Timeline by Bailey Jones

1931 Japan Invades Manchuria

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 16:08:27 UTC

Prior to the actual invasion, Japan set up an incident that they then blamed the Chinese for. This gave them the pretext to invade Manchuria.

1937 Japan Invades China

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 16:08:45 UTC

With relations already strained from the Manchurian invasion, the Chinese invasion turned into a full-scale war, the Second Sino-Japanese War.

1933 Start of the Holocaust

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 16:10:30 UTC

The Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and is often marked as the beginning of the Holocaust.

1938 Hitler Invades Austria

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 16:13:10 UTC

Hitler believed that Austria belonged to Germany because the territory was taken from Germany after WWI. Finally, Austria was annexed as a part of Nazi Germany.

1939 Hitler Invades Czechoslovakia

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 16:13:26 UTC

In 1938 Germany annexed the Sudetenland. This led to the Munich Agreement which said that Hitler could keep the Sudetenland but to not take any more countries. He ultimately decided not to listen to this.

1939 Non-Aggression Treaty

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 16:55:02 UTC

Stalin and Hitler made a deal that they would split up Poland and then Stalin would declare neutrality when war broke out and they would not fight each other.

1939 Invasion of Poland

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 17:00:06 UTC

The Allies threatened Hitler with war if he invaded another country, the Poland Invasion set off WWII.

1941 U.S. Oil Embargo on Japan

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 18:40:11 UTC

FDR sees Japan's aggression in Asia and decides to cut them off from receiving essential resources.

1940 Fall of France

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 18:40:47 UTC

German forces came into France so quick and so hard that the French could not resist them and they fell under Nazi control

1940 Battle of Britain

baileyj68 — 2025-04-09 18:43:04 UTC

In an effort to get Churchill to surrender, Hitler decided to bomb Britain day and night for a total of 6 weeks before realizing they were not going to surrender and he would have to try something else.

1940 Miracle at Dunkirk

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 11:35:56 UTC

The evacuation of the British and French soldiers stuck at the French port Dunkirk.

1940 Axis Powers Formed

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 11:36:48 UTC

The Axis Powers was made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan who all signed treaties and made agreements to work together.

1941 Hitler Attacks U.S.S.R

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:46:30 UTC

Hitler goes against the non-aggression pact and surprise attacks Stalin because he needed resources. Operation Barbarossa ended up being a Soviet victory and resulted in Stalin joining the Allies.

1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:49:11 UTC

Due to the oil embargo, tensions between the U.S. and Japan were rising and ultimately Tojo decided that they couldn't work it out peacefully and bombed the American territory of Hawaii at Pearl Harbor.

1941 U.S. Declares War on Japan

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:49:45 UTC

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. immediately declared war on Japan and joined the Allies in WWII.

1942 El Alamein

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:51:18 UTC

The Allies opened up the southern front of the war and went through Northern Africa into Italy and forced Mussolini into hiding in Germany.

1942 Battle of Midway

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:51:45 UTC

The Battle of Midway is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific. It had a crippling effect on Japan's naval forces.

1942 Battle of the Coral Sea

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:53:02 UTC

It was an Allied victory that stopped the Pacific expansion of the Japanese.

1941 Final Solution Implimented

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:56:04 UTC

As the Nazi party grew, so did the hatred for Jews and other races that didn't align with Hitler's Aryan ideals. The Final Solution was the plan to execute and get rid of European Jews.

1942 Battle of Stalingrad

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 15:57:02 UTC

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major turning point of the War in Europe. It was a decisive Soviet victory that shifted the balance in power.

1944 D-Day

baileyj68 — 2025-04-10 16:00:13 UTC

The Normandy Invasion marked the beginning of not only French but European liberation.

1945 VE Day

baileyj68 — 2025-04-12 00:48:01 UTC

Victory in Europe day was the day the war in Europe ended after the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler, and the surrender of German forces.

1945 Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

baileyj68 — 2025-04-12 00:48:28 UTC

The Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were U.S. victories that got us closer to the planned full-scale invasion of Japan.

1945 Atomic Bombs Dropped

baileyj68 — 2025-04-12 00:49:35 UTC

When it became clear that Japan would not surrender and American lives would be at stake invading Japan, Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1945 Japan Surrenders

baileyj68 — 2025-04-12 00:49:53 UTC

Japan surrenders just days after the atomic bombs, effectively ending WWII.