WW2 Timeline by Alexander Walker https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq List of events that occured through the duration of the war. en-us 2023-03-06 19:59:50 UTC 2025-04-16 11:57:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Sudetenland Annexation- March 15, 1939 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505751141 The Sudetenland was a province in northern Czechoslovakia, bordering Germany. Germany wanted to expand its territory to include the Sudetenland and gain control of key military defences in the area. Once it had control of these defences, invading the rest of Czechoslovakia would be considerably easier.]]> 2023-03-06 20:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505751141 Pearl Harbor Attack - December 7, 1941 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505752425 On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Prior to this, Japan had been discussing peace with the United States which gave Americans a false sense of hope and security. ]]> 2023-03-06 20:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505752425 Japanese Interment Camps - February 19, 1942 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505753904 Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II.]]> 2023-03-06 20:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505753904 Attack on Philippines - April 9, 1942 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505756740 Objectives. The Japanese planned to occupy the Philippines as part of their plan for a "Greater East Asia War" in which their Southern Expeditionary Army Group seized sources of raw materials in Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies while the Combined Fleet neutralized the United States Pacific Fleet.]]> 2023-03-06 20:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505756740 Battle of Midway - June 4, 1942 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505758987 During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy.]]> 2023-03-06 20:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505758987 Island hopping - August 1942 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505760686 As American and Allied forces “Island Hopped” through the Pacific, one of their key objectives was to cut off Japanese bases from resupply or rescue. After the initial amphibious landings of the “hop,” Allied land and sea forces would gain control of the areas around the bypassed Japanese bases.]]> 2023-03-06 20:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505760686 Guadalcanal - August 7, 1942 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505761554 The battle marked the first time since entering the war that the United States had gone on the offensive and attacked the Japanese. The battle lasted six months]]> 2023-03-06 20:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505761554 Stalingrad - August 23, 1942 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505762825 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 favour of the Allies.]]> 2023-03-06 20:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505762825 D-Day - June 6, 1944 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505764231 The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.]]> 2023-03-06 20:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505764231 Yalta Meeting - February 4-11, 1945 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505769213 With an Allied victory looking likely, the aim of the Yalta Conference was to decide what to do with Germany once it had been defeated. In many ways the Yalta Conference set the scene for the rest of the Cold War in Europe.]]> 2023-03-06 20:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505769213 Fall of Berlin - April 16-May 2, 1945 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505770293
In May 1945, the Red Army barreled into Berlin and captured the city, the final step in defeating the Third Reich and ending World War II in Europe.
]]> 2023-03-06 20:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505770293 Hitlers Death - April 30, 1945 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505771151 After German forces had been defeated and Hitler was surrounded, him and his wife committed suicide on April 30th. ]]> 2023-03-06 20:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505771151 Los Alamos - August 1945 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505771560 Led by scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the staff at this secret Manhattan Project location called Los Alamos was responsible for the development and testing of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in August, 1945.]]> 2023-03-06 20:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2505771560 Hiroshima - August 6, 1945 10129619 https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2507515118 On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure]]> 2023-03-07 20:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/10129619/jylikuuoq3xq6lzq/wish/2507515118