World War II Descriptive Timeline

In 1931 Japan attacked Manchuria and pounding the Chinese defense. Italy started to attack Ethiopia, while Germany, where Hitler organized Nazis, undertook a large rearmament. Germany, Japan, and Italy continued these aggressive acts until the United States tried to stay away from this commotion.

Japan, Pearl Harbor and War

In mid November of 1941, Japan demanded America to discharge Japanese assets and stop the U.S. navy expansion. This was rejected and caused the Pearl Harbor attack to come in. 150 U.S. planes were destroyed and 2,300 citizens were killed. This finally caused America to get in on the war, it was finally declared against Japan.

The War in North Africa and Europe

After America had entered WWII, western allies concentrated power in Europe. In 1942 American armies started battle in French North Africa, and also at this time Soviet Union struggled against German troops in Stalingrad. America thereafter started to invade Sicily and kept struggling on in the battle to victory with British troops.

The War in the Pacific

General James Doolittle led U.S. army bombers on an attack to Tokyo that had little real military meaning, but this gave Americans a huge psychological boost to their battles. The Battle of Midway in June in the central Pacific Ocean became something that turned over allies in the war; it was the first defeat of the Japanese navy in the pacific.

The Politics of War

Meetings of nations were quiet necessary for war. The first of these took place in 1941 with Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill this was at a time military struggle seemed dreary. A series of these sorts of meetings took place after that first assembly. At Cairo, two years later Roosevelt and Churchill met with the Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek to concur on some terms for Japan; this did include the surrendering of increases from past hostility acts.

War, Victory, and the Bomb

In February 1945, the U.S. set a target for the island of Iwo Jima. The battle was a long one with many suicide attacks and resistance on land. The U.S. took the island after losing at least 6,000 soldiers. A few months later American forces dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. This quickly hastened the end of the war and soon Japan finally started to surrender on September 2^nd, 1945.

The Rise of Industrial Unions

The start of the Great Depression led to a steep drop in industry for all types of manufacturing creation. With the help of the governor of Michigan, a resolution was reached in 1937. United Auto Workers had gained contracts with 400 companies boosting the success of employing citizens with jobs.

Quick Links

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm World War II Documents

On this site I found so many documents all referring to events in the Second World War. Some were minor like Nuremberg Crimes Trail, while others are known for like Germany's surrender. It has most of the conferences and statements from country leaders also. It's interesting to see what these papers really had said at the time.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm World War II Summary

There are many subjects surrounded to WWII, such as even scientists and inventors, secret agents, and war journalists. Most is in a table format and just serves as quick facts in case you forgot the certain date when Hitler started the Holocaust. Some are articles however, like Jewish ghettos and the quotes from the people who once lived in them.

http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mainpage.html World War II Commemoration

This website has different categories all related to the war. There's the story of how it had happened in the first place, biographies and articles, air combat films, photographs etc. The articles vary from Winston Churchill to war crimes and Battle of midway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ World War II Information

I think this site holds pretty much most information you could find on this war. Various timelines to certain events like Nazi genocide, and articles on Japan's battles as well as the countdown to the war and how it started to expand. It's also interesting to see actual videos of statements from Churchill and Roosevelt.

http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.ww2.html American involvement in World War II

This site is just basically a table time lining how America stepped foot into the battle field. From starting with Germany invading Poland to the day Japan had surrendered. It goes by all the events in order and how late America had came into the war before their allies.