WWII Time Line

  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev
    This man was the last Soviet Union leader.
  • Japan's Invasion of China

    Japan's Invasion of China
    Japan invaded china because they wanted more land.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    Germany invaded Poland that started WW2
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    Battle of Britain was the french and english fighting.
  • Tripartite Pact

    Tripartite Pact
    A pact made by the Axis Powers.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
    When the US supllied Britain with food and supplies.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    To help aid Europe in the war
  • Germany takes Leningrad

    Germany takes Leningrad
    Germany went and took over Leningrad.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
    When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    When the japanese bombed a US war air base.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    This conference was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The day the Americans stormed the beaches of Normandy.
  • Yalta Conference

    The meeting for the post war for Europe.
  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa
    An 82 day long battle.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide
    Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin.
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    When the Allied powers beat Germany and it is victory day in Europe.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    When the US, USSR, and UK came together to talk about the nucleur war.
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
    When the bomb was dropped on the these two cities in Japan.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day
    When the Japanese surrender to the US to end WW2.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
    The formation of the UN is countries coming together to protect the world.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere.[
  • NATO

    NATO
    The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
    He was the leader of china.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The war between South Korea and North Korea with the help of the Untied Nations.
  • Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
    This is the day he took power over Soviet Union.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO)[1] was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam war was a war where china helped vietnam try to defeat the US.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    A Russian space shuttle.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    Bay of pigs is located near Cuba.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    A barrier to separate east and west Berlin.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    When Cuba let the Soviet Union in with a missile that they were going to use on the US but never did.
  • Soviet Union falls

    Soviet Union falls
    The Soviet Union fall and it doesnt not come back.