WWII Timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The treaty of Versailles was signed for peace and justice between Germany and its allies at the Palace of Versailles in Paris.
  • Hitler elected in Germany

    Hitler elected in Germany
    He was elected in Germany and attained power in March of 1933 after Reichstag adopted the enabling act of 1933
  • Establishment of Dachau camp

    Establishment of Dachau camp
    Between 1933 and 1945, concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the Nazi regime. The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau during these years exceeded 188,000. The number of prisoners who died in the camp and its subcamps between January 1940 and May 1945 was at least 28,000, to which must be added more who died there between 1933 and the end of 1939, as well as an undetermined number of unregistered prisoners.
  • Book Burning

    Book Burning
    As part of an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas (Gleichschaltung), university students in college towns across Germany burned thousands of books they considered to be “un-German,” heralding an era of state censorship and cultural control. Students threw books pillaged mostly from public and university libraries onto bonfires with great ceremony, band-playing, and so-called “fire oaths.”
  • Tripartite act signed

    Tripartite act signed
    This created a defense alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • Hitlers Olympics

    Hitlers Olympics
    Olympiade) and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
  • German invasion of Poland

    German invasion of Poland
    The invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • Pearl Harbor Bombing

    Pearl Harbor Bombing
    Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan and was a very sad and deadly bombing to Hawaii.
  • Japanese Americans sent to internment camps

    Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
    The Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps
  • Nazi's establish gas chambers at Auschwitz

    Nazi's establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
    The Nazis build gas chambers as an advanced killing method for Jewish people in the spring of 1942
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan.
  • The Axis Powers Surrender

    The Axis Powers Surrender
    Germany surrenders on May 7, 1945, Japan surrenders on September 2, 1945, and Italy surrenders on September 8, 1943.
  • Atomic bombs dropped in Japan

    Atomic bombs dropped in Japan
    Little boy and big boy were dropped on innocent civilians as a sign for Japan to surrender, and many people died from all of the bomb explosions.