Pre-WWII, WWII, & Post-WWII Timeline

  • First Neutrality Act id passed

    First Neutrality Act id passed

    Congress passd the Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to the US
  • Signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis

    Signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis

    The linking of 2 fascist countries: Italy and Germany
  • Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact

    Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact

    Anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan and was directed against the Third International
  • Hitler declares Austria as part of the Third Reich

    Hitler declares Austria as part of the Third Reich

    Hitler invaded Austria and claimed it as German Austria
  • The Munich Confrence is called

    The Munich Confrence is called

    The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi's annexation of portions of other contries mainly inhabited by German speakers
  • German Troops invade Czechoslovakia

    German Troops invade Czechoslovakia

    This happened when Germany, Italy, France, and Great Brtain signed the Munich Pact saying that Czechoslovakia has to be taken off the map
  • Mussolini invades Albania

    Mussolini invades Albania

    Mussolini invades becasue of other imperialistic things from the Albanians
  • German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact signed

    German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact signed

    A pact that stated the Soviets and Germans will not take any military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Germany attacks Poland

    Germany attacks Poland

    start of the Invasion of Poland
  • The Soviet Union attacks Finland

    The Soviet Union attacks Finland

    Finland was attack by the Soviets in a battle that was supposed to be easy but turned out being challenging
  • Germans invade the Netherlands, Beguim, and Luxenbourg

    Germans invade the Netherlands, Beguim, and Luxenbourg

    Germans take down these 3 nations, and each take 1 day to take over
  • Germans invade Denmark and Norway

    Germans invade Denmark and Norway

    an invasion that the Germans took over Normay and Denmark
  • Winston Churchhill is named as Prime Minister of Great Britain

    Winston Churchhill is named as Prime Minister of Great Britain

    Winston Churchhill become prime minister
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    Evacuation at Dunkerque

    Allied soldiers were evacuated of the beach and harbor of Dunkirk
  • Mussolini declares war on Great Britain and France

    Mussolini declares war on Great Britain and France

    This day Italy declared war on Great Britain and France because he had to live up to Hitler and he was running out of raw materials
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    Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force.
  • Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy

    Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy

    With Japan making an alliance with Nazi Germany and Italy they made the big 3 Axis powers
  • Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya

    Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya

    Takes control of Libya and gets a new name as "the Desert Fox"
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    Germany attacks Soviet Union

    The operation was called Operation Barbarbossa
  • Churchhill and Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter

    Churchhill and Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter

    Joint Declation that was signed 2 weeks earlier in Newfoundland
  • Pearl Harbor is attacked

    Pearl Harbor is attacked

    Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japanese making US going into WWII
  • US Congress declares war on Japan

    US Congress declares war on Japan

    The US decides to go into WWII from the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
  • Wannsee Confrence

    Wannsee Confrence

    Meeting of senior officials in Nazi Germany
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    The US surrender on the Baatan Penninsula on the main Philippine Island of Luzon to Japanese
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Naval Battle in the Pacific that was fought from June 3, 1942 to June 7, 1942
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    Major battle on the Eastrern Front of WWII where Nazi Germany fought the Soviets to gain the city of Stalingrad.
  • MacArthur lands in the Philippines

    MacArthur lands in the Philippines

    MacArthur lands in Phlippines as a General for the US to fight the Japanese
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Operations land on Normandy Beaches for the allied invasion on Axis
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    Victory in Europe is the meaning and it is when WWII accepts the Allies won from the Nazi's surrender
  • Potsdam Confrence

    Potsdam Confrence

    Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill , and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    The day that Truman declared the war over and V-J Day was made in celebration.