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World War II Timeline

  • Start of the war in Atlantic/European Theater

    Start of the war in Atlantic/European Theater

  • Evacuation of Dunkirk

    Evacuation of Dunkirk

    It increased civillian moral and prevented the loss of Britains trained troops.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    This helped the American troops to make a base of operations and stay free from the Nazis. This a major air campaign.
  • Lend/Lease Act

    Lend/Lease Act

  • Start of the war in Pacific Theater

    Start of the war in Pacific Theater

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. joins the war

    U.S. joins the war

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    This was the tuning point of the war. This was a naval battle.
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid

    This caused the Japanesse to recoil thier defences and created fear in Japan.
  • D-day

    D-day

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    This was the last German offence and Germany experienced big losses. this was the last-ditch German military counter-offensive.
  • Russian troops discover Auschwitz

    Russian troops discover Auschwitz

    The troops went into poland freeing the people stuck in the concentration camps.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    This is still the bloodiest battle in marine corps history. This was a pacific campaign aginst Japan.
  • V-E day

    V-E day

  • Okinawa Fell

    Okinawa Fell

    It gave the allies a base to that where the bombers could strike.
  • Death of Roosevelt

    Death of Roosevelt

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

  • V-J day

    V-J day

  • Creation of United Nations

    Creation of United Nations