World War II timeline

  • Shoah

    The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Various laws to exclude the Jews from civil society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, were enacted in Germany before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
  • blitzkrieg

    Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.
  • camps were created

  • theater of war

    The European Theatre of World War II, also known as the European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe from Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 until
  • Zionism

    In 1941, a Jewish writer, Theodor N. Kaufman, wrote Germany Must Perish. Kaufman set out a plan for the total destruction of the German population by a very simple method: the mass sterilisation of all German men and women between the age of puberty and sixty years."
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor,
  • Internment

    over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • battle of midway

    The battle, which took place June 4 to 7, 1942, changed the course of the war in the Pacific and highlighted naval aviation’s vast capabilities. Below are some significant events related to the Battle of Midway. THE FIRST TIME WHERE THE ALLIES WERE THE OFENSE AND A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE U.S.
  • operation torch African theater

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  • Operation Overlord

    6 June – 25 August 1944, was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces.
  • United Nations

    The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict
  • Fat man and little boy

    "Fat Man" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. 20 November 1945