WWII Timeline

By Jell-O
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
  • Neutrality Act

    Neutrality Act

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act
  • World War II Starts

    World War II Starts

    Germany invades Poland
  • Draft in the U.S. 1940

    Draft in the U.S. 1940

  • Lend-Lease Program

    Lend-Lease Program

    Created to deliver arms to Great Britain to be paid for following the war's end.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion
    Ended on January 7, 1942
  • Seige of Leningrad

    Seige of Leningrad

    Ended at January 27, 1944
  • Bombing of Pearl Habor by Japanese

    Bombing of Pearl Habor by Japanese

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    *Battle on the Philippine Islands
    *Japanese won
    *Biggest U.S. Surrender
    *General Douglas MacArthur promised he would return and save them, but not until 2 years later.
  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    Battle of the Coral Sea

    *Major naval battle in the Pacific
    *Ended on May 8, 1942
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    *Another crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific
    *Ended on June 7, 1942
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch

    Ends on November 10, 1942
  • Invasion of Sicily

    Invasion of Sicily

    Ended on August 17, 1943
  • D-Day Invasion of Normandy

    D-Day Invasion of Normandy

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Ends on January 25, 1945
  • VE-Day

    VE-Day

    Germany Surrenders
  • U.S. bombs Hiroshima

    U.S. bombs Hiroshima

    United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which kills 75,000 people instantly, and injured more than 100,000.
  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Bombing of Nagasaki

    The second atomic bomb dropped.
  • VJ-Day

    VJ-Day

    The war is over!!!