WWII events timeline

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany,
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

    was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    A British military campaign that defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    a aid granted by United States Congress in which sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies was given to Britain
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

    The Balkan Campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • battle of stalingrad

    battle of stalingrad

    nazi germany fought the soviet union for control of stalingrad
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
  • battle of midway

    battle of midway

    an attack after the bombing of pearl harbor
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two.
  • guadalcanal

    guadalcanal

    an operation to take the island of tulagi
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran,
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The Allies invade Western Europe on June 6, 1944 to keep Nazi Germany from gaining control
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • F.D.R’s death

    F.D.R’s death

    when the president fdr dies
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination

    executed by italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    he shot himself in the head
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan

    mcarthur's plan to overthrow japan
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    usa bombed japan cause they didn't like anime and they killed neji from naruto
  • formation of the UN

    formation of the UN

    organization to promote international co-operation
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials

    prosecution for world war 2
  • cold war

    cold war

    The Cold War was the geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion[
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    to stop the food getting to berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    hat all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin