WWII Events

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    These was the invasion that kick started WWII.
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France
    Germany attacks France's 800,000 man army.
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland
    Stalin had great intrest in Finland and wanted to take it, and he did it earlier than he set to do it.
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
    He led Britain in the war, and refused to surrender to the Germans.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    Britain was attacked by the German airforce.
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans
    Hitler wanted more power and control amd saw that they were a weak army and so he took over.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    This gave aid to the military's in the war.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    This is when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Representatives from 26 nations went to Washington D.C. to sign the treaty.
  • Halocaust

    Halocaust
    The Nazi's are causeing a mass murder on the Jews.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps
    People that went to these camps eventually died of starvation.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
    There were two of these wars, the first one was fought in North Aftrica.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    This battle destroyed Japan's naval part of the military.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    The Soviet Union successfully defended the city of Stalingrad.
  • Guadalcanal

    This was a sea, air, land battle that lasted for 6 months with the Japanese.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
    This was a fail on Hitlers part on the Soviet Union.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference
    This is where the leaders that met decided their military stragies.
  • D-Day

    This was the most brutal battle of all time. This was in Normandy France along 50 mile stretch of beaches.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    This is when the allied poweres met and dicussed the future of the war.
  • F.D.R. Death

    F.D.R. Death
    He died in Warm Springs Georgia because of Pollio.
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination
    He was shot by a woman 5 times, him and his wife were killed.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide
    He and his wife were found dead in his bunker, Hitler was under a blanket and his wife was laying across him.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    This was the conference where the end of the war was dicussed.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    This is when the Nazi leaders were on trial for war crimes.
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan
    He wanted to rebuild the country and get it back on its feet.
  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
    USA bombed the Japan twice, on the 6th and the 9th.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    This was a war that was never fought.
  • supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

    supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
    supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    This was the plan to bring back 17 western economy's with USA's help.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    It was a wall seprating West and East Berlin.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Missiles built by the Soviet Union were put in Cuba pointed towards USA.