WWII Timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Signed at the end of World War 1 and was a peace treaty. Later was a min cause of WWII.
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    Locarno Treaties

    Seven Agreements signed on December 1, 1925 in Locarno, Switzerland. This makes Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and italy peace with Western Europe.
  • Kellogg Braind Pact

    This was a pact signed between Germany, France, and the United States and many other countries later. This guranteed that no war would solve any conflicts. The pact was broken in 1936
  • Geneva Convention

    The Geneva Convention was on July 27, 1929 and was a treaty of treatment of civilians, Prisoners of War, and soldiers who can't fight.
  • Soviet non-aggresion pact

    Soviet pact was broken in 1941 when Germany attack the soviet union.
  • Segregation of the armed forces

    In 1940 there was the first African American Brigadier General for the Army. This ended the segregation of african americans
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    Consecientious objector

    This is when Americans refused to join war because of religious reasons.
  • Japanese Internment

    The Americans relocated Japanese Americans to internment camps following the Pearl Harbor attack
  • Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander

    Eisenhower showed his skilled battle tactics on the Battle field and was then Supreme Allied Commander.
  • Operation Torch

    British-American invasion of French North Africa.
  • Italy Surrender

    Italy surrenders to the allied powers because the allied powers and American took over to much of Italy.
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    Dumbarton Oaks Conference

    This was a conference that later made the League of Nations which was a post war internation organization.
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    Nuremberg Trials

    This was a trial of the Nazi military leaders and officers to bring them to justice.
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    Post War Occupation of Japan

    U.S. helped japan with Military, political and economic stabilization.
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    Potsdam Conference

    The goal of the conference was how to punish the Nazi Germans and help create peace treaties and countering the effects of war.
  • Marshall Plan

    This was a plan by the U.S. to give money to Europe and Asia to help rebuild there countries following the war.