WW2 timeline

  • Mussolini rises to power

    mussolini rises to power in Italy as prime minister later in 1925 as dictator
  • Hirohito rises to power

    Hirohito becomes in power in 1926 and later in 1932 japan became a full dictatorship under him
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    Great depression

    period of economic turmoil where many americans were left without jobs in the USA although it had greater impacts worldwide
  • Mao Zedong rises to power

    Mao Zedong begins and leads the peoples republic of china which eventually became the government of china after the war
  • japan begins expansion

    japan starts its conquest first with its invasion of Manchuria
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    Holocaust

    time when Nazi Germany massacred Jews in Europe
  • nuremberg laws

    laws go into effect causing the beginnings of what would be the holocaust which took place in Nuremberg
  • germany begins expansion

    Germany begins its long road of conquest beginning with the annex of Austria
  • Allies declare war on germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany following their invasion of Poland
  • Munich agreement

    agreement reached in Germany that allowed it to annex Czechoslovakia in hopes it would prevent war.
  • Kristallnacht (Night of the broken glass)

    it took place Nov 9 - 10 all over Germany and Austria where Jewish businesses, synagogues and homes were attacked by the Nazis
  • Non Aggression Pact with USSR

    pact that was signed between USSR and Germany that agreed to peace between them and divided the countries that were between the two nations with each other
  • Germany invades Poland

    Poland is invaded by Germany officially starting ww2
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    ww2

    world war that affected many countries
  • France is conquered by Germany

    France is completely conquered by Germany removing them from the war
  • battle of Britain

    battle between the British and other allied forces and German Airforce that lead to a Allied victory preventing a land invasion of Britain it ended in October 1940
  • German invasion of Russia

    Operation Barbarossa or when Germany began invading Russia going from june 1941 to December 5th 1941
  • USA enters the war

    after the attack on pearl harbor us joins war
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    japan attacks pearl harbor bringing the US into the war
  • battle of midway

    battle between US and japan on island of Midway credited as the turning point of the war in the pacific theater
  • battle of Stalingrad

    battle where Germany unsuccessfully attempted to conger Stalingrad
  • battle of Attu

    US and Canadian forces defend Alaskan islands from japan
  • D day invasion

    Ally forces land at Normandy France beginning to take back France
  • battle of iwo jima

    US marines invade island of iwo jima
  • battle of berlin

    USSR conquers berlin Germany's capital
  • Germany surrenders ww2

    Germany surrenders from the war
  • Potsdam declaration

    call for the unconditional surrender of japan
  • atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    on the 6th and 9th these cities are bombed effectively ending the war
  • japan surrenders ww2

    Japan officially surrenders ending the global conflict