WWII timeline

  • Japanese invasion of China

    Japanese invasion of China

    here is the linkan attack on china by japan
  • rape of nanking

    rape of nanking

    href='http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm' >here is the link</a>In december of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city.
  • Germany's invasion of Poland

    Germany's invasion of Poland

    here is the linkOne of HItlers first major foreign policy initives after coming to power, was to sign a nonaggresional pact with poland.
  • German Bitzkeig

    German Bitzkeig

    heres the linkalso known as the lightining war. Blitzkeig is a military tatic that disorganizes the enemy through the use of mobile force and locally concentrated firepower.
  • Fall of Paris

    Fall of Paris

    click hereGermany invaded and captured Paris, France.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    click hereOperation Barbarossa was a massive invasion of the Soviet Union launched by Nazi Germany to prevent fighting a two front war.V
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    here is the linkthis is the event that brought america in to ww2, japan bombs pearl harbor.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    click hereAfter the fall of the Bataan Penninsula in the Philippines 75,000 American and filipino troops were forced by Japanese soldiers to make the arduous 65 mile march to the P.O.W. camps.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    here is the linkSix months afterthe attack on Pearl Harbor, the USA defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII
  • Warsaw Ghetto

    Warsaw Ghetto

    here is the linkhe city of Warsaw, capital of Poland, flanks both banks of the Vistula River. A city of 1.3 million inhabitants, Warsaw was the capital of the resurrected Polish state in 1919. Before World War II, the city was a major center of Jewish life and culture in Poland.
  • allied invasion of italy

    allied invasion of italy

    click hereThe British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8.
  • tehran conferance

    tehran conferance

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    The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Tehran Conference.
  • D day

    D day

    here is the linkDuring WWII (1939-1945),the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    click hereThe Battle of the Bulge was Nazi Germany's attempt at deviding the Allies' forces North from South.
  • Liberation of concentration camps

    Liberation of concentration camps

    here is the linkconcentration camps were used to torture people. to push their bodies to the breaking point.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    here is the link was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    click hereVE Day stands for victory in Europe day. On this day in Europe evryone celebrates the fall of the Nazi Third Riech.
  • potsdam conference

    potsdam conference

    here is the linkThe Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered
  • dropping of atomic bombs

    dropping of atomic bombs

    atomic bombThe United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weapon during wartime when its drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    here is the linkVJ Day stands for victory over Japan Day. On this day everyone in America celebrated victory over Japan.