WWII Time Line

  • Japanese invasion of China

    Japanese invasion of China
    A fight between the Republc of China and the Empire of Japan
  • Germany's invasion of poland

    Germany's invasion of poland
    Poland's army was defeated with in a week of the invasion. Germany bsically just went and over powered Poland.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Code name for Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Empire if Japan launchted an attack on Pearl Harbor making one of the bloodiest day on U.S. soil.
  • Wansee Conference

    Wansee Conference
    Wansee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany which was held in a suburb of Wansee on January 20th 1942
  • Operation Gomorrah

    Operation Gomorrah
    Created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Air force killing42,000 civilians
  • D-day

    D-day
    Was the landing operations of allied invasion of normandy in operation Overload during WWII
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    was a major German offensice campaign launched through the densley forested region of Wallonia in Belgium
  • Battle of lwo Jima

    Battle of lwo Jima
    Was a major battle in which the United States armed forces landedand eventually captured the island of lwo jimma from Japans army
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    Was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during WWII
  • VE-day

    VE-day
    Was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of WWII of Nazi Germany.
  • Dropping of the atomic bombs

    Dropping of the atomic bombs
    United States dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings which killed at least 129,000 people.
  • VJ-Day

    VJ-Day
    On August 15th 1945 news spread of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked celebrations over the final ending of WWII
  • Operation Thundercap

    Operation Thundercap
    A plan for a massive attack on Berlin in the beleif that would cause 220,000 casualties.