WWII Timeline

  • Invasion of Manchuria

    Invasion of Manchuria
    The invasion of Manchuria was when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. By February 1932, the Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria. In 1933, Japan invaded China.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler becomes Chancellor
    Hitler got put into power in Germany in 1933. He got appointed after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month, giving expanded authority.
  • Invasion of Ethiopia

    Invasion of Ethiopia
    Ethiopia was invaded on Oct. 3, 1935 by Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini. Poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps were all employed.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    The Munich conference was an agreement signed by Germany, French, U.K, Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. They agreed to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    The Munich Agreement by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. They agreed to annex certain areas in Czechoslovakia.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    The Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. Violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • Non-aggression pact

    Non-aggression pact
    The non-aggression pact on WWII was two countries agreeing to take no military action against each other for the next ten years. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were the two countries to sign this pact
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939.
  • Invasion of France

    Invasion of France
    The invasion of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. The Battle of Dunkirk was fought in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor to send a message to the United States. This caused the U.S to declare war on Japan.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Stalingrad was a large industrial city producing armaments and tractors and was an important prize in itself for the invading German army.
  • Bataan Death March

    The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Concentration camps. The Bataan Death March happened after the US and Filipino troops surrendered their last position on Luzon in the Philippines.
  • Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. This did take place six months after the attack on pearl harbor.
  • Normandy Invasion(D-Day)

    Normandy Invasion(D-Day)
    The Normandy Invasion was when the Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they attacked German positions at Normandy, located on the northern coast of France. This invasion will be known around the world as D-Day.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle fought by the Americans in World War Two. 600,000 American troops were involved in the battle. The Americans lost 81,000 men while the Germans lost 100,000 killed, wounded and captured.
  • Iwo Jima Okinawa

    It is believed that Iwo Jima and Okinawa were of great importance to the victory in the Pacific War. They were said to be the areas in which they could use as landing strips for the atomic bombs that would later destroy the Japanese homeland.
  • Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. This as to discuss the postwar reorganization of countries.
  • V-E day

    V-E day
    Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or V-E Day, is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. This day is to celebrate finally being accepted and their surrender.
  • Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.
  • V-J Day

    V-J or Victory over Japan day was when Japan surrendered in WWII and ended the war. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.