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World War II Timeline (Prewar+1937-1945 - Coggle Diagram
World War II Timeline (Prewar+1937-1945
Eastern front
1938
Germany annexes Austria
Germany annexes Sudetenland
Munish Conference
1939
Germany annexs Czechoslovakia
Germany/ Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Germany invades Poland
Soviet Union invades Poland
USSR invades Finland( Winter War)
Germany/Soviet nonaggression pact
1941
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania join Axis
Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
Nazis invade Soviet Union in Operation Barborossa
1940
Soviet win the Winter war
1943
Soviets win at Stalingrad
1944
Soviets push into Poland
1945
Battle of Berlin
Hitler commits Suicide
Pacific Front
1922 - Japan signs a treat with china to respect their leaders and borders
1928 - Japanese congress signs a pact renouncing war
1931 - Manchuria captured by the Japanese and renamed Manchouko
1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1936-Japan signs a pact of create the Axis with Italy and Germany
1937
Marco Polo Incident-triggers the start of war between Japan and China
Battle of Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek goals for Shanghai
Time to relocate factories into central China
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 Nanjing
roughly 1,000 Chinese soldiers were shot dead by other members of their own army for attempting to retreat
1941
Pearl Harbor
US declares war on Axis
1942
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal begins
Japan takes Singapore, Philippines, Malay,
Bacon, Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong
1943
North Africa
1939
Italy invades Albania
1935
Italy invades Ethiopia
1940
Italy attacks Egypt
1941
British destroy Italian forces in North Africa
Nazis back up the Italians in North Africa with help of Erwin Rommel
1942
North Africa in statement
1943
Pommel and Nazis pushed out of Africa
Western front
1936
Germany takes the Rhineland (used to be demil)
Germany takes the Rhineland
Spanish Civil War begins( Francisco Franco leader of fascists
1939
Spansh Civil War ends (fascists win)
1940
Germany invades Denmark/Norway
Germany invades Poland
USSR invades Poland
Paris falls to Nazis
Battle of Britain
1943
Italy invaded
1944
Americans capture Rome
D-Day( Allied invasion of France)
Battle of the Bulge
1945
Mussolini murdered
Allies invade western Germany