WWII Timeline

By Katelynn Leibold

  • Hitler takes control over the German government

    Hitler is named chancellor of Gerrmany and taks control of the government

  • Japanese invasion of China

  • German invasion of Poland

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    WWII

  • France and Britan declare war on Germany

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii killing more than 2,300 Americans without declaration of war

  • America declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Fascist Italy declare war on America

  • Bataan Death March begins

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    Battle of Midway

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad

  • D-Day Starts

  • Battle of the Bulge Starts

  • Germany surrenders at allied headquarters in France, ending WWII

  • Atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders