World War II events

  • Italy seizes Ethiopia

    A border incident between Ethiopia Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene.
  • Munich Pact

    It was an agreement that averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest
  • Kristallnacht

    Everyone in German ruled land attacked and destroyed the homes of Jewish people, the government also they were sent to camps
  • Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovakia

    A nation that sacrificed on the alter of the Munich pact, Hitler wanted to invade and occupy the nation.
  • Hitler attacks poland

    Hitler wanted to regain lost territory and rule Poland so he attacked and took it over, World War II has begun
  • "Miracle" at Dunkirk

    The evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches and harbors of Dunkirk, France, between May 26th and June 4th 1940
  • Battle of Britain

    Germany bombed and raided Britain
  • Japan attacks pearl harbor

    Japan launched a surprise attack and bombed most of the american ships and killed a lot of people
  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    It was a major battle of WWII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalinguard in Southern Russia.
  • The Battle of El Alamein

    Marked the culmination of the North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army commanded in the field by Erwin Rommel
  • D-day

    The allies invade western Europe in the largest water attack in history.
  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany signed an unconditional surrenders in Reims, France.
  • U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    The U.S. flew over the city of Hiroshima and all the people thought they were scouting planes, they weren't and the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
  • U.S. drops a bomb on Nagasaki

    Right after the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima they went to Nagasaki and the same thing happened, they thought it was a scouting plane but it dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
  • Japan Surrenders

    Since the Japanese navy was incapable of conducting major operations and they surrendered