World war 2

WWII Event Timeland

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    WWII

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germans invade Blitzkrieg, Poland. this war was called the lightning war. Germany did this to gain power.
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline.
  • Winston Churuchill becomes prime minister

    Winston Churuchill becomes prime minister

    He get elected to be the prime minister in Britain.
  • Hitler takes over balkans

    Hitler takes over balkans

    he invades with his army
  • Stalin Attacks Finland

    Stalin Attacks Finland

    To gain control.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    This is the killing of 6 million Jews in the collaborators of WWII.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Churuchhill suggested the concept of lending supplies to other democracies. Roosevelt passed the Lend-Lease Act in congress.
  • Bombing of Pearl Habor

    Bombing of Pearl Habor

    This where Japan lunched a surpise attack on the U.S. by bombing the air field on the coast of Hawaii. Also called "day we will live in infamy.'
  • Midway

    Midway

    This is where Japan sent a big army to Midway. this is a site of a big America air base. The U.S. broke Japanese secert codes, so they where ready for it.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Luftwaffe started late night bombings of Stalingrad. German controlled 90% of city and Stalin said defend this city at all cost.
  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps

    When Pearl Habor got bombed the U.S. put all Japanese in internment camps.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    First big offense battle the allies put in to play againist Japan.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    El Alamein is a little town in Egypt. British attacked the German Afrika Korps and retreated to the west.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    It was the meeting between FDR, Churchill, & Stalin in Iran.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    This was the invasion that was launched June 6, 1944 in the region of Normandy, France. The Allies attack stormed the beaches of Normany by five separate beachheads.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Its where Allies meet to talk about the final defeat of Germany. Also how to divide Germany, and what to do with the another European countrys.
  • F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R's Death

    President for most of WWll. He died of a storke.
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide

    killed himself to not go to war trial.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    A group formed for peace and security.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Allies meet in Berlin to decide on what to do with Germay, and other issues. Ex: boundaries of Poland. and occupation of Austria.
  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The explosion wiped out 90 percent of Hiroshima and immediately killed 80,000 people. The U.S. bombed them to try to put a stop to the war.
  • McArthur's Plan for Japan

    McArthur's Plan for Japan

    Demiltarize Japan and to put Japan's war criminals on trial. Also to put a constitutional monarchy in. Japam and U.S. become allies.
  • Mussolini's Assassination

    Mussolini's Assassination

    He was giving a speech in Rome when a bullet almost killed him.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials

    The Nuremberg Trials had 24 defendants and Hilter's top officals. They were chargesd with crimes againist humanity.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    This plan is for weaker European countries to get help from the U.S. To strengthen economies and kepp them from being communist.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The U.S. was traped in western Germany by the Soviet Union, so the U.S. had to fly in supplies.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    1103 foot wall built to sepatare east and west Berlin.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    Ebagro by the U.S. and U.S. invade Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Soviet Union puts missiles in Cuba and points them at U.S.