Index

WWII Timeline Project

  • World War One

    World War One

    World War One ends with Germany being defeated.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    The signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty the basically made Germany pay all war costs and told them do down size in military.
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Germany was addimited into the League of Nations
  • Stock Market

    Stock Market crash on Wall Street in the Untied States.
  • Manchuria

    Japan attacked Manchuria for natural resources.
  • Franklin Roosevelt

    Franklin Roosevelt is elected as President.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
  • Reichstag

    Reichstag

    The Nazis burn down the Reichstag building and blame it on the communists.
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Germany quits and leaves the League of Nations.
  • Murder of Austrian Chancellor

    Murder of Austrian Chancellor

    Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
  • Führer

    Führer

    Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
  • Ethiopia

    Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.
  • Rhineland

    Rhineland

    Germany Invades Rhineland
  • Spain

    Spain

    Civil War erupts in Spain.
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss

    Germany invades Austria to reunite themselves.
  • Sudentenland

    Sudentenland

    Germany invades Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia.
  • Kristallancht

    Kristallancht

    A "Night of Broken Glass" when Nazi destroyed many Jewish buildings.
  • Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia

    Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia.
  • Spain

    Spain

    The Civil War in Spain comes to an end.
  • Germany Invasion of Poland

    Germany Invasion of Poland

    Germany invades Poland to begin World War II.
  • Beginning of WWII

    Beginning of WWII

    France and Great Britian declare war on Germany just a few days after they invade Poland.
  • War on Germany

    War on Germany

    Great Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
  • Canada

    Canada

    Canada declares war on Germany.
  • Soviet Invades Poland

    Soviet Invades Poland

    Soviet troops invade Eastern Poland while the Nazis invades the other front. They divided up the land between each other.
  • Denmark and Norway

    Denmark and Norway

    Germany invades Denmark and Norway
  • France

    France

    Germany invades France as well as Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg.
  • Romania

    Romania

    Germany invades Romania.
  • Bulgaria

    Bulgaria

    The nazis take over Bulgaria.
  • Yugoslavia and Greece

    Yugoslavia and Greece

    The nazis invade Yugoslavia and Greece.
  • Russia

    Russia

    The Nazis invade Russia.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japanese planes attacked a Naval base in Hawaii killing over 2,300 people.
  • United States Enters

    United States Enters

    Germany declares war on the United States. Roosevelt then asks Congress for declaration of war on Germany and use 90 percent of their military and resources to defeat Hitler.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    This is the beginning of the attack by Germany on Stalingrad in Russia.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    First time that American troops enetered on European land during World War II. Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
  • Roosevelt Death

    Roosevelt Death

    This is the day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on his fourth term and Harry Truman, Vice President, became President.
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin Bunker.
  • VE-Day

    VE-Day

    This date marked the time when the the war ended between the allies and Germany. Declared the winners being the Euopean allies and Germany Nazis being the defeated.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Meeting of Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin after Germany's surrender in WWII; resulted in the division of Germany into four zones of occupation.
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Where the United States dropped the first and second atomic bombs on Japan to end the war.
  • Japan Surrender

    Japan Surrender

    The day that Japan surrenders to the European allies.