 1941

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

Japanese airplanes bombed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, took 2,400 lives and destroyed battleships and aircraft.

Dec 8, 1941

US declares war on Japan

Dec 11, 1941

Germany and Italy declare war on the US

May 4, 1942

Japan loses the Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle lasted for five days in May, and for the first time ever battleships have never saw eachother.

Jun 4, 1942

Japan loses the Battle of Midway

Nov 1, 1942

The Big Three Meet

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin agreed to end war in europe and finish in Asia.

Nov 8, 1942

Allies Seize North Africa

Nov 19, 1942

Hitler Launches New Offensive on Stalingrad

Feb 2, 1943

Germans Surrender at Stalingrad

Sep 3, 1943

Italians Surrender to Allies

Feb 4, 1944

Yalta Conference

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany surrendering.

Jun 6, 1944

D-Day Assualt

Allied planes dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines and ships ferried in 156,000 allied troops.

Sep 13, 1944

Kamikaze Missions

Dec 16, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Feb 19, 1945

Battle of Iwo Jima

Apr 1, 1945

British and American Forces Cross Rhine/Battle of Okinawa

Apr 12, 1945

FDR Dies, Truman Becomes President

Apr 25, 1945

Charter of the United Nations

Delegates from 50 nations conveyed in San Franciso to draft a charter.

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits Suicide

May 7, 1945

Germany Surrenders

May 8, 1945

V-E Day

War in Europe ends( Victory in Europe)

Jul 16, 1945

First Test of the Manhattan Project/Truman Warns Japan to Surrender

Successful test of ther first atomic bomb at Alamogordoa, New Mexico. Pres. Truman orderd Japan to surrender or face complete destruction and utter devastation.

Aug 6, 1945

US drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Enola Gay- American plane dropped atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima instantly killing more than 70,000. the next day the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki killing more than 40,000.