WW2 Timeline

By aarnoldcr1221
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    Battle of the Atlantic

    -German U-boats sank unprotected U.S. ships and other merchant ships
    -Allies began using convoys to protect ships
    -Allies used sonars to detect German U-boats

  • Pearl Harbor

    -Sunday morning the U.S. army was taken off guard by 2 full blown attacks by Japan
    - 2.400 U.S. military and Civilions died
    - It was considered a stunning victory for Japan

  • U.S declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Itlay declare war on U.S.

  • U.S. and Australia stopped Japan from invading

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    Battle of the Coral Sea

    -Japan won the actual battle
    -U.S. began using the island hopping technique to weaken japans forces
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    Battle of Midway

    -Admiral Clester Nimitz intercepted Japan's code
    - U.S. launched surprise attack on Japan
    - U.S was successful
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    -Germans violated non-aggression with Soviet Union and attacked
    -Soviet army began to move westward towards Germany
    -Soviets won

  • Normandy Invasion (D-Day)

    -Allies pushed north into Italy
    -150,000 Allied troops invaded
    - Largest land sea operation in history

  • France freed from Nazi control

    -Paris Liberated
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    Battle of Bulge

    -German tanks broke through American lines
    -Very brutal war
    -Americans won, but were close to losing
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    U.S. occupation of Japan

    -7 out of 8 leaders found guilty and sentenced to death
    -U.S. occupied for 6 years under direction of General Douglas MacAuthur

  • Yalta Conference

    -F.D.R., Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta to discuss post WW2
    -Set up United Nations
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    Iwo Jima

    -Island in the Pacific critical to U.S. win
    -27,000 Japanese held Iwo Jima
    -U.S. won
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    Battle of Okinawa

    • Japans last defensive stronghold -Japans used 1,900 Kamikaze attacks -U.S. won

  • F.D.R. dies

    • At the begnning of the 4th term F.D.R. passes away
    • U.S. has a major grieving period
    • Harry S. Truman takes over as president

  • The end of Hitler

    -Hitler and Eva Braud commit suicide by gun shot and cyanite
    -Their Bodies were burned

  • V-E day

    -General Eisenhower accepted surrender
    -V-E day = Victory in Europe Day
    -1st part of the war is over
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    Potsdam

    -Trawman, Churchill, Clement and Stalin met in Potsdam Germany
    -Drew blueprints to disarm Germany and eliminate Nazi regime

  • Hiroshima

    -”Little boy”
    -In 43 seconds the city collapse to dust
    - hit by a Atomic bomb launched by U.S.

  • Nagasaki

    -”Fat man”
    -Leveled half of the city
    - hit by an atomic bomb launched by U.S.

  • Japan offers uncondittionel surrender

  • V-J Day

    -Victory day in Japan
    -Japans formal surrender
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    Nuremberg Trials

    • International tribunal court tried Nazi officials -12 of the 22 defendants sentenced to death -200 officials, found guilty