WWII Timeline

By SamBolton

  • Great Depression begins

    The stock market crash happened in 1929.
    The crash was a result of people investing too much time in stocks.
    The crash was the later cause of America’s first great depression.

  • o Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China

  • o Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1932.
    Hitler managed to be brought to power because he had inside men who theoretically rigged the vote making it be re-done until he won the election.
    This led to the rise of the Nazis and the all-out largest crimes committed in WWII.

  • o Roosevelt first elected president

    Elected in 1932 to be president of the United States.
    Roosevelt’s first notion was to introduce the “New Deal,” a way for people to earn money during the great depression.
    FDR being president led to his decisions in the war, and the, outcome of the war.

  • o Nuremberg Laws

    Laws created by the Nazi party in Nuremberg, Germany 1935.
    These laws were laws that enforced anti-Semitism, and made it dangerous for people of Jewish origin.
    This led to concentration camps and the eventual liberation of the Jewish people.
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    o Hitler & Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis

  • o Japan joins the Axis Powers

  • o Japan invades China

  • o Britain’s appeasement of Germany

    Also known as the Munich Agreement/Appeasement made in 1938.
    It was an agreement that was made to stop Germany/Hitler/The Nazi’s from expanding, for Sudetenland being given to Hitler in return.
    It led to Hitler gaining more land, then betraying Britain, and having only gained from the agreement.

  • o Germany invades Austria

    Germany invades Austria 1938
    Germans manage to overtake about half of Austria.
    It caused larger space for Germans.

  • o Kristallnacht

    It began November 9th and 10th 1938.
    Got its name from all the broken glass on the streets in its wake.
    It was a group of anti-Jewish Nazi party members

  • o Germany & Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact

  • o Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France

  • o German air force (Luftwaffe) bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain

  • o Germany invades Poland - blitzkrieg

    Germany invaded Poland using blitzkrieg 1941
    Poland entirely lost to the invaders
    This gave Germany more enemies and more space.

  • o Lend-Lease Act

    This was a way for America to help the war effort without having to enter battle without starting any anger towards them or needing to fight at all.

  • o Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • o Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bombed Hawaiian Pearl Harbor, home to many American military soldiers and their equipment.
    Happened on Sunday December 7th, 1941.

  • o D-Day

    The day the Americans invaded of the western sea border of Europe.
    The Americans took the fight to Hitler in Western Europe.

  • o Battle of the Bulge

    Massive battle between Russian soldiers and American soldiers, and German soldiers.
    Began on December 16th, 1944.
    Ended on January 25th, 1945.

  • o Formation of the United Nations

  • o Potsdam Conference

  • o Nuremberg trials

  • o Marshall Plan

    Congress approved Secretary of State George Marshall’s plan to help boost European economies.
    The U.S. gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe get back on their feet.