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Word War II Timeline

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    Invasion of Manchuria

    The Japanese invaded Manchuria, China and Japan were in it together and the Japanese made up a story china and japan did not attack eachother becaus ethey knew what they were up to, The Japanese Empire gained control over the land that they invaded. Japanese knew the impact they had because many other empires like the Soviet union wanted land in the Asian part of the world
  • Rape of Nanjing

    Japanese troops did horrible things to the people in Nanjing a republic in China during the war this was an episode of mass murder where the Japanese did unspeakable things to human beings. The forgotten holocaust. 300,000 or more chinese civilians where murdered during the Nanjing massacre.Japanses troops didnt care about the damage that they did and the people they murdered, during the massacre the japanese soldiers took pictures with the victims as a way of achievemnt
  • Anschluss

    This is for the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany wanted to gain control of Austria because thats were major German speaking people and Hitler was from there originally but he considered himself a German. This was a political union between Germany and Austria. Hitler felt strong enough to create an annexation with Austria, This act was also forbidden by the Versailles treaty something Hitler wanted to violate because it was a target toward Germans
  • Munich Pact

    This pact allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland.This agreement also was made to avoid the breakout of war by basically allowing Hitler and his Nazi party to do anything he wishes by taking land. The Munich pact was signed by the Bristsh and French prime ministers and Hitler. This gave Hitler more power because he was open to do anything towards another country
  • Kistallnacht

    "Night of broken glass" the Nazi troops targeted jews not only in the holocaust but before it on the night of broken glass the SA troops vandalized jewish homes, schools and bussinesses and killed close to 100 jews during that night men where sent to Nazi concentration camps made Hitler more powerful because no one was really stopping him from doing anything and if they did the people knew that jewish or not they would still be sent to concentration camps for not agreeing with Hitler
  • Non-Agression Pact

    the non agression pact was one signed by Hitler and Stalin this agreement states that they both agreed not to attack eachother. the non agression pact was to Germany and the Soviet union. After hitler had everything he wanted he attacked the Soviet union and forgot about the non agression pact he backstabebd the USSR and invaded them..
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    Invasion of Poland

    Nazi Germany had troops over to Poland and terrorized the civilians because the troop where big and scary and were sent by Hitler and at the time in Poland Jews most resided in Poland, They knew what Hitler felt towards the Jewish race. The USSR invaded eastern poland but the Nazi Forces and Poland forces founght, poland surrendered leaving Germnay with a win, after they surrendered Nazi Germany and theSoviet Union divide poland into parts because of the non agression pact still intact
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    Evacuation Of Dunkirk

    This was the evacuation of allied soldiers they evacuated to france during WW2, Dunkirk was a battle in WW2 and this war took place on the western front, the Allied soldiers had to evacuate to france because of how thw war was settling down, After Germnay took over poland British sent troops to defend France from Nazi occupied Germany
  • Tri-Partite Agreement

    This agreement was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on this day those three nation become known as teh Axis powers, this pact was made by the three nations and they each provided assictence to eachother in any situation that it is needed each nation had something "guranteed" to Japan it was granted power over the Asia places that Japan wanted
  • Lend Lease Act

    Providing U.S military aid to foreign nations during WW2 this act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials if needed during battle. This act alsomst caused the U.S to get involved into the war. President Roosevelt signed this act if anything were to happen.The lend lease act deleted any symbol of neutrality
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    Operation Barbarossa

    This operation was made by Hitelr, Germany's invasion of the soviet union. This was not a great thing to do on behalf of Germnay because they signed a Non agression pact with the Soviet Union agree not to harm eachother but hitler ignored the pact. Operation Barbarossa forces the NAzis to fight a two-front war against the soviet union.
  • Pearl Harbor

    This was a surprise attack made by the Japanese toward America as revenge for America attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. President Roosevelt wanted to expand the pacific, this was threat to Japan because they wnated to expand the pacific as well and they took this as a threat and bombed the U.S
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    Battle of Midway

    The battle of misway was fought between Japan and America, America took down aircraft carried from Japan's side, was named after midway island, Japan choose it because of its impotance it had to America, Japan lost all of its aircraft carriers which led to the battle of midway more favorable to the Americans than to the Japanese, The Japanese lost more men that Americans did during this battle.
  • D-Day Invasion

    D-day is the day that an operation is to be initiated in this case during the battle of normandy. The western allied forces casused a new two front war. D-Day was an international effort of countries supporting other countries. D-day was on of the largest operations in Naval, Sir and Land battle. Germany tries to save Normandy by building a wall but its doesnt help the Germans any bit
  • Liberation Of Paris

    The Liberation for Paris was a battle fought during WWII to get the freedom of Belgium and France, the German Army surrendered letting France gte their Freedom. Choltitz was the Commander of the military of Germany and therefore surrendedered opposing Hitler's rules not to because he wanted the land. Choltitz claimed himself the saviour of France for letting the battle end.
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    Battle of Bulge

    The objective of this war was to split the allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkreig. During thsi battle it was said to be Hitlers last attempt to split the allied forces and destroy the ability to supply themselves. The battle of bulge was given to it because the germans created a "bulge" around the area of ardennes and was the largest battle fougnt on the western front
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Before Hitler took his own life he went on with the day doing his usual everyday tasks at firt he met with some people but he wasnt the sam ehe was not the same furious hitler he was quite. Hitltler's wife and Minister Joseph Goebbels, knew about Hitlers plans after Hitlers death the Minister Joseph and Hitler's wife asked to get shot in the back of fthe head by an SS man and ther bodies were later burnt in the Chancellary Garden Hitler's Suicide.
  • Surrender Of Germany

    Germany surrendered to the allies and ended the conflict with Europe, I guessit was to much for Gemany to to handle and they didnt want any two front wars and they decided to surrender for thsi case of Germnay surrndering hitler committed suicide becuase he had too much on his shoulders and he decided to end it
  • Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    The United states set two bombs over the ladsof Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the outer banks of japan there was military bases set up to kind of look over and spy on the japanese. The bomb that was dropped on hiroshima was enough already to wipeout the civilians who lived there and now we have atomic bombs twice as strongas the bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima and Nakasaki