Ww2

World War 2 major events timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The treaty that was signed at the end of WW1
  • Period: to

    WW2

  • League of nations created

    League of nations created
    It was a group to stop future wars from happening created by USA, even though they didn't join it.
  • Stock market crash

    Stock market crash
    It was caused by too many people selling their stocks for low prices, people not paying the debt
  • Japan seizes Manchuria

    Japan seizes Manchuria
    Japan detonated a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden. The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track and a train passed over it minutes later, but the Japanese Army accused Chinese dissidents of the act and responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria
  • Hitler invades Rhineland

    Hitler invades Rhineland
    Hitler wanted this area back since Germany had to give it away in the treaty
  • Annex of austria

    Annex of austria
    The austrians where more then welcome to hitler, they voted him in.
  • Munich Pact

    Munich Pact
    An agreement between Germany and Russia to not attack each other.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    was a series of coordinated deadly attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.
  • Battle of Ortona

    Battle of Ortona
    The Battle of Ortona was a small, yet extremely fierce battle fought between a battalion of German Fallschirmjäger (paratroops) and assaulting Canadian forces
  • Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovackia

    Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovackia
    Hitler wanted more teritory
  • St.louis incident

    St.louis incident
    When a boat full of Jews escaping keep having to go to port to port due to no one letting them land.
  • Nazi/Soviet non-aggression pact

    Nazi/Soviet non-aggression pact
    An agreement between soviet union and germany for no war
  • Hitler attacks Poland

    Hitler attacks Poland
    This was the battle that set off WW2, with Britain and France having to declare war on Germany due too them being alies
  • War Measures Act invoked in Canada

    War Measures Act invoked in Canada
    origanally the War Measures Act was a federal statute adopted by Parliament in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War. It gave broad powers to the Canadian government to maintain security and order during war, but it was used again at the start of WW2
  • Canada declares war on Germany

    Canada declares war on Germany
    This was the first time Canada got to chose to go to war.
  • Fall of Holland,Belgium and France

    Fall of Holland,Belgium and France
    They got tooken over by Nazi Germany
  • Miracle at Dunkirk

    Miracle at Dunkirk
    338,226 soldiers where rescued
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    When Hitlers Luftwaffe bombed Britain
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbour

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbour
    To weaken the US navy
  • Invasion of Hong Kong

    Invasion of Hong Kong
    Japan invades Hong Kong
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    It was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable
  • Dieppe raid

    Dieppe raid
    The Dieppe Raid was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe
  • Allied troops land in Sicily

    Allied troops land in Sicily
    To take it over
  • Canadian soldiers liberate Netherlands

    Canadian soldiers liberate Netherlands
    They were so happy to be saved that every year they send tulip bulbs to Canada.
  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders
    Also known as V-E day
  • D-day

    D-day
    Troops lanned on the beach of normany to take france and some of europe back
  • USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
    The first of the two atomic bombs with 166,000 deaths
  • Japan surrenders

    Japan surrenders
    Also known as V-J day