WORD WAR II TIMELINE by Malik Casey

HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR 1-30-1933

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It took the economic and political instability with two more chancellors failing to stabilise the situation to worsen, and the support of the conservative elite, to convince Hindenburg to appoint Hitler. Hitler was sworn in as the chancellor of Germany on the 30 January 1933. The Nazis were now in power.

KRISTALLNACHT NOVEMBER 9, 1938

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Nazi officials disguised the organized nature of the pogroms. This was the first time Nazi officials made massive arrests of Jews specifically because they were Jews, without any further cause for arrest.

INVATION OF POLAND 9,1-1939-10,6-1939

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which marked the beginning of World War II. On Sept. 1, 1939, one week after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, more than a million German troops, along with 50,000 Slovakian soldiers, invaded Poland. Two weeks later, a half-million Russian troops attacked Poland from the east.

BATTLE OF BRITAIN JULY 10,1940

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The Battle of Britain was a major turning point of World War two. It ended when Germany's Luftwaffe failed to control the skies over the royal air force despite months of bombing Britain's air bases military posts and ultimately its civilians.Hitler did not go through with his plan to invade England and suspended the battle of Britain.

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY 6/3-6/1942

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The Japanese had grouped their carries in a single battle group. The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 8-23-1942

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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

BATTLE OF THE BULGE 12-16-1944

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The catastrophic losses on the German side prevented Germany from resisting the advance of Allied forces following the Normandy Invasion. Less than four months after the end of the Battle of the Bulge, Germany surrendered to Allied forces.

OPERATION REINHARD 10/1941-11/1943

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They were killed by a bullet in the neck, while the rest were being forced into the gas chambers. To drive the naked people into the execution barracks housing the gas chambers, the guards used whips, clubs, and rifle butts. Panic was instrumental in filling the gas chambers because the need to evade blows on their naked bodies forced the victims rapidly forward.

BATTLE OF IWO JIMA 2-19-1945

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The Japanese defenders of the island were dug into bunkers deep within the volcanic rocks. Approximately 70,000 U.S. Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers took part in the battle.

JAPAN SURRENDERS 9-2-1945

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The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. It was a war without mercy, and the US Office of War Information acknowledged as much in 1945.