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WWII

  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking

    The Japanese massacred 150,000, male war prisoners, 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 females of all ages.
  • Start of European Theater

    Start of European Theater

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic

    It was the longest military campaign of the war, lasting from 1939 until the end of the war in 1945. This campaign was the most important because it still had major battles on land in countries like china, japan, and southeast Asia, but all of the other major powers fought over trade routes in the sea. So what was happening wasn't only its own campaign, it affected the European one too.
  • Evacuation of Dunkirk

    Evacuation of Dunkirk

    The evacuation of Dunkirk was when allied troops evacuated from Dunkirk on the north coast of France. In total, about 250,000 allied troops were saved in about a week.
  • Lend- Lease Act

    Lend- Lease Act

  • Pearl Harbor Attacked

    Pearl Harbor Attacked

  • Start of Pacific Theater

    Start of Pacific Theater

  • U.S. Declares war

    U.S. Declares war

  • Doolittle raid

    Doolittle raid

    It was a bombing misson on Japan by the Americans. They bombed Tokyo and other locations that were on Honshu. This was the first air attack on the main Japanese Islands
  • Battle of midway

    Battle of midway

    It was a battle near the islands of midway. It was another attack by the Japanese navy to try to cripple the U.S. Navy for the rest of the war. But instead, the Japanese took a terrible defeat that almost crippled their naval fleet for the rest of the war.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    In this battle, Germany and its allies fought Russia in the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia. The battle was in a mainly urban, close quarters environment and there were air raids that killed civilians.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Also known as the Ardennes Offensive, it was a German invasion into northern France and Luxembourg. The region of Ardennes was being held by resting and worn out American divisions.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    It was an important battle where U.S. marines landed on Iwo Jima to fight off the Japanese on the island.
  • FDR Dies

    FDR Dies

  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

  • D-Day

    D-Day

  • Nagasaki Bombed

    Nagasaki Bombed

  • Hiroshima Bombed

    Hiroshima Bombed

  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

  • Creation of United Nations

    Creation of United Nations