WW2 Timeline

  • Treaty of versailles

    Treaty of versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One. The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations (to make amends), disarm (take weapons away) , lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies.
  • Hitler voted to power in Germany

    Hitler voted to power in Germany
    The people of German were asked to vote on whether or not they would approved the merging of the two offices also of Hitler's new role as Führer (ruthless leader). 95.7% of the German population voted. 89.93% voted in for Hitler.
  • "Hitler's Olympics" (1936 summer Olympics)

    "Hitler's Olympics" (1936 summer Olympics)
    The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games were a worldwide sporting event, they were a showing of Nazi propaganda, stirring significant conflict. Despite the exclusionary principles of the 1936 Games, countries around the world still agreed to participate. Hitler wanted to prove that he is higher and above and richer because he's holding an Olympic.(a black person won the whole thing)
  • German invasion of Poland

    German invasion of Poland
    Hitler had attacked Poland because he wanted Germans to live there. He considered the Polish people inferior and only fit as a work force. In the last three months of 1939, the Nazis murdered 65,000 Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany
  • Tripartite pact signed

    Tripartite pact signed
    Leaders of the Axis powers( originally called the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, it was a military coalition that was a small group in World War II and fought against the Allies), Japan, Italy and Germany, sign the Tripartite Pact, creating an alliance between the three countries.
  • Nazis establish gas chambers at Auschwitz

    Nazis establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
    The main camp was adapted for use as a gas chamber. Several hundred people at a time could be killed in this room.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    On the morning of 7 December 1941, 177 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States declared war on Japan. Germany and Italy then declared war on the U.S. Starting world war 2.
  • Japanese Americans sent to internment camps

    Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
    The United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western part of the country.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, 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. 2051 soldiers died. It was on Normandy Normandy, France.
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
  • Franklin Roosevelt's death

    Franklin Roosevelt's death
    After FDR died the new president became Harry S. Truman. FDR had polio and then his health decided leading him to death.
  • Axis powers surrender

    Axis powers surrender
    Soviet (government council) forces entered Berlin on April 1945, prompting Hitler to commit suicide. Germany surrendered to the Allies on May 8, 1945, ending the war in Europe. Japan surrendered in August 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marking the end of the Axis and the war itself.
  • Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan

    Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan
    The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians. This made them surrender.