World War ll Timeline By: Aeriyanna Montague

By montaguean

  • Start of World War ll

  • Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway

  • Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government.

  • Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.

  • Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain.

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.

  • Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.

  • The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.

  • The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.

  • The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.

  • Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.

  • D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.

  • Paris is liberated from German control.

  • The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.

  • US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island.

  • The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River.

  • US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.

  • Germany surrenders to the Allies.

  • The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.

  • Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.

  • World War ll ended