Ww2

WWII Timeline

  • Neutrality Act

    Neutrality Act

    Reflected hope for peace by prohibiting sale of arms.
  • Germany attacks Poland

    Germany attacks Poland

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic

  • Cash-and-Carry law

    Cash-and-Carry law

    Eases the sale of arms to countries at war.
  • Battle of Britain begins

    Battle of Britain begins

  • Battle of Britain ends

    Battle of Britain ends

  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Allowed the US to send weapons to Britain regardless of ability to pay.
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter

    Roosevelt and Churchill meet secretly to share goals.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack the naval base of Pearl Harbor.
  • Interment Camps begin

    Interment Camps begin

    Japanese-Americans were relocated to isolated western areas in the US and held for entre duratio of the war in fear of spies.
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid

    American bombers attacked Tokyo.
  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Battle of Coral Sea

    Japan's attemtped invasion of New Guinea.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    2 prong attack. Japan was defeated by the Allies.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Deadliest Battle
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    Marched 65 miles. Largest US surrender.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Largest naval engagment in the Pacific.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Germans suprise attack the US
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet to discuss plans for postwar peace.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    Allied victory.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa

    Bloodiest battle in the Pacific.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    Official surrender of the German to the Allies.
  • Potsdam Confrence

    Potsdam Confrence

    Meeting Between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin after war to continue the plans started the the Yalta Confrence.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    1st atomic bomb dropped.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    2nd atmoic bomb dropped.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    Official surrender of Japan.
  • Nuremberg Trials Begin

    Nuremberg Trials Begin

    The start of Nazis being tried for war crimes.