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World War II Timeline 1937-1945 - Coggle Diagram
World War II Timeline 1937-1945
Pacific Front
1937
Battle of Shanghai- 1st instance in history where there is mass bombing of civilians / 1st time where there is urban house to house warfare
Battle of Nanjing
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 treaty with China to respect their leaders and borders
1936-Japan signs a pact of create the Axis with Italy and Germany
1941
Pearl Harbor
U.S. declares war on Axis
1942
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
Japan takes Singapore, Phillippines, Malay, Burma, Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong
1943
Battle of Guadalcanal ends
Western Front
1936
Germany takes Rhineland (used to be demilitarized)
Spanish Civil War begins
1939
Spanish Civil War ends (fascists win)
1940
Germany invades Denmark/Norway
Germany invades Luxemberg, Netherlands, Belguim
350,000 British troops escape at Dunkirk
Germany invades France, Paris falls in 6 weeks
1943
Italy invaded
1944
America capture Rome
D-Day (Allied invasion of France)
Battle of the Bulge
1945
Mussolini murdered
Allies invade western Germany
Eastern Front
1938
Germany annexes Austria
Germany annexes Sudetenland
1939
Germany invades Poland
Soviet Union invades Poland
German/Soviet Non-Aggresion Pact
Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
USSR invades Poland
USSR invades Finland (Winter War)
Germany invades 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
1935
Italy invades Ethiopia
1940
Italy attacks Egypt
1941
British destroy Italian forces in North Africa
Nazis backup the Italians in North Africa with help of Erwin Rommel
1942
North Africa in stalemate
1943
Rommel and Nazi's pushed out of Africa