WWII Timeline

  • Japanese successfully invade Manchuria

  • Hitler is appointed chanceller of Germany

    Hitler is appointed chanceller of Germany
  • FDR begins presidency of the US

  • President von Hindenburg dies and Hitler declars himself leader

  • US passes the Neuttality Acts

  • Nazi party institutes the Nuremberg Laws

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

  • Germany invades the Rhineland Area

  • FDR gets permission from Congress to expand Navy

  • Jesse Owens Wins 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Games

    Jesse Owens Wins 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Games
  • Germany Invades Austria

  • The Sudetenland is ceded to German

  • Kristallnaght occurs

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact is signed

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Battle of the Atlantic

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • USSR troops discover Aushwitz

  • germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany invades Belgium

  • Hitler takes over France and divides it into zones

    Hitler takes over France and divides it into zones
  • Germany Forces the French and Brittish troop to retreat to Dunkirk

  • Allied troops land in North Africa

  • Hitler begins bombing Britain nightly

  • Tripartite Pact is signed and the Axis pers are formed

  • FDR signed the Lend-Leas Act

  • FDR creates the Office of Scientific Research and Development

  • FDR and Winston Churchhull negotiate the Atlantic Charter

  • Tojo takes control of Japan

  • Japan attacks Paeal Harbor

    Japan attacks Paeal Harbor
  • FDR issues Executive Order 9066

  • US surrenders Bataan and Bataan Death March

  • Tokyo is bombed in the Doolittle Raid

    Tokyo is bombed in the Doolittle Raid
  • Battle of the Coral Sea

  • Axis troops surrender in USSR

  • Allies defete Japan in the Battle of the Midway

  • Allied troops storm Guadalcanal

  • Germany attacks the USSR at Satlingrad

  • Afrika Korps surrender to the Allies

  • Allies invade Sicily

  • D-Day

    D-Day
  • MacArthur returnes to Philippines

  • Batle of the Bulge

  • USSR Troops discover Alschwitz

    USSR Troops discover Alschwitz
  • Yalta Conference takes place

  • American Forces capture Iwo Jima

  • Allied troops invade Okinawa

  • FDR dies

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

  • V-E Day

  • Potsdam Confrence takes place

  • US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
  • US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders