WWII timeline

By daveecardenas

  • Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister

    During this time of vulnerability Mussolini abuses the weakness of the Italians and makes his way to Prime Minister. He takes position in 1922

  • Stalin comes to power

    founded in 1922. When Lenin died in 1924 Joseph Stalin took power.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler entered the government and eliminated his competition and took over Germany

  • Holocaust

    2/3 of the 9 million Jews were killed by Hitler during WWII.

  • Invasion of Poland

    Hitler continued pushing the boundaries of the treaty.

  • Lend- Lease

    During the WWII the lend lease act was passed to provide aid to the military.

  • War production board

    The WPB changed the focus of industries from peacetime work to war needs, and eliminated nonessential production.

  • Pearl Harbor

    When Japan was trying to conquer the Philippines the United States cut the supply of oil to Japan.

  • America Declares war on Japan

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor FDR gives a speech "a day that will live in infamy."

  • Executive Order 9066

    This order declare certain areas as military zones sending Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian-Americans to concentration camps in the United States.

  • Operation Torch

    The British American invasion of North Africa during the campaign of WWII.

  • D-Day

    Great Britain and America invaded Northern France by means of beach landings.

  • Iwo JIma

    Iwo jima was Americas first strike on Japans homeland. After one month of fighting America ended victorious raising their flag.

  • Battle of Okinana

    Over 287,000 American soldiers were involved and this was on of the biggest battlers in the Pacific.

  • Atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The U.S. dropped nuclear weapons on Japan during the final stage of WWII.

  • End of WWII

    In 1945 the allies invaded the Japanese land and the axis powers surrendered.