WWII TImeline

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  • Testing The League of Nations

    Testing The League of Nations

    When the League of Nations pressured
    Japan to return Manchuria to China,
    Japan refused and withdrew from
    the League

  • Britain and france appease Hitler

    Britain and France made
    concessions to Hitler in order
    to avoid conflict
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    WWII Timeline

  • U.S. Neutrality

    U.S. Neutrality

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt
    refused, pointing out that he had
    just signed the Neutrality Act of 1935

  • Germany Reduces the Soviet Threat

    Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
    signed a nonaggression treaty in August 1939
  • The War Begins

    The War Begins

    Germany invades Poland

  • The Battle of Britain

    The fall of France left Britain to face Hitler
    alone

  • The US prepares for War

    After the fall of France and Britain,
    The US prepared for war
  • The US Enters the War

    The US Enters the War

    The Japanese army attacks Pearl Harbor
    and the US comes out fighting

  • Nazis Begin to Persecute the Jews

    Anti-Semitic abuse gains popularity
  • The Pacific War Begins

    The Pacific War Begins

    Japanese victories in the Pacific
    spurs the US military into action

  • Allies Debate War Strategies

    Churchill and Roosevelt discuss
    the extent of Hitler’s murderous plans

  • The Allies Stop Japanese Expansion

    -Battle at Midway: Americans intercepted a
    Japanese message telling of plans for a major offense

  • Allied Gains in North Africa & Italy, Middle East Campaigns

    In November 1942, Allied forces made
    sea landings in Morocco and Algeria.

  • Nazis Invade the Soviet Union & North Africa

    Nazis invade using Blitzkrieg attacks

  • The Allies Turn the Tide

    The Allied offensive began in August
    1942, when 11,000 U.S. Marines invaded
    Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands
    northeast of Australia.
  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad

    Hitler splits his troops in order to take
    Couscous and Stalingrad

  • Allied Gains in North Africa & Italy, Middle East Campaigns

    The remainder of Hitler’s army
    surrenders to the Soviet Red Army
  • Allied Bombing Campaigns

    Allied Bombing Campaigns

    Allies concentrate their focus on
    destroying all of Germany’s assets with
    the main goal being to hasten the end of
    the war

  • The Allies Liberate France

    the day that Allied forces
    invaded France to free it from Nazi rule
    and eventually defeat Germany in World
    War II
  • The Horror of the Holocaust

    The Horror of the Holocaust

    Allied forces invading Germany were
    shocked to see the remnants of crimes
    so reprehensible that no word existed to
    describe them.

  • The War in Europe Ends

    Hitler reportedly kills himself and
    German soldiers quickly begin
    surrendering

  • The Allies Push Toward Japan

    The Allied push through the Pacific
    steadily shrank the defensive perimeter
    the Japanese had established around
    Japan.

  • Developing the First Nuclear Weapon

    A top secret team harnessed and
    developed the first nuclear bomb that
    was ready for use in the war against
    Japan
  • The US Decides to Drop the Bomb

    The US Decides to Drop the Bomb

    President Henry Truman calls for an
    unconditional surrender from Japan. At that
    time, Japan did not know about the atomic
    weapons the US military had ready to fire

  • Two A-bombs End the War in the Pacific

    Japan refuse to surrender and the US drops two
    A-Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan
    surrender on August 6, 1945
  • The Cost of WWII

    The Cost of WWII

    The cost of human lives, around 60 million