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WWII EVENTS TIMELINE

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of other people .
  • Night Of Long Knives

    Night Of Long Knives
    Night of the Long Knives is the purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. hilter was scared that paramilitary had become too powerful,so he ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces. Adolf Hitler claimed the invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced so they declared war on Germany after this.
  • stalin attacks finland

    stalin attacks finland
    The Winter War began with a Soviet invasion of Finland three months after World War II, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty
  • Germany Attacks France

    Germany Attacks France
    The Battle of France was the German invasion of France and other Countries .German bombers hit air bases and destroyed large numbers of Allied planes on the ground and Allied air defenses.
  • how winston churchill becomes prime minister of britain

    how winston churchill becomes prime minister of britain
    The government was in disarray as Winston Churchill became Prime minister and, Germany ended the War by invading the Low Countries.
  • Battle Of Britain

    Battle Of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of World War II.the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against attacks by Germany's air force
  • Hitler takes over Balkans

    Hitler takes over Balkans
    After Italy failed in its mission in the Balkans, Hitler and his German war machine moved in to put Yugoslavia and Greece in their place.
  • Bombing Of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
    The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.
  • lend lease act

    lend lease act
    The lend-lease program provided military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
    blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and firepower. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War II.
  • battle of midway

    battle of midway
    The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II it happened six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Battle Of Guadalcanal

    Battle Of Guadalcanal
    The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. U.S. marines launched a surprise attack and took control of an air base under construction.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the relocation and incarceration in camps.110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them lived on the Pacific coast.
  • Battle Of El Almein

    Battle Of El Almein
    The Battle of El Alamein was fought between, Montgomery and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference
    The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. it was after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran.
  • D-DAY

    D-DAY
    D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or is to be initiated.. D-Day forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference was the second meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's surrender
  • F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R's Death
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a massive cerebral in Georgia at the age of 63. Roosevelt’s death was in the final months of World War II
  • Mussolinis Assasination

    Mussolinis Assasination
    he died in the final days of World War II in Europe. he was executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy
  • hitlers suicide

    hitlers suicide
    On this day holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
  • Postdam Conference

    Postdam Conference
    The Potsdam Conference. Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
  • Atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki
    During the final stage of World War II, the United States erupted two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States dropped the bombs after getting the consent of the United Kingdom
  • mcarthurs plan for japan

    mcarthurs plan for japan
    MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms. MacArthur took charge of the Supreme Command of Allied Powers and began the work of rebuilding Japan. MacArthur had the final authority to make all decisions.
  • Formation Of U.N

    Formation Of U.N
    the UN was a replacement for the League of Nations. the organization was established after World War II to prevent more conflict.
  • Nuremberg Trails

    Nuremberg Trails
    The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces
  • Cold war

    Cold war
    The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    A program which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    It was when western countries delivered food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the Soviet and the western democratic
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis is confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American missile deployment in Italy and Turkey.