War II Timeline

By joemoe12

  • Battle of Britain

  • Japan joins Axis

  • Hitler breaks Non-Aggression pact

  • U-boats sink merchant vessels

  • FDR approves “shoot on sight”

  • Pearl Harbor attacked

  • Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washington, DC

  • Germany and Italy declare war on US

  • MacArthur promises to return

  • Bataan death march

  • Battle of Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

    Japan was stopped here before they could attack Hawaii.

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

  • General Eisenhower and his forces land in North Africa

    They were there because France was heavily secured, oil, and the major water way to asia the suezcanel.

  • Vichy France begins

  • End of Battle of Stalingrad

  • Sicily falls

  • Rome falls

  • D-Day

  • MacArthur returns

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • Kamikaze attacks begin

  • US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi

  • Truman becomes president

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • V-E Day

  • Okinawa taken

  • Hiroshima

  • Nagasaki

  • V- J Day

  • formal surrender of Japan