WWll Major Events Timeline Project

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, while Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage a war which will become the Blitzkrieg strategy.Germany has destroyed air capacity,railroads,communication lines, and munitions dumps followed by a massive land invasion with numerous troops,tanks,and artillery.After the bombing Hitler immediatley began setting up "security" to annihilate ALL enemies of the Nazi.
  • Germany invades France

    Germany invades France
    German forces defeated Allied Forces by mobile operations and conquered France,Belgium,Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The German has consisted two main operations in Fall Gelb which is a way of saying case yellow. The British have evacuated the British Expeditionary Force(BEF) and several French divisions from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.That's when the Germans have created Fall Rot which is also said as case red on the 5th of June.
  • Germany bombed London

    Germany bombed London
    On September 7th in the afternoon over 1,000 German aircraft, over 300 bombers escorted by 600 fighters crossed the channel. This was the most largest collection of aircraft. Over 430 civilians were killed and 1600 were seriously injured.
  • U.S. Gave war supplies to Britain

    U.S. Gave war supplies to Britain
    This was called the "Lend-Lease" and "Military Aid" to the allies in the early years of world war 2. The United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the allies. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that the United States would remain neutral in law. Roosevelt will make the effort to help nations engage in the struggles against the Nazi Germany.
  • Germany Invades the Soviet Union

    Germany Invades the Soviet Union
    Under the codname operation "Barbossa," Nazi Germany invaded the soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation in World War 2. The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanate elimination of the percieved Communist threat to Germany and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long term German settlement had been the core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920's.
  • Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
    Hundreds of Japanese fighters planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels including eight enormous battleships and over 300 airlplanes. Over 2,400 Americans have died in the attack including civilains, and another 1,000 people were wounded .
  • Germany declared war on United States

    Germany declared war on United States
    The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941 which has the United States declare a was against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany also declared war on United States. In response there was a claim to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still offically neutral during World War 2. The person that was incharge of choosing if there should be war is by Adolf Hitler, which was apparently offhand.
  • United States Victoriuos over Japan

    United States Victoriuos over Japan
    Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War 2.The victory follwed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. U.S. and japanese navies in the north-centeral Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan's desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escape destruction at Pearl Harbor.
  • Allied troops on D-Day

    Allied troops on D-Day
    The majority of the troops were from the United Kingdom, Canada< and the U.S. However, troops from many other countries participated in D-Day and the battle of Normady in all different armed services.
  • United States dropped an Atomic bomb on Japan

    United States dropped an Atomic bomb on Japan
    The United States became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima. Dropping the atomic bomb on japan marked the end of World War 2. SInce 1940 the united states have been working on deleoping an atomic weapon after being warned by Albert Einstein that the Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons.