ww2 timeline

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  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Nazi took Jews into camps to work
  • Night of the Long Knives

    Night of the Long Knives

    Nazis carried out a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate Adolf Hitler's absolute hold on power in Germay
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland the Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

    Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    German went through the Ardennes Forest in southeastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. German tanks and infantry quickly broke through the French defensive lines and advanced to the coast.
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Churchill becomes Prime Minister
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    In the fall of 1940 German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Germany sought, by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japaneses bomb american base pearl harbor
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    camps made for Japaneses during ww2 in the untied states
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    the Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    the three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and made a number of important decisions concerning the post World War Il
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied forces invaded northern France in Normandy
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
  • F.D.R’s death

    F.D.R’s death

    FDR dies in warm springs
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination

    In the final days of World War II in Europe when he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    he and his wife commit suicide
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    the Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan

    marked the end of World War II and the beginning of a long road to recovery for a shattered Japan
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    created after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers
  • Marshal plan

    Marshal plan

    United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    divided Berlin garnered by a concrete barrier
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about nuclear weapons