WWII Timeline

  • The Battle of Okinawa

    The Battle of Okinawa

    a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

    a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
  • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941
  • The Battle of Midway

    a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. Wikipedia
  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad was 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 in southern Russia.
  • Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program

    Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program

    a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II.
  • The Battle of Kursk

    a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory.
  • D-Day

    the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.
  • Battle of the Buldge

    was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945
  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Battle of 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.
  • Death of FDR

    Death of FDR

    the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, as well as the only one to have served more than two terms.
  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler

    Hitler died to a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
  • Bombing or Hiroshima

    Bombing or Hiroshima

    United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Bombing of Nagasaki

    United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.