World War II Timeline

By morgann_

  • Nuremberg Laws are enacted

    Laws that limited Jews’ natural rights; Germany

  • World War I ended

  • World War I ends

    Europe

  • Facism is created

    Developed by Benito Mussolini; Italy

  • Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister of Italy

  • Benito Mussolini became the fascist dictator of Italy

  • The Great Depression started

    United States

  • Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union

    Soviet Union

  • The stock market crashes on Black Tuesday

    Wall Street, New York
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    Japan begins to expand

  • The Great Depression ended

    United States

  • Hitler is appointed as the chancellor/dictator of Germany

    Germany

  • Germany expands to Rhineland

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    The Great Purge

    Approx. 950,000 to 1.2 million deaths
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    Nanjing Massacre

    China

  • Munich Agreement was signed

    The British, French, Italian, & German leaders signed an agreement to avoid the outbreak of war; signed in Germany.

  • Germany expands to Austria

  • Non-Aggression Pact with USSR is signed

    Moscow, Russia
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    Germany invades Poland

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

    This is the start of World War II

  • Kristallnacht

    When the Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property in Germany and German-controlled land.
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    Germany invades France

    European Theatre
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    Battle of Britain

    European Theatre

  • The Holocaust started

    Nazi Germany

  • Germany invades Russia

    This breaks the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact; European Theatre

  • The attack on Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; 2,400 Americans died, 200 aircraft destroyed, all 8 battleships sunk or damaged

  • FDR and Congress declare war on Japan

  • Allies invade North Africa

    European Theatre; Hit the Axis powers where they are weakest
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    Battle of the Coral Sea

    Pacific Theatre
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    Battle of Midway

    Pacific Theatre
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    European Theatre; Russian defeats Germany

  • Germany and Italy declare war on USA

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    Allies invade Italy

    European Theatre

  • D-Day Invasion

    European Theatre; Normandy, France
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    Battle of the Philippine Sea

    Pacific Theatre
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    Battle of the Bulge

    European Theatre; occurs along the border of France and Germany

  • The Holocaust ended

    Nazi Germany
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    Battle of Iwo Jima

    Pacific Theatre; 25,000 American Casualties
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    Battle of Okinawa

    Pacific Theatre; 12,000 American casualties,100,000 Japanese casualties

  • VE Day

    European Theatre

  • Germany surrenders

  • Potsdam Declaration

    Cecilienhof, Potsdam, Germany

  • Hiroshima

    Japan; 70,000 people killed

  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki, Japan; 65,000

  • VJ Day/Japan surrenders