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World War II Timeline (Prewar+1937-1945) - Coggle Diagram
World War II Timeline
(Prewar+1937-1945)
Eastern front
1938
Germany annexs Austria
Germany annexes Sudetenland
1939
Germany annexs Czechoslovakia
Germany/ Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Germany invades Poland
Soviet Union invades Poland
USSR invades Poland
USSR invades Finland (Winter War)
Germany invads Poland
1941
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania join Axis
Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
Nazis invade Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa
1943
soviets win at stalingrad
1944
soviets push into Poland
1945
Battle of Berlin
Hitler commits suicide
North Africa
1939
Italy invades Albania
1942
North Africa in stalemate
1941
British destroy Italian forces in North Africa
Nazis backup the Italians in North Africa with help of Erwin Rommel
1943
Rommel and Nazis pushed out of Africa
Pacific Front
1936- Japan signs a pact of create the Axis Italy and Germany
1937
Battle of Shangai
Chiang Kai-Shek gooals for Shanghai
Time to relocate factories into central chona.
Build international support
Build nationalism
Unite chinese people
Slow down the Japanese
1st instance i history where there is mass bombing of civilians
1st time where time there urban house to house warfare
Battle of Nanijing
Marco Polo incident-triggers the start of war between Japan and China
1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1931 - Manchuria captured by the Japanese and renamed Manchouko
1928 - Japanese congress signs a pact renouncing war
1922 - Japan signs a treat with china to respect their leaders and borders
1941
Pearl Harbor
U.S. declares war on Axis
1942
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal begins
Japan takes Singapore, Phikippines, Malay, Burma, Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong
1943
Battle of Guadalcanal ends
Western front
1936
Germany takes the Rhineland (used to be demilitarized)
Spanish Civil War begins
Spaninsh Civil War ends (fascists win)
1940
350,000 British troops escape at dunkirk
Germany invades France, Paris falls in 6 weeks
Germany invades Denmark/ Noeway
Germany invades Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium
Battle of Britain
Paris falls to Nazis
1943
Italy invaded
1944
Americans capture Rome
D-Day (Allied invasion of France)
Battle of the Bulge
1945
Mussolini murdered
Allies invade western Germany