Major WWII Events
1939-09-01 00:00:00
Germany Invasion on Poland
The final push that led to Great Britain and France, since Germans had already pushed around the treaty of Versailles. Along with basically breaking everything on the treaty, because he invaded the Rhineland, and Czechoslovakia, while also increasing their military, making an air force, along with other things.
1939-09-03 00:00:00
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
This was caused by Germany invading Poland and breaking the Treaty of Versailles. This move caused the start of WWII since people in Great Britain and France were getting pretty tired and angry of letting Germany capture all these lands.
1940-05-10 00:00:00
Germany invaded France and Captured Paris
This battle and invasion ended up with the result that half of France being occupied by Germany and Italian military.
1940-09-07 00:00:00
Germany bombed London and London Blitzing started
This was the constant bombing of the people in Great Britain, which at the end, the royal air force ended up depleting the the air power of the German Luftwaffe. Which also turned into the Battle of Britain when the Royal Air force fought back against the Luftwaffe.
1941-03-11 00:00:00
The Lend-Lease act
It was a compromise to Great Britain that the U.S. would provide aid to Great Britain while still being in some form of Isolationism since America didn't want to have full involvement and maintain their isolationism.
1941-06-22 00:00:00
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa is mostly the invasion of the Soviet Union, even though Hitler had a treaty with Stalin, it was always part of Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Union. This lead to many battles in the Soviet land, the Germans were winning and pushing very far, until they got to Stalingrad...
1941-12-07 00:00:00
Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was the attempt to destroy the support of American navy. They actually missed a lot of the naval materials and supply (they still hit many things, just not many ships and such). This bombing was also what lead America from aiding the war to full involvement in the war.
1941-12-08 00:00:00
U.S.declares war on Japan
Because of Pearl Harbor, this caused America to declare war on Japan, and enter WWII, on the Allies side. Which then they sent their naval power to go to the Pacific, which started the Pacific War.
1941-12-11 00:00:00
Germany declares war on U.S.
Germany declares war on U.S. to backup their ally, Japan, being a major enemy to not only Japan but Germany. Since they could bring in soldiers to Europe and threaten what they have done.
1941-12-11 00:00:00
U.S. declares war on Germany
U.S. declaring war on Germany, was when they started bringing in large groups of their own soldiers to Europe to fight back against the Germans. One of the major battles was being D-Day when the Allies broke through into France.
1942-06-04 00:00:00
Battle of Midway
This was when Japan attempted to capture the islands of Midway, but America intercepted messages and had a large battle that led to the Japanese navy to take major and permanent damage. This was the turning point in the Pacific War that allowed America to stop defending, and start attacking.
1943-02-02 00:00:00
Soviet victory at Battle of Stalingrad
This was the last battle that the Germans attempted to push further into the Soviet Union. It was a great humiliation for Hitler as well, but the loss of their great push into the Soviet Union is definitely a bigger loss.
1944-06-06 00:00:00
D-Day
This was the landing of American, British, and Canadian soldiers in Normandy. It was the most well planed and amphibious battle that happened in history. This battle lead to the liberation of France and soon the end of WWII.
1945-05-08 00:00:00
V-E Day: Victory in Europe
This is the victory of many European countries, since in the Battle of Berlin, Germany surrendered and Hitler suicide. This meant the war was over for many countries, but not America and Japan, they were still fighting in the Pacific War.
1945-08-06 00:00:00
The dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
This was one of the first bombs ever used (apart from the one used in New Mexico for testing purposes), this was also one of the bombs that lead to V-J day and the end of WWII for everyone.
1945-08-09 00:00:00
The dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
This bomb was one of the bombs that was used against the Japanese people, since the Japanese wouldn't surrender. It achieved it's purposed and it lead to V-J Day and the end of WWII.
1945-09-02 00:00:00
V-J Day
This was when the Japanese surrendered, and caused an Allied victory and the end of WWII.
1945-09-02 00:00:00
My Resources
I used my original paper timeline as a resource