WW2 TIMELINE

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoat was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler Nazi Germany and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun
  • Stalin Attacks Finland

    Stalin Attacks Finland
    the Red Army crosses the Soviet Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed and President Roosevelt quickly extended $10 million in credit to Finland, while also noting that the Finns were the only people to pay back their World War I war debt to the United States in full
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France
    the invasion , Germany attack the west of France during the second world war
  • Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister Of Britain

    Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister Of Britain
    Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latters resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons
  • Battle of britain

    Battle of britain
    the battle of britain in the summer German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act of March 11 1941 in which Congress authorized the sale lease, transfer or exchange of arms and supplies to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States
  • Hitler Takes Over The Balkans

    Hitler Takes Over The Balkans
    Adolf Hitler gave the order for German forces backed by Italian Romanian Hungarian and Bulgarian Axis allies to invade Yugoslavia and Greece
  • German Blitzkrieg on soviet union

    German Blitzkrieg on soviet union
    Under the code name Operation Barbarossa Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps
    the internment of Japanese Americans in the united states during the world war ll was the forced relocation
  • Battle Of Midway

    Battle Of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War
  • Battle of stalingrand

    Battle of stalingrand
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
    how results Decisive Soviet victory, Destruction of the German 6th Army, Axis powers lose strategic initiative on the Eastern Front
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Strategic Allied victory , The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and commended Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied force.
  • Battle of Alamein

    Battle of Alamein
    The Second Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein
  • Terhan conference

    Terhan conference
    The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943 after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Yalta conference

    Yalta conference
    The Yalta Conference sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference
  • F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R's Death
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945
  • Mussolini's assassination

    Mussolini's assassination
    the deposed Italian dictator occurred on 28 April of 1945 in the finals days of world war ll in Europe, when he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giuliani DI Mezzegra in northern Italy
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide
    the suicide of hittler is a mystery. dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam occupied Germany from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union the United Kingdom and the United States
  • Atomic Bomb Hiiroshima y Nagasaki

    Atomic Bomb Hiiroshima y Nagasaki
    After World War II most of Hiroshima would be rebuilt, though one destroyed section was set aside as a reminder of the effects of the atomic bomb. Each August 6, thousands of people gather at Peace Memorial Park to join in interfaith religious services commemorating the anniversary of the bombing
  • Macarthur's Plan For Japan

    Macarthur's Plan For Japan
    The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state. Between 1945 and 1952, the U.S. occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
    The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945
  • Nurembing Trials

    Nurembing Trials
    The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the worlds supe rpowers to the brink of disaster
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor.

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor.
    the attack on the pearl on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II.
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan
    was an American initiative to aid western Europe in which the united states gave over $ 13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of world war II
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet controlled eastern Germany.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 Constructed by the German Democratic Republic
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile