WW2

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  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    18 Sept 1931 – 27 Feb 1932

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Stock market crash (start of The Great Depression)

    The economy began to slow down and at the end of October, the stock market and people began to sell massive amounts of stock.
    After the crash came deep economic depression.

  • The Manhattan Project

    1939-1946
    The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II.
    The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s—and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it.

  • Hitler came into power

    After the war, Hitler entered politics. Many Germans were upset that they had lost the war. They were also not happy with the Treaty of Versailles, which not only blamed the war on Germany, but took land from Germany. At the same time, Germany was in an economic depression. Many people were poor. Between the depression and the Treaty of Versailles, the time was ripe for Hitler to rise to power.

  • WW2 Started (Germany invading Poland

    1 September 1939 – 6 October 1939

  • Britian declares war

    3 September 1939

  • Australia declares war

    3 September 1939

  • The Battle of France

    20th May 1940 – 25th June 1940

  • Dunkirk

    26 May 1940 – 4 June 1940

  • The Blitz

    7 September 1940 – 11 May 1941

  • Operation Barbarossa

    22 of June 1941 - 5 December 1941

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    7 December 1941

  • Kokoda Campaign

    July - November 1942

  • Fall of Singapore

    8 February 1942 - 15 February 1942

  • Bombing of Darwin

    19 February 1942

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    4 May 1942 - 8 May 1942

  • Japanese submarines in Sydney Harbir

    31 May 1942 - 1 June 1942

  • Battle of Midway

    4 June 1942 - 7 June 1942

  • Seige of Leningrad

    23 Aug 1942 – 2 Feb 1943

  • The Japan Campaign

    In late 1944, The Campaign began with dropping minor air raids, that developed into major firebombing.
    Despite the damage and civilian deaths, the Japanese military refused to surrender.
    America continued push towards the Japanese Home Islands. These two battles revealed how fierce Japan’s defence of the Home Islands would be:
    Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945)
    The Battle of Okinawa (26 March – 2 July 1945)

  • The Potsdam Declaration

    At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the allies issued the Potsdam Declaration to Japan.
    This was an ultimatum - if Japan did not unconditionally surrender, it would face 'prompt and utter destruction'.

  • The bombing of Hiroshima

    6 August 1945

  • The bombing of Nagasaki

    9 August 1945

  • Japan surrenders

    Japanese government surrenders
    They notified the Allies that they would accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration
    The Emperor retained full sovereignty of Japan (the right to rule independently and free of foreign influence).

  • The Potsdam Declaration signed

    The formal declaration was signed on 2 September 1945, and the Allies occupied Japan from the date until 1952.