World war 2 timeline

  • Japanese invasion on China

    Japanese invasion on China
    Japan invaded China and were badly beating them. With the help from the allies China was able to get Japan to surrender.
  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking
    After Japanese troops invaded China in the city of Nanking. A mass murder and rape of tons of Chinese occurred. Which is know as the rape of Nanking
  • Germany's invasion of Poland

    Germany's invasion of Poland
    1.5 million German troops attacked the borders of Poland. Hitter claimed the attacks was defensive. Shortly after France and Britain declare war on Germany
  • German blitzkrieg

    German blitzkrieg
    Germany thought they would have the best chance of winning if the blitzkrieg Poland buy doing short powerful attacks with heavy fire power Also using their surprise and speed
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Code name for Germany's invasion on Soviet Union It was also a mark for the huge escalation of the war
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan sent troop to bomb sniping in Hawaii the killed tons of people and destroyed 4 battle ships and hundreds of plains
  • D-day

    D-day
    invasion on the beaches in Normandy Germans new weapons made it hard for Americans to get to where they had to go U.S. Finally did take over the beach
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    was an American attack in which anericans attacked and took the island Iwo jima. during this time U.S. troop were trying to capture island around this area in order to have more outlets in the pacific.
  • VE day

    VE day
    is also known as Victory in Europe Day on this day it was when allied forces offically rocgonized germanys unconditonal surrender.
  • dropping the atomic bombs

    dropping the atomic bombs
    the united states dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the first bomb was dropped on august 6 and the second one was dropped on august 9 dropping these bombs lead to the unconditional surrender of japan
  • VJ day

    VJ day
    this is also known as victory over japan day. on this day japan surrendered and offically ended world war two
  • Battle of Bulge

    Battle of Bulge
    was a huge attack from the germans it suprised the allied forces we had a high amount of casualties. for americans 610000 men were involved and 89000were casualtites