WWII

By Tyhoag

  • Rise of Francism and Natzism

    Hitler tried to make Natzism more popular in Germany, and it happened of course.

  • Neutrality Act

    The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.

  • Germany’s expansion and annexation of Austria

    Poland, Denmark, Norway, Western Europe, Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Drove Britian out of Italia.

  • Signing of the Non Aggressive Pact

    Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.

  • Transition of the US home front to War production

    The females would go into the factory's and work for the men and make military weapons and ammo so they could protect the country.

  • Blitzkrieg attack on Poland

    Poland was attacked by Germany. The German attack was code-named Operation White (Fall Weiss). The attack on Poland started at 04.45 hours when blitzkrieg tore through the Polish military and by the end of the month Poland had surrendered to the Germans and the country was occupied.

  • Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom.

  • Lend Lease Act

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

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

  • Invasion of Africa by Eisenhower

    After proving himself on the battlefield of North Africa and Italy, Eisenhower was appointed commander and resides to take down Africa.

  • The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. [6][7][8] Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union.

  • D-Day

    More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.

  • Liberation of Majdanek

    Soviet forces liberated the Majdanek extermination camp. The Polish-Soviet Nazi Crimes Investigation Commission, established to document Nazi atrocities committed during the German occupation of Poland, ordered exhumations at Majdanek as part of its efforts to investigate Nazi mass killings in the camp.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

  • Battle of Okinawa

    The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg,[6] was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.

  • V-E Day

    Surrender of the armed forces.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

  • V-J Day

    Formal surrender ceremony held in Tokyo where Japan surrendered.