WWII Timeline

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria to collect natural resources
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler assumes position of Chancellor and sole ruler of Germany,
  • Reichstag Fire

    Reichstag Fire

    People of Hitler's Nazi party set fire to the Reichstag building to gain control of the seats that opposed Hitler
  • Germany leaves League Of Nations

    Germany leaves League Of Nations

    Germany leaves League of Nations to gain control of other European countires
  • Italy Invades Ethiopia

    Italy Invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia to start control of countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    Countries meet such as Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy to decide on what to do with the Czechoslovakia
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues were damaged
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germany signs the Nonaggression Act with The Soviet Union which allowed Germany to advance into Poland without having to worry about fighting on two fronts
  • Soviet Union Invades Poland

    Soviet Union Invades Poland

    Soviets invade Poland from the Eastern front while Germany invades from the West
  • Germany Invades

    Germany Invades

    Germany Invades countries such as Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, France
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan sends Kamikaze fighter planes to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Bomb the naval base ultimately getting America into WW2
  • Benito Mussolini falls from power

    Benito Mussolini falls from power

    Benito Mussolini is overthrown from ruler of Leader and thrown in jail
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    American troops land on the Beaches of Normandy and begin the attack on the German Front
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Most decisve naval engaement of the the Pacific and it is also known as the largest naval battle of WW2
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    It was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Fron
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    This was a metting beyween Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, to discuss what would happen to the nations that were torn up during the War
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

    It was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa

    It was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest ground assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
  • Benito Mussolini executed

    Benito Mussolini executed

    Benito is killed by Italian rebels along with his wife
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker under Berlin
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    Marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Meeting of Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to decide what would happen to Germany after its' surrender
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    The United States drop the first bomb on Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    The United States drop a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders

    By the surrender of Japan on Septermber 2nd, 1945 it hinted on the hostilities of WW2 coming to a close .