WWII Timeline

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    This is the begining of WWII. It starts off by Germans begin a Blitzkrieg against Poland.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese had killed 2,403 Americans and wounded 1,178 more, sunk or damaged 21 ships, including 8 battleships, 300 or more aircrafts were severely damaged or destroyed.
  • Churchill Arrives at the White House

    Churchill Arrives at the White House
    Churchill arrives at the White House to help make war plans with Roosevelt .
  • Battle of Bataan Death March

    Battle of Bataan Death March
    Largest US surrender
  • Ballt of the Coral Sea

    Ballt of the Coral Sea
    The battle happened on the Philippines, Japan won, and Douglas MacArthur promised to return
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal
    First offensive battle for the US. The beginging of the battle
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    End of the battle of Stalingrad
  • Begining of Stalingrad

    Begining of Stalingrad
    This was the beginnging of the battle of Stalingrad.
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal
    End of the Battle of Guadalcanal
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Rurning point in the war. Broke the Japanese Code. From then on we are on the offensive side of the war.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The first day of the invasion. There where thousands upon thousands of seaborne soldiers.
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf
    We learn Japans new defence of attack, The Kamikaze Attack.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    Volcanic Island-750 Miles south of Tokyo. Flag raising on top of Mount Suribachi. US won this battle.
  • Firestorm Raid of Tokyo

    Firestorm Raid of Tokyo
    Bomb Tokyo with B-29 bombers. Killed nearly 84,000 people.
  • Battle of Okinaawa

    Largest and Bloodiest battle in the Pacific becuase the U.S. is getting closer and closer to the home-island of Japan.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day
    Germany Surenders. The war with Germany ends
  • First Atomic Bomb Test

    First Atomic Bomb Test
    The first test for the attomic Bomb was done on this day.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    The first atomic bomb was dropped.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki
    The final atomic bomb drop in Japan
  • J-V Day

    J-V Day
    Japan Surrenders. The war is over in Japan and Germany at this point. END OF THE WAR!!!