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WWII Timeline

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  • Japan makes a move

    Japan makes a move

    Japan invades Manchuria for it's natural rescources after seeing what Germany had done and not gotten in trouble.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Japan leaves the League of nations.
  • Neutrality Acts

    Neutrality Acts

    The U.S wants to stay out of the wars after seeing what happened in World War I by creating Acts to stay Neutral.
  • Germany on the move

    Germany on the move

    Hitler goes into the Rhineland which is a buffer zone that they were not suppossed to go into with the Treaty of Versaises.
  • The Rhineland

    The Rhineland

    Germany invades the Rhineland or buffer zone
  • Neutrality Act

    Neutrality Act

    The U.S wants to stay out of the wars after seeing what happened in World War I by creating Acts to stay Neutral.
  • Neutrality Act

    Neutrality Act

    The U.S wants to stay out of the wars after seeing what happened in World War I by creating Acts to stay Neutral.
  • Quarantine Speech

    Quarantine Speech

  • Anschluss or war!

    Anschluss or war!

    Hitler declares Anschluss or the gathering of all the German speaking people.
  • Navy get renovated

    Navy get renovated

    U.S. congress Passes the Naval Expansion Act to use 1 billion dollars to enlarge the U.S. Navy.
  • Nonaggression Pact

    Nonaggression Pact

    Germany and USSR sign to not attack each other
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

    Germany invades Poland with the Blitzkrieg.
  • Hitler defeats France

    Hitler defeats France

    British forces retreat from france as the Germans take control of France.
  • First peacetime draft

    First peacetime draft

    Congress starts gathering troops for training.
  • Lend Lease

    Lend Lease

    The U.S. would give guns to the British even if they could not pay us back right away.
  • Germany invades the Soviets

    Germany invades the Soviets

    Germans viuolet the Nonaggression pact and attack the soviets.
  • Japans bombs the U.S.

    Japans bombs the U.S.

    Pearl Harbor gets bombed!!
  • U.S. joins the War.

    U.S. joins the War.

    U.S. declares war on Germany, Japan, and Italy.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    The U.S. taking over major islands in the Pacific against the Japanese. Thus being able to break the Japanese code.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The opening of a second front in France to help win the war against Germany.
  • Operation overlord

    Operation overlord

    Invasion of France to open a second front also known as D-Day.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The Allied powers come together for a meeting on how to break up Germany after the war.
  • V-E day

    V-E day

    German Government surrendered unconditionally.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    One lonely American bomber dropped the atomic bomb on this city killing 180,000 people.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    Second atomic bomb killing 80,000 people.
  • Japan surrenders

    Japan surrenders

    Japan's leaders meet on a ship to formally sign the surrender document.