Important Events of World War II

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  • Hitler Invades Poland

    The Nazi's take the jews and put them into ghetto's.

  • War on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • France Surrenders

    France surrenders to the Nazi's which have already invaded a lot of France

  • October 1940

    Germany drops bombs on top of London
    iIaly invades Greece
    Berlin was bombed heavily

  • the US gives aid to the allies

    The US lets the allies buy military equipment from them

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler invades Russia but is not prepared to figjht Ukraine and does not have winter clothes for the soldiers

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor but the Us is not expecting it

  • Final Solution Begins

    nazi’s plan to eliminate the Jews

  • April 1942

    Japanese forces begin all out assault on the US
    Hitler assumes supreme authority over Germany

  • Battle of Midway

    naval battle in the pacific theatre
    US won

  • Guadalcanal

    America's island hopping plan to get to mainland Japan

  • D-Day

    the day the allies arrived at Normandy, France to liberate western europe from Nazi Germany

  • Battle of the bulge

    Germans were trying to push american soldiers to belgian. They were tricking the American soldiers by dressing up as them and then keeping them hostage
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    in the conference, the UK, US and russia wanted to force Germany to surrender and move on to post war plans The Yalta Conference, 1945. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2015, from https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf

  • Battle of Okinawa

    last and biggest of the pacific island battles
    the allies won

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany surrenders to the allies

  • Atomic bomb #1

    America dropped atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb #2

    America dropped atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki

  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan surrenders to the allies