WWII Events

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  • FDR's death

    FDR's death

    32nd president of the US until his death
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    About six million European Jews were killed by Hitler's army.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Hitler claiming it as a defensive action invaded Poland.
  • Stalin Attacks Finland

    Stalin Attacks Finland

    Invasion of Finland ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty.
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    Germany defeated its allied forces by sending mobile operations and conquered France.
  • Winston Churchill becomes Prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes Prime minister of Britain

    First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    When the Royal Air force of Britain defended the United Kingdom against the Air forces of Germany.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
  • Lend-lease act

    Lend-lease act

    Military aid to Britain.
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler gave the order to German forces to invade Yugoslovia.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    A surprise attack by the Japanese military air base on Pearl Harbor.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Nazi Germany and its allies fought Germany.
  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps

    The japanese Americans were forced to relocate themselves.
  • German Blitzkrieg

    German Blitzkrieg

    Germans broke using armory into he soviet union.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    A decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of the Western desert Campaign of the Second World War.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    Originally applied to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    A meeting held after the Invasion of Anglo Soviet Invasion of Iran.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied forces invaded France.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The WWII meeting of the heads of the government officials of different countries.
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination

    Executed by an anti-fascist partisan.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide

    On April 30 1945, Hitler committed suicide.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Participants were the US, Soviet Union and UK.
  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    Formed to prevent another World War.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    Military tribunals held by Allied forces after WWII
  • Cold war

    Cold war

    Geopolitical tension after WWII
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    President Truman signed the Economy Recovery Act.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    American initiative to aid Western Europe.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    First major international crisis of the cold war.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 Day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Barrier dividing Berlin.