wwii timeline 1933-1945. 1933 hitler comes to power
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WWII Timeline
1933-1945
1933
• Hitler Comes to Power
1936• Hitler takes back the Rhineland
1937
• Germany Annexes Austria
– Hitler's arrival in Austria
1938• Germany starts to take over
Czechoslovakia(Sudetenland)
1939• March-Finish dividing Czechoslovakia• August 23- Non Aggression pact between Russia &
Germany• Sept 1-Germany attacks Poland• Sept 3- Britain & France declare
war on Germany• Sept 3- FDR announces
American Neutralist • Sept 17- Russia attacks
Eastern Poland• Nov 30- Russia invades Finland
Russia attacking Poland
1940
• Jan-April- “Phony War”• April 9- Germany invades
Norway• May 10- Germany invades
Belgium, Holland, & Luxembourg• May 12- Germany invades France• May 26-June 4- Miracle at Dunkirk• June 22- France falls to Germany(divided in ½)• July 10- Germany begins bombing Britain• Sept 7- Blitz begins• Sept 27- Germany, Italy, & Japan sign Tripartite Pact• Oct 28- Italy invades Greece
1941
• Feb- Rommel moves into North Africa
• May- British sink the Bismark
• May-June – Stalin ignores warnings of German attack
• July 24- Japan invades IndoChina (vietnam)
• Aug 1- U.S cuts off oil supplies to Japan
• Aug 28- Germany invades Russia (Leningrad)
• Sept- Germany attacks U.S naval ships
• Nov 26- Japan advances towards Hawaii
- 6 aircraft carriers
1941 continued…
• Dec 5,6- Germans dig in around Moscow, cold weather stalls Germany, Russians counter and push Germans back
• Dec 7- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor• Dec 8- U.S declares war on Japan• Dec 9- Japan attacks MacArthur planes in Philippians• Dec 10- Guam falls to Japan• Dec 11- Hitler declares
war on U.S• Dec 22- Wake Is. Fall to
Japanese
1942
• Jan 2- Manila falls to Japanese
• Jan 20- Hitler plans “Final Solution” to Jewish problem
• Feb 20- FDR- ok’s internment camps removing Japanese Americans (110,000)
• Feb 27- March 1- Japan wins naval battle of Java Sea• March 11- MacArthur leaves Philippians “I shall Return”• April 9- 12,000 American soldiers surrender to Japanese• April 10- Bataan Death March (85 miles in 6 days)• April 18- Doolittle Raids
1942 continued…
• May- Japanese naval codes broken by American Joseph Rochefort
• May 2-8 – The battle of Coral Sea, total fight done by air
• June- Germany turns attention to Southern oil fields of Russia (Stalingrad<-Sept 3)
• June 3&4- Battle of Midway, Japan looses 4 aircraft carriers
• June 21- Rommel in N.Africa captures Tobruk leaving clear road to Egyptian oil fields
Battle of Midway
1942 continued again…• Aug 7- U.S captures
Guadalcanal fighting continues through December
• Sept- Rommel runs out of gas
• Oct 23-Nov 4 – 2nd Battle of El Alamein-pushes Rommel back
• Nov 8-13 – American troops land in N.Africa
• Nov 19- Germans trapped around Stalingrad
Europe in 1942
1943• Jan 31- Germany surrenders in Stalingrad• Feb 9- Battle for Guadalcanal ends - 1,752 US died - 24,000 Japanese died• Feb 14-20- Fighting in N.Africa Sherman
tank defected by German Tiger Tank• March 9- Rommel leaves N.Africa• April 1- food rationing begins in U.S• April 19- Massacre of Jews in Warsaw
begins
Tiger Tank
Sherman Tank
1943 continued…• May 9-14- Germans & Italians in N.Africa surrender • July 9-10- U.S & British invade Sicily, taken August 17th
• July 12- Zitadelte greatest tank battle in History Germany vs. Russia
• July 25- Mussolini arrested by Italian police• Sept 8- Italy surrenders to Allied forces• Sept 10- Germany forces outer Rome & take over the
country• Oct 13- Italy declares war on Germany• Nov 20-23- U.S Marines attack Gilbert Islands• Nov 28-Dec 1- “Big Three” meet in Tetra, Iran
1944
• Jan-June- Massive buildup of troops in Southern England
• Jan 22- Allied troops land in Italy (Anzio)• March 6- U.S first attacks Berlin 660 Bombers, 800
fighters• June 4- U.S forces liberate Rome & Italy• June 6- D-Day “operation overload”• July 10- City of Caen is take back by Allies• July 30- Patton’s Third army breaks out of Normandy to
the south• Aug 10- Americans recapture Guam• Aug 25-26- Allied forces liberate Paris
1944 continued…• Sept 17-25- Operation Market Garden- Failure
• Oct 14- Rommel commits suicide
• Oct 20- MacArthur returns to Philippines
• Oct 23-26- Leyte Gulf- Japanese loss, first Kamakazees
• Dec 16- Battle of the Bulge, through Jan 27 1945
1945
• Feb 4-11- Yalta conference on the Black Sea
• Feb 19-March 26- Iwo Jima • March 29- Bombing of Tokyo• April-June 22- The Battle of Okinawa• April 12-FDR dies
- Eisenhower discovers “Death” camps• April 30- Hitler commits suicide• May 2- German Army in Italy surrenders• May 7- Germans sign a surrender
1945 continued… • May 7- Germans sign a surrender
• May 8- VE Day
• July 16- Detonation of A-bomb in New Mexico
• Aug 6-A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima
• Aug 9- A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki
• Aug 15- VJ-Day
• Sept 2-Surrender Ceremonies, USS Missouri