WWII Timeline

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Nazi Germany's mass killing Jewish people.
  • Night of the long Knives

    Night of the long Knives

    Nation fearful of the SA had become too power.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy's air capacity
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

    It was called a Winter War of a conflict between USSR and Finland
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    France and Britain supports Belgium so the Germany attacks them through Ardennes.
  • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    Led an extraordinary life, but perhaps the most remarkable element in his life.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defended the U.K against the large scale attack by the Nazi Germany.
  • Hitler take over the Balkans

    Hitler take over the Balkans

    He first plans to invade the Soviet Union the move to take the Balkans
  • Lead-Lease Act

    Lead-Lease Act

    Providing U.S military aid to foreign nation during WWII
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    This code name is called operation Barbarossa
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    It's happened six-month after Japan bombed the Pearl Harbor
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    Codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    When the Germany were defeat in Soviet Union and then began to pushed out territory
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese secretly bombing on the Pearl Harbor in the U.S
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    A strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    This is known as Operation Overload
  • MacArthur's plan for Japan

    MacArthur's plan for Japan

    Disbanded Japanese armed forces and left with small police force
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The leaders of the US, Britain and the Soviet Union agree to divide Germany into zones of occupation
  • F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R's Death

    He died of cerebral hemorrhage
  • Hitler's suicide

    Hitler's suicide

    Killed himself with gunshot in Berlin
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    This Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam occupied Germany
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagashaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagashaki

    Lead to WWII end as soon as possible
  • Mussolini's Assassination

    Mussolini's Assassination

    The death of Mussolini, the woman's bullet wounds Mussolini at Rome
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    The U.N. is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    Germany was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945-1946
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    The power between Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The Soviet Union took control of the Eastern half of Germany
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    American initiative to aid Western Europe
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    This was built by the East Berlin police to stop people from escaping to the West
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Creation of nuclear hotline between the U.S. and the Soviet Union