WWII Key Terms Timeline

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  • Invasion of Poland

    blitzkrieg
    Germany invades Poland
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    WWII Key Terms

  • Auschwitz Opens

    Shoah Auschwitz becomes operational.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

  • Japanese- American Internment

    internment American Government begins interning Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Declaration of War on Japan.

  • Tunisian Campaign

    theater of war
    Important series of battles in the African Theater of War

  • D-Day

    Operation Overlord
    Theater of War American invasion of the beaches of Normandy. Allied forces capture Normandy Beach from the Germans. One of the most famous battles of WWII/all time.
    Important battle in the European theater of war

  • Battle of Okinawa

    Theater of War Important battle in the Pacific Theater of War

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Fat Man and Little Boy U.S drops first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • United Nations are formed

    Franklin D. Roosevelt forms the United Nations

  • Nuremberg Trials begin

    Nuremberg Trials High ranking German officials of the Third Reich are tried for war crimes.

  • Creation of Israel

    Zionism Israel is created as a homeland for the Jews after the Holocaust