World War II Timeline

  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking

    Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an extra 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 ladies and ladies of all ages, many of whom had been mutilated or killed in the process. This tournament is very essential due to the fact it is the very first massive rape in records and it is additionally essential due to the fact Japan took China's most affluent cities and industrial facilities away.
  • Start of the war in European Theater

    Start of the war in European Theater

  • Start of the war in Atlantic Theater

    Start of the war in Atlantic Theater

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic

    The Battle of the Atlantic used to be a navel battle. It was once combat between the Allied and German forces for manage of the Atlantic Ocean. This combat was once essential due to the fact it blockade the Axis powers in Europe, safety of Allied sea movements, and freedom to undertaking army energy throughout the seas. The Axis, in turn, hoped to frustrate Allied use of the Atlantic to wage war.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain, additionally regarded as the Air Battle for England, used to be a army marketing campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom towards large-scale assaults by way of Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. This tournament is necessary due to the fact it enabled the Americans to set up a base of operations in England to invade Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
  • 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

  • Lend/Lease Act

    Lend/Lease Act

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    The siege of Bataan was once the first land combat for the Americans in WW2. The Bataan Death March was once the forcible switch with the aid of the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of battle from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan. The place the prisoners had been compelled to march till they died. The Significance of this was used to be that it helped prolong the Japanese develop via the Philippines.
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid

    The Doolittle Raid, additionally recognized as the Tokyo Raid, was once an air raid on 18 April 1942 with the aid of the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and different places on Honshu for the duration of World War II. This even used to be sizeable due to the fact it is the first assault the USA carried out to Japan after Pearl Harbor
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway was once a primary naval-air fighting in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took region on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. This hostilities is vital due to the fact it used to be the turning factor of the pacific hostilities that assist the US get beforehand of the Japanese with the aid of the usage of the Navajo code talkers.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    The combat of El Alamein used to be a land battle. It used to be the climax and turning factor of the North African marketing campaign of World War Two (1939-45). The Axis military of Italy and Germany suffered a decisive defeat by way of the British Eighth Army. This tournament is vital due to the fact it pushed the Axis powers out of North Africa
  • D-Day

    D-Day

  • Russian troops discover Auschwitz

    Russian troops discover Auschwitz

    Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camp. This is a very important date in history because it is the first time the Allies witness a genocide which is now called the Holocaust.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • Death of Roosevelt

    Death of Roosevelt

  • V-E day

    V-E day

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

  • V-J day

    V-J day

  • Creation of United Nations

    Creation of United Nations