WWII Events

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    These was the invasion that kick started WWII.
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France's 800,000 man army.
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin had great intrest in Finland and wanted to take it, and he did it earlier than he set to do it.
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    He led Britain in the war, and refused to surrender to the Germans.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Britain was attacked by the German airforce.
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler wanted more power and control amd saw that they were a weak army and so he took over.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    This gave aid to the military's in the war.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    This is when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Representatives from 26 nations went to Washington D.C. to sign the treaty.
  • Halocaust

    Halocaust

    The Nazi's are causeing a mass murder on the Jews.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    People that went to these camps eventually died of starvation.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    There were two of these wars, the first one was fought in North Aftrica.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    This battle destroyed Japan's naval part of the military.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    The Soviet Union successfully defended the city of Stalingrad.
  • Guadalcanal

    This was a sea, air, land battle that lasted for 6 months with the Japanese.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    This was a fail on Hitlers part on the Soviet Union.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    This is where the leaders that met decided their military stragies.
  • D-Day

    This was the most brutal battle of all time. This was in Normandy France along 50 mile stretch of beaches.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    This is when the allied poweres met and dicussed the future of the war.
  • F.D.R. Death

    F.D.R. Death

    He died in Warm Springs Georgia because of Pollio.
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination

    He was shot by a woman 5 times, him and his wife were killed.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    He and his wife were found dead in his bunker, Hitler was under a blanket and his wife was laying across him.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    This was the conference where the end of the war was dicussed.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    This is when the Nazi leaders were on trial for war crimes.
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan

    He wanted to rebuild the country and get it back on its feet.
  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    USA bombed the Japan twice, on the 6th and the 9th.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    This was a war that was never fought.
  • supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

    supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

    supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    This was the plan to bring back 17 western economy's with USA's help.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    It was a wall seprating West and East Berlin.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Missiles built by the Soviet Union were put in Cuba pointed towards USA.