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WWII Timeline
Events of the lead up and course of WWII
Created by
Emily
⟶ Updated 25 Oct 2017 ⟶
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Events
1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed
1920s Roaring Twenties The Jazz Age
1921 Bolshevicks (communists) win Russian civil war
1923 Munich Putsch
1922 Mousolini (fascists) take power in Italy
1928 Great Depression begins
1930 The dole is introduced in Australia
1931 Japan invades Manchuria
1932 Unemployment peaks
1933 Hitler gains power. Japan withdraws from the League of Nations
1934 President Hindenburg dies. Hitler declares himself Fuhrer
1935 Rearmament & conscription in Germany. Italy invades Abyssinia. Nuremberg Laws remove basic rights from Jews
1936 Germany re-enters the Rhineland. Germany & Italy support Franco (Spanish Civil War) and become allies Japan and Germany become allies. Stalin purges enemies in Communist Party (USSR)
1937 Japan invades China
March 1938 Germany annexes Austria. At the Munich Conference Germany gains Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia
March 1939 Germany invades and takes Czechoslovakia
1 Sep 1939 Germany invades Poland
3 Sep 1939 Britain declares war on Germany. Australia forms 2nd AIF
April-May 1940 Germany overruns Western Europe
July 1940 Battle of Britain prevents German invasion
November 1940 British and Australian forces inflict defeats in North Africa
June 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece and the USSR. AIF victory of Vichy French
7 December 1941 Japan enters the war. Attacks Pearl Harbor. US enters the war
20 Jan 1942 "Final Solution to the European Jewish Question" (Holocaust)
15 Feb 1942 Singapore falls to Japanese
19 Feb 1942 Darwin bombed
April 1942 Japanese conquer most of South-East Asia
May-June 1942 Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway set back Japan
1 June 1942 Japanese submarines raid Sydney Harbour
October 1942 German forces defeated by British, Aust. & Commonwealth forces at Alamein
July 1943 Germans defeated at Stalingrad and battle of Kursk. Mussolini overthrown
March 1944 British and Indian forces drive Japanese back in Burma. US defeats Japanese on Pacific islands
6 June 1944 D Day landings in France
8 May 1945 Germany surrenders
6 & 9 August 1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8 August 1945 USSR enters war against Japan
15 Sep 1945 Japan formally surrenders
April - June 1945 The United Nations is formed
Periods
Australians defeat forces in New Guinea
