Ricky Rivera World War II Timeline

By RickyRivera

  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    Germany wanted to annex Sudetenland because one of Hitler's major policy goals was to unite all German-majority areas with Nazi Germany. Article
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    A surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.Feb 11, 2025 Article
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  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Filipino, and Australian campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II. Article
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  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    During World War II, Japanese Americans were imprisoned in internment camps, also known as "relocation centers". The camps were harsh and dehumanizing, and residents faced racism and suspicion from the government. Article
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    A naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. In June 1942, US and Japanese naval forces engaged in a five-day battle in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that changed the course of the war in the Pacific. Ocean and was a turning point in World War II. Article
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    A major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad. Article
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    A series of land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific during the Pacific Theater of World War II. It was codenamed Operation Watchtower by the United States. Article
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  • Island-hopping

    Island-hopping
    A military strategy used by the Allied forces in the Pacific theater, where they strategically captured key islands while bypassing heavily defended ones, gradually moving closer to Japan by establishing air and naval bases on the islands they did take, allowing them to conserve resources and minimize casualties while advancing towards the Japanese mainland. Article
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    AKA Operation Overlord. It brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. Article
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan’s surrender. Article
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    Battle of Berlin, one of the final battles of World War II. It took place from April 20 to May 2, 1945, and it ended with the fall of Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941. Article
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Article
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    Led by scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the staff at this secret Manhattan Project location called Los Alamos was responsible for the development and testing of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in August, 1945. Article
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    The Big Three: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. Article
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    The plane dropped the atomic bomb, known as “Little Boy” by a parachute at 8:15 in the morning, and it exploded 2,000 feet above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12-15,000 tons of TNT, destroying 5 square miles of the city. The bomb was dropped by U.S. Army Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr. It weighed 9,000 pounds and had a diameter of only 28 inches. Article
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