WWII Timeline

By SnazzySeance

  • Anschluss of Austria

    Union of Austria to Germany orchestrated by Hitler

  • Munich Conference

    British and French convinced the Czechs to give up Sudentenland to appease Hitler

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    An agreement between Hitler and Stalin to keep peace between each country

  • Hitler Launches Blitzkrieg on Norway and Belgium

    Hitler orders a "lightning war" or constant bombing on Norway and Belgium

  • Operation Sea Lion and Blitz on London

    Hitler invades Britain

  • Hitler Enacts Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler Breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Soviet Union to take over their vast natural resources

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    A surprise attack on American soil that killed 2,400 people and the reason American entered WWII

  • Japan Loses the Battle of the Coral Sea (island hopping campaign)

    A goal of the US to defeat the Japanese one island at a time and allowed them to move north

  • The "Big 3" Meet

    FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet and decided to first fight the war in Europe and then in the Pacific (Japanese)

  • D-Day Assault

    US invades France to defeat the Germans

  • Hitler Dies

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe!

  • First Test of the Manhattan Project/Truman Warns Japan to Surrender

    A code name for the A-bomb. Truman warned Japan that they should surrender because of the WMD that the US had

  • US Drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Japan refuses to surrender twice and the US drops the A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Truman Doctrine Adopted

    A doctrine named after president Truman to contain communism

  • Marshall Plan Enacted

    To beat communism and strengthen democracy, the US offered money or aid packages to help countries rebuild

  • NATO Signed

    Countries pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked

  • Warsaw Pact

    The Soviets responded to NATO and formed their own military alliances