WW2 Timeline

By mattjohnson23

  • Great Depression Begins

    The serious and world-wide economic declinde in the 1930's. This was due to the Stock market crash of 1929.

  • Tuskegee Airmen Start-10th May 1930, End- 10th May 1945

    This was a famous segregated unit of African American pilots. During the war the white offices wouldn't allow the black people who volunteered to be in the war to fight, because of the color of their skin. This caused it so that African Americans created their own seperate forces in order to fight in the war because white people wouldn't allow blacks and whites to fight together, even in a time like WW2.

  • Japan conquers Manchuria in Northern China.

    In 1931 the Japanese Kwangtang army attacked Chinese troops. This was an attempt to gain control over the whole province. They were planning on eventually engulfing all of East Asia.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    In the election of 1932, the Nazis won 37% of the vote, Hitler demanded to be appointed Chancellor. A different Chancellor was appointed but none of them could control the Reichstag so Hitler was appointed Chancellor, but the other politicians didn't think he would become as powerful as he did.

  • Roosevelt first elected President

    FDR first elected in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression and served til 1945, he served a total of three terms. FDR was kept as president beecause he saved America from complete economic disaster.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were laws that took away Jewish rights, they referred to Jewish people as subjects not people. Even if the person didn't practice Judaism, and just had Jewish ancestry, they would be defined as a Jew.

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    The alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan.

  • Japan Invades China

    Japan wanted to expand their territory in order to have more land, this caused them to invade China in hope of taking it over.

  • Germany Invades Austria

    There had been several years of previous pressure between the two countries. Hitler wanted to expand into the "semi-german" area because he wanted to take over all of Germany and because he thought all Germany areas should be under one ruler.

  • Britain's Appeasement of Germany.

    The two countries made a deal that Hitler would stop trying to take over places if he gained control of Sudetenland, and they should have listened to the warning.

  • Kristallnacht

    This was a series of coordinate attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria. The attacks, that were extremely violent, left the streets covered with broken glass. 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 were arrested and put into concentration camps.

  • Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact.

  • Germany invades Poland-Blitzkrieg

    Germany used their "light war" tactics for this attack. This is the event that begins the entire war and drags other countries into it due to pacts being signed.

  • The Lend-Lease Act

    This act allowed the U.S to lend or lease weapons and supplies to allied countries, it was approved by Roosevelt.

  • Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France

  • German Air Force (Luttwaffe) bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain

  • Japan joins the Axis powers

  • World War 2 start

  • The Nazis impliment the "Final Solution"

    The goal of the nazis was to get rid of all of the Jews they could, as fast as they could. At first they were sending them to camps and having them work to death, but that process became too slow for them. After a bit of time working them to death the nazis think of the final solution. This is putting them straight into gas chambers and suffocating them to death in a simple process that was decrete and only took about 15 minutes.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Germany Invades the Soviet Union

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    On this day Japan played out a surprise attack on the U.S. They went up on the home front of Hawaii and bombed the Harbor. The U.S was not expection this at all and it caused many ships to be damaged and many people were injured and killed as well.

  • Japanese-American Incarceration

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor Americans began thinking about Japanese people differently. If they say Japanese-Americans who had nothing to do with the attack, they would be rude to them and have hatred towards them because of their Japanese ancestry. Japanese were sent to camps where they were forced to work because American's no longer liked them and no longer thought that they should be treated as humans after the attack.

  • British forces stop the German advance at El Alamein

  • Bataan Death March

    More than 70,000 American and Filipino troops surrendered to the Japanese in the Philipines. From there the Japanese marched the soldiers over 65 miles to camps. Along that way over 10,000 prisoners died from shootings, beatings, and starvation. This later became known as the Bataan Death March.

  • The Battle of Midway

    This was a battle of U.S victory over the Japanese at Midway Island. This battle was proven to be the turning point of the war.

  • German forces surrender at Stalingrad

    The battle here lasted for months. After many months of hard fighting germany finally had to surrender.

  • Guadalcanal

    This was the first U.S land victory over the Japanese. Later, the U.S won the battle that they got this land from.

  • D-Day

    This was an allied invasion of France. This was the largest seaborn invasion in history, by the end of the month 850,000 allied troops had gone into France.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    This was a battle that occured during the end of WW2. This was the bloodiest battle fought in by the U.S during the war. The allied forces beat Germany and won this battle.

  • Yalta Conference

    The conference where the allies planned the post world war. Allies: U.S, Russia, Great Britain, France, China, Poland, Austria, Denmark, and India. Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan, and Hungary.

  • Iwo Jima

    At the near end of the war the U.S soldiers put an American flag at the top of Mt. Suribachi to symbolize U.S victory.

  • Okinawa

    In April the U.S invaded Okinawa. It took a while for this island and Iwo Jima to be conquered and many people died in the process.

  • Roosevelt Dies, Truman becomes president

  • Formation of the United Nations

    50 Nations met in San Francisco to discuss a new peacekeeping organization to replace the weak and inaffective League of Nations.

  • Allied Forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders

    At first in this battle the German forces are able to push back the Allies. As it continues the U.S comes in and pushes back the German forces, eventually Germany surrenders.

  • Rosie the Riveter - Start 10th May 1945, End on 10th May 1945

    Rosie the Riveter was a character that symbolized women in manufacturing jobs. Before the war, women were still not doing equal jobs as men, and were still thought of as people who had to prepare food and clean the house. In WW2 that changed, when men went off to war, someone had to be working in the factories and the women did so, this was when women stepped in and played their part in the war.

  • The First Atomic bomb is dropped on Japan

    American's drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This is the first atomic bomb used in war and catches everyone by surprise. Soon after the attack the Japanese surrendered and then war ended.

  • Formation of the United Nations

    All 50 nations ratified the charter, creating a new international peacekeeping body known as the United Nations - President Roosevelt had urged Americans not to turn their backs on the world again - Unlike the League of Nations, the United States is a member of the United Nations.

  • Potsdam Conference Start-July 17th, 1945, End-August 2nd, 1945

    Allies held the the Potsdam conference to plan the war's end, the decision was made to put the Nazi war criminals on trial.

  • World War 2 end

  • Japanese officials sign an official letter of surrender on the U.S.S Missouri, ending WW2

  • Nuremberg Trials Start-November 20th, 1945 - End October 1st, 1946

    24 defendants, including some of Hitlers top officials, Hermann Goering - creator and head of Gestapo (secret police), charged with crimes against humanity, even in wartime, you are still responsible for the crimes you commit, all of Hitlers family had killed themselves so they wouldn't be put on trial.

  • Marshall Plan

    Congress approved Secretary of State George Marshall's plan to help boost European economies - The U.S gave mroe than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe to get back on their feet.