WWII Timeline

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    7,500 jewish business were looted around 191 synagogues were set flame, many were killed and others sent to concentration camps
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    Germany invaded Poland, this was the act that started WWII
  • Italy Enters the War

    Italy Enters the War
    Italy had invaded southern France.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    300 bombers raided london, this was one of 57 consecutive bombings that happened
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Hitler had launched his army to invade the soviet union. Barbossa was a crucial turning point in WWII.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The United States Naval base was attacked by japanese planes at Pearl Harbor. Killed more than 2,300 people.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    Surrendered filipinos and Americans were rounded up by the Japanese and were forced to march 65 miles from Mariveles to San Fernando.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    It was the largest confrontation of WWII. Germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control over Stalingrad
  • Germans Launch a Tank

    Germans Launch a Tank
    The Germans had launched an attack near Kursk in the Soviet Union
  • D- Day

    D- Day
    Largest military assaults in history. 156,000 American, canadian and british forces landed on Frances normandy region
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    The Germans had mounted one final offense through the Ardennes forest against weak center of American Lines.
  • Auschwitz Liberated

    Auschwitz Liberated
    The Soviet Union had entered Auschwitz and liberated around 7,000 prisoners who also happen to be very ill and in bad condition.
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    Major battle in which united states where marine corps landed on and captured the island of Iwo Jima
  • Hitler Committed Sucide

    Hitler Committed Sucide
    A german politician, leader of the Nazi party killed himself by gunshot.
  • Germany Surrenders to Western Allies

    Germany Surrenders to Western Allies
  • Victory in Europe Day

    Victory in Europe Day
    This was the day of Nazi Germany's surrender of it's armed forces
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day
    This day marks the formal acceptance by the World War 2 allies of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
  • Atomic Bombing of Japan

    Atomic Bombing of Japan
    An American B-29 bomber had dropped an atomic bomb on the japanese cite of Hiroshima
  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan

    Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan
    After the last atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a few days after the U.S dropped an atomic bomb on the city of nagasaki.
  • Imperial Japan Surrenders

    Imperial Japan Surrenders
    The surrender of imperial Japan happened on September 2 of 1945. This brought WWII to a close