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American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany
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The Soviet Union ostensibly sought to claim parts of Finnish territory, demanding that Finland cede substantial border territories in exchange for land elsewhere
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As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain
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British and French commanders believed that Germany would attack through central Belgium. They attacked in the west.
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Royal Air Force defended the united kingdom from germay. It was a military campain
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Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act. Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States
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Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. the largest German military operation of World War II.
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Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought, by deploying troops to Romania
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The Japanese bombed a harbor in Hawaii. This got the us involved in the war.
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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.
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It was a forced relocation in camps in the western frontier.
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An important naval battle of World War II, between the United States and the Empire of Japan
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An operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces. First major offensive attack.
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The Second Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle. It marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign.
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A strategy meeting of Stalin. It happened after the Anglo-soviet unuions embassy
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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This foreign presence marked the only time in Japan's history that it had been occupied by a foreign power
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Six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler. Worse killing ever recorded on earth.
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Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States.
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Mussolini’s dream of re-creating the Roman Empire was stopped. Mussolini’s power base was quickly evaporating.
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He killed himself by gunshot
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm
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The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations.
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The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders.
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The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the Soviet Union and the United States as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences.
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U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, berlin was located inside soviet controlled lines.
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American initiative to aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $13 billion.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
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This timeline was made by Curtis Jackson
