WWII EVENTS

By: Michael Ortiz & Rodniqua Debro

Due: April 4,2012

Beginning of WWII-1939

Major cause was the Treaty of Versailles which blamed Germany for WWI

September 1, 1939

Was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.

The invasion began on 1 September 1939

GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS ( Beginning of War)

AXIS POWERS

Germany Italy Japan Russia (then moved

to Allies)

ALLIES

United States Great Britain France

Pearl Harbor (December 7,1941) Japanese surprise attack on Pearl

Harbor, Hawaii.

Internment (January 13, 1942)

Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps

Battle of Midway( June 4-7, 1942) Effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when

the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers.  Was the turning point of the war

Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942)

One of bloodiest battles ever, it was the German army's greatest defeat.

May 13, 1943

Germans give up North Africa

D-Day (June 6, 1944) Allied invasion of Normandy, France

Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944)

Thirty German divisions were secretly massed in the Ardennes Forest and then thrown against a weakened American line on December 16, 1944. The Americans were completely taken by surprise, and the Germans made excellent headway.

Battle of Okinawa (April 1945)

After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland.

Ending of war( August 6, 1945) United states dropped an atomic bomb

on Hiroshima and a few days later at Nagasaki!

WWII Ends( August 14, 1945) Japan surrenders

The war ends after many years of fighting