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WWII events timeline

By Irislew
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    A mass exicution of Jews/ Gays and many more led my Adolf Hitler.
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland
    Stalin attacks Finland so he can gain more land around Leningrad.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    Start of the WW2
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France
    -Germany takes Paris
    -Phony War
    -Germany creates Vichy city (puppet city)
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
  • Battle Of Britian

    Battle Of Britian
    Germany bombed Britian
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    Asystem that will alow the US to lend or lease wepons for the war.
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans
    Hitler takes over the Balkans
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    Japanese launched an air attack on Pear Harbor.
    -Reason why America got into the war
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
    representitives form 26 countries sighned the Decleration of the United Nations.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps
    All people of Japanese deccent living in the U.S. where taken out of thier homes and placed in internment camps.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Japanese planned to attack at Midway.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Air sea battle between Japanese and Americans.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    Turning point of WW2
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
    Fought in North Frica. Desert Fox (Rommel)
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference
    "The Big Three" met in Iran
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Battle on the beaches of France fought by the Americans British etc.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered to discuss the war.
  • F.D.R.s Death

    F.D.R.s Death
    Franklin D. Rosevelt, Presedent of the U.S. dies.
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination
    Mussolini was shot in the heas after giving a speach. Later was hung.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide
    He swallowed cyanide then shot himself in the head.
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan
    "People of the Phillipenes, I have returned"
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    "The Big Three" leaders met in Berlin, German
  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
    Bombed by the U.S. City was destroyed. up to 70,000 deaths
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials
    24 men accused of crimes
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    US sponsored program to rehabilitate the economies of Europe.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    After WW2
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    created to keep the fascits out of East Germany.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    At the end of WW2 the main allied powers divided Germany
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Presedent Kennedy surrounded cuba with miisles and such becuase the Soviet Union was making missles in Cuba.