WWII Timeline
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Updated: 5 Mar 2020
All the way up to the Battle of Stalingrad
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Created byAydin Goings
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Prior Events that led to WWII:
-Military aggression from Italy, Germany, and Japan
-Discontent with the provisions from the Treaty of Versailles
-War Guilt Clause
-Italy getting nothing from the Treaty of Versailles
-The League of Nations did nothing to stop military aggressionMussolini attacking Ethiopia and the
League of Nations only voicing
disapproval and not doing anythingGermany, Italy, and Japan formed
the Axis Powers in 1936.As the Japanese economy suffered, military leaders pushed for expansionism
as a solution to address the problems of markets and shortages of
natural resources. This built on the nationalist feelings that had made the country a
world power just prior to the turn of the century.
The Japanese first acted on this policy beginning
in 1931 with the invasion of the Chinese province of Manchuria and the
league of Nations could only voice disappointment and nothing elseGermany and Italy sent troops and weapons to
Spain to assist Francisco Franco in winning the
Spanish Civil War in 1936. And the League of
Nations failing at stopping Hitler coming to power.The U.S passed the Neutrality Acts
(A foreign form of Isolationism)
to avoid war conflict and Great Britain and
France switched to a policy of Appeasement
falsely believing it would prevent another
world warHitler was able to annex Austria in 1938
due to Britain's and France's policy of
appeasement and their lack of a firm hand
over Hitler's agressionHitler then demanded the Sudetenland
in western Czechoslovakia. During the
Munich Conference of 1938, the
British and French agreed to
allow Hitler possession of the
Sudetenland in return for the promise
that his demands for additional territory
would cease.The policy of appeasement was
proven a failure when Hitler invaded
Czechoslovakia and Italy invaded
Albania soon after. However, Britain
France dopped the Policy when Hitler
invaded PolandThe Soviet Union and Germany
became allies in 1939 due to the
Non-Aggression Soviet PactThe Battle of Britain, which lasted from 1940 to 1941, The
German air force repeatedly the country, but the British had
technology to prepare for their attacks and could also decode
secret German messages and weren't going to surrender.Hitler betrays
the Soviet Union
and attacks themIn 1939, Congress amended its isolationist policy of neutrality
to allow the United States to sell weapons to the Allies.
These were paid for with cash and transported on their own ships.
This was known as a cash and carry policy. This was done to try
and help with the war but not have the U.S entirely get involvedJapan invaded the French colony of
Indochina in 1941, and in response
The United States placed an oil embargo
on Japan to prevent further aggression.Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor on Dec 7,
1941 due to the oil embargo
placed on them by the U.S
causing congress to declare
war on them the next dayAfter the Battle of Midway, The U.S began using
the island-hopping or leap-frogging strategy.
Which allowed them to bypass islands heavily
secured by Japan and take islands that were
strategically located in reach of the main islandsThe Battle of Stalingrad,
which Germans were very
defensive about was a major turning
point on the European front. due
the Soviets being able to push back
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