WW2 TIMELINE by https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r made by Harleigh Todd and Alyssa Lee en-us 2022-03-24 16:46:33 UTC 2026-03-25 02:38:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Germany invades Poland - Sept. 1, 1939 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112350722 World War II in Europe began when Hitler's Nazi Germany attacked Poland. The countries that fought against Germany and the Axis Powers in Europe were called the Allied Powers. Later the United States would help in defeating Hitler.]]> 2022-03-24 17:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112350722 Dunkirk - May 26th-June 4th 1940 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112359395 In World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the evacuation. ]]> 2022-03-24 17:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112359395 Resources - Websites 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112361977 https://www.ducksters.com/
https://www.britannica.com/
https://www.history.com/
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/history-of-the-un]]> 2022-03-24 17:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112361977 Battle of Britain - July 10-Oct. 31, 1940 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112369000 After Germany and Hitler had conquered most of Europe, including France, the only major country left to fight them was Great Britain. Germany wanted to invade Great Britain, but first they needed to destroy Great Britain's Royal Air Force. The Battle of Britain was when Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion.]]> 2022-03-24 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112369000 Let's take a quiz! 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112383867 Q: What was the main goal Hitler wanted to accomplish by bombing the British air force in the Battle of Britain?
-To keep them from attacking his troops in France
-To destroy the air force in preparation to invade Britain
-To prove his air force was stronger
-To keep the British on the defense
-To stop them from bombing Germany

A: To destroy the air force in preparation to invade Britain


]]> 2022-03-24 17:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112383867 Attack on Pearl Harbor: Dec. 7th, 1941 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112390407 Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. The morning of the attack, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on to the base. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. ]]> 2022-03-24 17:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112390407 Japanese Internment Camps - Feb. 19, 1942 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112402944 After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor the United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II. Not long after the attack, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that allowed the military to force people of Japanese ancestry into internment camps. Around 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to the camps. People were forced to move into an area that was surrounded by barbed wire. They were not allowed to leave.]]> 2022-03-24 18:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112402944 Let's take a quiz! 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112408887 Q: Around how many Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps during World War II?

-900
-3,000
-15,000
-40,000
-120,000

A: 120,000
]]> 2022-03-24 18:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112408887 Battles of El-Alamein: July 1-27, 1942 and October 23-November 11, 1942 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112415334 The second battle was decisive after the first one ended in a stalemate. The second battle marked the beginning of the end for the Axis in North Africa. ]]> 2022-03-24 18:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112415334 Siege of Leningrad - Sept. 8, 1941-Jan. 27, 1944 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112422080 After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, German armies had by early September approached Leningrad from the west and south while their Finnish allies approached to the north down the Karelian Isthmus. Leningrad’s entire able-bodied population was mobilized to build antitank fortifications along the city’s perimeter in support of the city’s 200,000 Red Army defenders. Leningrad’s defenses soon stabilized, but by early November it had been almost completely encircled, with all its vital rail and other supply lines to the Soviet interior cut off.]]> 2022-03-24 18:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2112422080 Chamberlain’s policy of Appeasement - Sept. 30, 1938 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114121283 Also known as the Munich Agreement, the settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at Czechoslovakia, where about three million people in the Sudetenland were of German origin.]]> 2022-03-25 16:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114121283 Non Aggression pact - Aug. 23, 1939 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114183418 On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. With Europe on the brink of another major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet military.]]> 2022-03-25 17:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114183418 Operation torch November 8-10, 1942 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114192716 Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II]]> 2022-03-25 17:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114192716 Battle of Stalingrad - Aug. 23, 1942 - Feb. 2, 1943 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114199643 Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies.]]> 2022-03-25 17:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114199643 Battle of Midway - June 1942 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114204199 The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. ]]> 2022-03-25 17:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114204199 Bataan Death March April 9, 1942 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114204957 The Bataan Death March forced a march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards.  ]]> 2022-03-25 17:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2114204957 First use of Kamikazes - Oct. 25, 1944 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117240857 On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deploy kamikaze (“divine wind”) bombers against American warships for the first time. It will prove costly–to both sides. This decision to employ suicide bombers against the American fleet at Leyte, an island of the Philippines, was based on the failure of conventional naval and aerial engagements to stop the American offensive.]]> 2022-03-28 14:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117240857 D-Day - June 6, 1944 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117241470 On 6 June 1944 – 'D-Day' – Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation.]]> 2022-03-28 14:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117241470 V-E Day - May 8, 1945 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117242183 On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II. ]]> 2022-03-28 14:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117242183 Battle of Okinawa - March 26 - July 2, 1945 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117242885 Battle of Okinawa, (April 1–June 21, 1945), World War II battle fought between U.S. and Japanese forces on Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands. Okinawa is located just 350 miles (563 km) south of Kyushu, and its capture was regarded as a vital precursor to a ground invasion of the Japanese home islands. Dubbed “the Typhoon of Steel” for its ferocity, the battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific War, claiming the lives of more than 12,000 Americans and 100,000 Japanese, including the commanding generals on both sides. In addition, at least 100,000 civilians were either killed in combat or were ordered to commit suicide by the Japanese military.]]> 2022-03-28 14:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117242885 Bombing of Hiroshima - Aug. 6, 1945 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117243191 On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people.]]> 2022-03-28 14:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117243191 Bombing of Nagasaki - Aug. 9, 1945 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117243651 Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the city. The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT.]]> 2022-03-28 14:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117243651 V-J Day - Aug. 14, 1945 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117243962 Finally recognizing that victory was impossible, the Japanese government accepted Allied surrender terms without qualifications on August 14, 1945. That same day, President Harry S. Truman announced from the White House that the Japanese acceptance met the terms laid down at the Potsdam Conference for unconditional surrender. As soon as the news of Japan’s surrender was announced on August 14, celebrations erupted across the United States. The United Kingdom announced that its official V-J Day would be the next day, August 15, 1945, and Americans exuberantly joined in that day’s merriment, too.]]> 2022-03-28 14:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117243962 Yalta Conference - Feb. 4-11, 1945 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117244422 The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945, during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.]]> 2022-03-28 14:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117244422 Did you know? 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117254420 There was a huge civilian evacuation attempt! Both before and during the siege, the Russians attempted to evacuate large numbers of the civilian population in Leningrad. It’s thought approximately 1,743,129 people (including 414,148 children) were evacuated by March 1943, which amounted to around 1/3 of the city’s population.]]> 2022-03-28 14:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117254420 Did you know! 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117617430 Did you know the idea of the Allies Island Hopping to bypass heavily fortified enemy islands instead of trying to capture every island in sequence en route to a final target? The reasoning is that those islands can simply be cut off from their supply chains (leading to their eventual capitulation) rather than needing to be overwhelmed by superior force, thus speeding up progress and reducing losses of troops and material.]]> 2022-03-28 17:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117617430 Island Hopping 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117639069 In order to defeat Japan, the U.S. came up with a plan called Island Hopping. Through this measure, the U.S. hoped to gain military bases and secure as many small islands in the Pacific as they could. ]]> 2022-03-28 17:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117639069 Battle of Iwo Jima - Feb. 19, 1945 - March 26, 1945 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117651272 Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan.  American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the ensuing Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks.]]> 2022-03-28 17:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117651272 Forming of the United Nations April - June, 1945 293anl11 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117660060 Four months after the San Francisco Conference ended, The United Nations officially began. Now, more than 75 years later, the United Nations is still working to maintain international peace and security, give humanitarian assistance to those in need, protect human rights, and uphold international law. ]]> 2022-03-28 17:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117660060 Let's take a quiz! 830hmt04 https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117660430 Q: On what date was Hiroshima bombed?

-August 6, 1945
-August 12, 1945
-August 9, 1945
-August 6, 1845

A: August 6, 1945]]> 2022-03-28 17:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/830hmt04/b5nbcbawxhvbwh3r/wish/2117660430