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World War II Timeline
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1931 Japan Seizes the Manchuria
1937 Japan armies eastern China
1935 Italy and Ethiopia
Early 1936 Ethiopia
*January 1933 Hitler took over
power in Germany Almost
immediately he began steps to
escape the strict provisions of the
Treaty of Versailles in order to
rebuild Germany as a military power.
France and Great Britain waffled
uncertainly as Germany pulled out of
the League of Nations
6. *1934 German begins to rearm
7. 1936 Rhineland
8. 1935-1937 Neutrality Acts
9. 1938 Anschluss
10. September 1938 Munich Conference
11. March 1939 Czechoslovakia
12. *May 22, 1939, Germany and Italy
signed the so-called Pact of Steel,
formalizing their Axis alliance with
military provisions
13. August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact
14. September 1, 1939 Poland
15. April 1940
16. May 1940
17. May 6 – June 4, 1940 Dunkirk
18. *June 10, 1940 Italy entered World
War II on the Axis side
19. June 22, 1940
20. August 1940
21. *September 27, 1940, Germany,
Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite
Pact, which became known as the
Axis alliance.
22. September 7, 1940-May 1941 The
Blitz
23. September 1940 Mussolini Egypt
24. October 1940 Greece
25. 22 June 1941 – 5 December 1941
Operation Barbarossa
26. September 1941- January 1943
Leningrad
27. January 1941 Final Solution
28. July 1942 Poland
29. April 19, 1943-May 16, 1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
30. March 1941 Lend-Lease Act
31. August 1941 Atlantic Charter
32. 1940 Japan French Indochina and
Dutch East Indies
33. *September 4, 1941 The American
Destroyer USS Greer was attacked
by a German submarine. In response
FDR orders the U.S. Navy to attack
German Ship. The U.S. embarks on
an Undeclared war on Germany
34. *October 17, 1941 The U.S.
Destroyer U.S.S. Kearny is damage
in an engagement with a German
Submarine 11 American sailors are
killed
35. December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
36. December 11, 1941
37. Months after December 7, 1941Febuary 1942
38. May 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
39. June 1942 Battle of Midway
40. Tehran Conference Nov.28- Dec.1,
1943
41. November 1942
42. May 1943 Rommel
43. July 1943 Sicily
44. July 1942- February 1943 Battle of
Stalingrad
45. June 6, 1944 D-Day
46. February 1945 Dresden
47. February 4-11 1945 Yalta
48. December 16, 1944- January 25,
1945 Battle of the Bulge
49. May 7, 1945
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50. May 8, 1945
51. May 1942 Philippines
*March 1945, the Allies had cross Rhine
River into Western Germany
*August 7, 1942-Febuaray 8, 1943 The
Battle of Guadalcanal. Victory at this
battle marked the beginning of an
“island-hopping” campaign by the U.S.
to recapture Japanese held islands and
bypass others on their way to Japan.
57. *April 12, 1945 FDR dies and
Truman takes over the Presidency
58. July 16-August 2, 1945 Potsdam
59. August 6, 1945
60. August 8, 1945
61. August 9, 1945
62. August 10, 1945
63. September 2, 1945
52. October 20,1944 Philippines
53. February to March 1945 Iwo Jima
54. April to July 1945 Okinawa
55. October 25, 1944 Kamikaze Attacks
56. July 1945 Manhattan Project