Timeline of World War II
There was several reasons why World War II started.
1. To most people the treaty of Versailles solves nothing. Some people thought it was to harsh and others wanted it more strict. The american Senate refused to even sign it. Some were happy that Germany got split up into colonies and others thought it was completely unfair.
2.The League of Nations failed to keep the peace. After Italy left the League of Nations pretty much everyone else that was left realized it was failing. After the war broke out the league closed down. Through the whole war their headquarters were empty.
3. Hitler wanted more land. There was a lot of people who said that Hitler had no goals for the war. He would just make up policy's as he went along. He was greedy and wanted what other countries had.
Time line
1. To most people the treaty of Versailles solves nothing. Some people thought it was to harsh and others wanted it more strict. The american Senate refused to even sign it. Some were happy that Germany got split up into colonies and others thought it was completely unfair.
2.The League of Nations failed to keep the peace. After Italy left the League of Nations pretty much everyone else that was left realized it was failing. After the war broke out the league closed down. Through the whole war their headquarters were empty.
3. Hitler wanted more land. There was a lot of people who said that Hitler had no goals for the war. He would just make up policy's as he went along. He was greedy and wanted what other countries had.
Time line
- September 18, 1931- Japan invades Manchuria.
- October 2, 1935–May 1936- Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
- October 25–November 1, 1936- Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.
- July 7, 1937- Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.
- March 11–13, 1938- Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.
- September 1, 1939- Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
- September 3, 1939- Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
- June 10, 1940- Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
- March 1, 1941- Bulgaria joins the Axis Powers.
- December 7, 1941- Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
- December 8, 1941- The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.
- December 11–13, 1941- Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.
- July 25, 1943- The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
- June 4, 1944- Allied troops liberate Rome. Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in eastern Germany for the first time.
- June 6, 1944- British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
- December 16, 1944- The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat.
- April 30, 1945- Hitler commits suicide.
- May 7, 1945- Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
- May 9, 1945- Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
- August 6, 1945- The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
- August 9, 1945- The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
- September 2, 1945- Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.