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WW2 Timeline

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    Dictator of Italy. Dictator from 1921 from 1943. Leader of Italy during the WW2.
  • Hitler become chancellor of Germany

    Hitler become chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes leader (dictator) of Germany.
  • Hitler Remilitarizes Rhineland

    Hitler Remilitarizes Rhineland

    Germany invaded (entered) the rhineland breaking the treaty of versailles and the lacarno treaties.
  • Germany annexes Austria

    Germany annexes Austria

    German troops marched into Austria and overthrew their government. Annexed Austria within a day.
  • Munich Agreement

    Munich Agreement

    Agreement of the regulation of "Sudetenland", a part of Czechoslovakia that was under German control.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Part of the blitzkrieg strategy. Beginning of WW2. Germany invades poland and take thier capital.
  • Germany conquers France

    Germany conquers France

    Took place after the battle of France or the fall of france, when Germany invaded.
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan form the Axis Powers

    Germany, Italy, and Japan form the Axis Powers

    Germany, Italy, and Japan form the Axis Powers because they wanted to destabilize Europe.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Where congress authorized the sale, lease, and exchange of weapons to whos defense aids the U.S.
  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany invades Soviet union to gain land. Start another war causing two fronts.
  • The U.S. enters ww2

    The U.S. enters ww2

    Japan bombs pearl harbor Hawaii because the U.S. refused to trade. The U.S. immediately declared war on Japan.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Naval Battle in Pacific ocean against Japan. Callled the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.
    AMERICAN VICTORY
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal

    code-named Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi, by Allied forces.
    ALLIES WON.
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    The battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
    SOVIET VICTORY
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch

    Allied invasion of North Africa. First time British and Americans fought together.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    was a meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt,Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front.
    ALLIES WON
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Liberation of Auschwitz

    Soviet troops liberated larges Nazi deathcamp. Most prisoners evacuated through death march by nazi's before hand.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese during World War II.
    AMERICAN VICTORY
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss final plans of ww2
  • The Battle of Okinawa,

    The Battle of Okinawa,

    Codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands. UK helped.
    ALLIES WON
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    Victory in Europe day. Win the allied forces invaded Berlin. Also a public Holiday.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan killing 80,000 instantly and killing tens of thousand with radiation.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Japan killing 40,000 instantly and more wih radiation.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    V-J Day is the day Japan Surreneder to the Unied States. The offical end of WW2
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    Nuremburg Trials

    Series of trials to sentence war criminals and prosecute prominent memebers of the Nazis.
  • Taft-Hartley Act

    Taft-Hartley Act

    A United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Collective defense /friendship treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.