WW2 Timeline

  • Nazi Party was founded

    Nazi Party was founded
    The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: About this sound Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practised Nazism. Its predecessor, the German Workers' Party
  • Beer Hall Putch

    Beer Hall Putch
    The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,[1] and, in German, as the Hitlerputsch or Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders — to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 8–9 November 1923. About two thousand men marched to the centre of Munich, where they confronted the police, which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four policemen. Hitler himself w
  • Kellogg–Briand Pact

    Kellogg–Briand Pact
    This was an agreement to outlaw war and prevent another world war
  • US stock market crash

    US stock market crash
    On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.
  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria
    The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
    Hitler Becomes Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany with his NAZI party NSDAP.
  • First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany

    First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
    Hitler succesfully passes Anti-Jewish laws
  • Mussolini Invades Ethiopia

    Mussolini Invades Ethiopia
    In 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German.
  • Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland

    Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
    Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by Militarizing the Rhineland along the Rhine River in Western germany.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    Germany, France, and Britain sign the Munich Pact which virtually gives Czechoslovokia to Germany
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Nazis in Germany torched jewish homes, stores, and library's
  • Start WW2 Germany invades Poland

    Start WW2 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.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    German and Britain air forces battled over the UK. Britain later won because German forces could not gain air superiority over Britain.
  • Pearl Harbor bombed

    Pearl Harbor bombed
    A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The U.S. Broke Jaanese codes and intercepted A japanese fleet which was a turning in the point For the U.S. pacific campaign
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    The allied invasion of French North Africa. this was the first time Britain and americans work together.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.
  • Victory in Europe Day

    Victory in Europe Day
    On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms.
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders
    By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands.
  • Nazi Party was dissolved

    Nazi Party was dissolved
    The Nazi Party was after the loss in WW2 dissolved.
  • Start of the Cold War

    Start of the Cold War
    This was the result of the tension between the U.S and the U.S,S,R. during WWII.