WWII Timeline

By naryahm
  • Treaty of Versailles

    This agreement signed after WWI placed an inordinate amount of financial burden upon Germany. It was developed out of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
  • Washington Naval Conference

    This conference between major national powers was organized for disarmament and led to uneven proportions amongst the leading Naval powers of Britain, the US, and Japan.
  • Kellogg–Briand Pact

    62 nations signed this agreement.
  • Japan created puppet states in China

    One of the axis powers set up a puppet state.
  • Adolf Hitler became chancellor

    The appointment of a leader, the beginning of a cultural revolution in Germany.
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    New Deal

    A series of foreign policy decisions signed into law by FDR.● 1936 - this event in the US was like a referendum on the New Deal. What followed was the Roosevelt Recession in 1937.
  • Italy inaved Ethiopa

    In this year one of the emerging Axis powers invaded a sovereign state in Africa.
  • Election of 1936

    this event in the US was like a referendum on the New Deal. What followed was the Roosevelt Recession in 1937.
  • Japan invades China

    One of the Axis powers declares war on a major country in Asia.
  • Annexation of Austria (Anschluss)

    This event marked the advancement of violence and oppression against people in specific religious, and social categories in Germany.
  • Munich Agreement

    Conference in South Germany in which delegates of France, Britain, Germany, and Italy permitted territorial expansion.
  • Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland

    This event meant the outbreak of total war in Europe.
  • The Battle Of Britain won

    Britain is victorious in the air. The London air raids begin.
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    Battle of France

    This event led to the surrender of a major western power.
  • Fireside Chat 15: On National Defense

    FDR addressed the nation.
  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union

    This German offensive marked the opening of the Eastern front in Europe
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    planned a mass march on Washington to protest Black soldier's exclusion from World War II defense jobs and New Deal programs.

    A. Philip Randolph commenced these Civil Rights protests.
  • Lend-Lease Legislation

    Signed by FDR, for the benefit of Britain
  • Atlantic Charter

    A joint declaration of the US and Britain.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    This surprise attack marked official US entry into the war.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Edict limiting the freedom of citizens on the basis of ethnicity.
  • Centrifugal Offensive

    This month marked the end of what major Japanese Army offensive
  • Battle of Midway

    This massive naval battle was a definitive turning point in the Pacific war.
  • Bracero Program

    A migration of laborers into the US.
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    Battle of Guadalcanal

    This battle commenced US “island hopping”.
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    Operation Vulcan marked the closing of this major geographical theater of combat.
  • Plan for new computer called ENIAC

    A team of engineers at the University of Pennsylvania began working to build a computing device.
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    Allied invasion of Sicily

    The invasion of this Mediterranean island marked the opening of a new major offensive in Europe.
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    "United States Navy defeated Japan's navy at the battle of Leyte Gulf, on the eastern side of the Philippines, just north of Mindanao – the Japanese losing twenty-four major ships, including four aircraft carriers, three battleships and ten cruisers."
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    Invasion of Normandy

    "Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II; the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place"
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    Battle of Bulge

    Germany’s last major offensive.
  • Admiral Chester Nimitz reflected on the incredible sacrifice of the Marines

    “Uncommon Valor was a common virtue” - Adm. Chester Nimitz
  • Met near Yalta

    Here, the Allied representatives discussed the post war world, and the partitioning of Germany. (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Stalin)
  • Events leading to Japan's surrender

    Atomic bombing and "Special Declaration"
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    Battle Of Okiwana

    "The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army."
  • President Roosevelt Dies

    The free world mourned the loss of a major leader.
  • Germany Surrender

    "Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims On May 7, 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northeastern France."
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    Potsdam Conference

    "a meeting held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 among US, Soviet, and British leaders that established principles for the Allied occupation of Germany following the end of World War II."
  • Japan surrenders

    "announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, "