WWII

By jdewitt97

  • Hitler Violates Treaty of Versailles

  • Germany 'Anschluss' with Austria

  • Chamberlin appeased Hitler at Munich Conference

  • Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass

  • Start of WWII

    Start of WWII

  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Germany Invades Paris

  • German U-Boats attack merchants in Atlantic

  • British on defensive in Western Desert of Noth Africa vs Italy

  • Roosevelt signs Lend-and-Lease Act

  • Germany vs. Soviet Union "Operation Barbarossa"

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan drops bombs on Pearl Harbor killing 1500, sending the U.S. to war.

  • Begins the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz

  • Operation Torch - US invasion of North Africa

  • Germans lose major battle at Stalingrad

  • Germany and Italy troops forfeit in North Africa

  • Americans Capture Palermo, Sicily

  • D-Day Invasion

    D-Day Invasion
    160,000 troops landed on 50mile long beach to fight off the Nazi forces in Normandy, France.

  • Hitlers commits Suicide

  • VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day)

    VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day)
    WWII Allied Forces formally accept Germany's surrender of its armed forces.

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • 2nd Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Surrender of Japan

    Surrender of Japan
    Japan surrenders to the Allied Powers.

  • United Nations is Born