ww2 timeline

By emilysullivan

  • Japanese invasion of China

    Japan invaded China

  • Rape of Nanking

    Japanese troops raped 20,000 women

  • Germany's invasion of Poland

    Hitler signed a nonagression pact with Poland in exchange for land and Germany attacked Poland

  • Fall of Paris

    Germans invade Paris

  • German Blizkrieg

    Military tactic designed to create among enemy forces.

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler invades Soviet Union. Germany was defeated

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacked American naval base in Pearl Harbor Honolulu,Hawaii

  • Wannsee Conference

    "Final Solution of Jewish Problem"confinement of the ghettos

  • Battle of Midway

    Naval battle in the Pacific

  • Operation Gomorrah

    Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing.

  • D-Day normandy invasion

    Invasion of Europe

  • Operation Thunderclap

    Bombing of Dresden "warcrime"

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    No Japanese surviors

  • VE Day

    Both American and Britain celebrate victory in Eutope Day defeating Nazi war machine

  • Battle of Okinowa

    island hopping to refuse bombs

  • Potsdam Declaration

    The Japanese surrenders

  • Dropping the atomic bomb

    b-29 bomb worlds first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • VJ Day

    Japan had surendered unconditionally to the allies ending ww2

  • Battle of Bulge

    3 German armies deadlest battle