This is a timeline of the major events of World War Two.
Created by cutipie747 on May 1, 2008
Last updated: 07/14/10 at 08:42 AM
After the war, some of those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to trial. Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers -- Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States -- presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. Most of the defendants admitted to the crimes of which they were accused, although most claimed that they were simply following the orders of a higher authority. Those individuals directly involved in the killing received the most severe sentences. Other people who played key roles in the Holocaust, including high-level government officials, and business executives who used concentration camp inmates as forced laborers, received short prison sentences or no penalty at all.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was voluntarily turned over to the Allied 21st Army Group, a combined British-Canadian unit, on April 15, 1945 by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the man who was in charge of all the concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen was in the middle of the war zone where British and German troops were fighting in the last days of World War II and there was a danger that the typhus epidemic in the camp would spread to the troops on both sides.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/BergenBelsen05.html
On February 4th to 11 February 1945 the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) convened near Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula. It was the second of three wartime conferences among the major Allied Power leaders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference
The japanese were planning to attack Midway until the code breakers for the US found out. The japanese continued with theri plan, but the US was prepared and the Japanese went strait into an ambush. The battle killed 362 Americans and 3,057 Japanese.
This battle occured when the United Stes de-coded Japanese messages and they realized Japan was about to attack New Guinea. Thus the US sent two carriers to intercept the Japanese at the Coral Sea
The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is about to attack. At 6 a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and heads for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm
The Sudetenland was occupied by Germany between October 1 and October 10, 1938. This unification with the Third Reich was followed by the flight or expulsion of most of the region's Czech population to areas remaining within Czechoslovakia. The remaining parts of Czechoslovakia were subsequently invaded and annexed by Germany in March 1939.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland
On August 19, about 95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million votes of approval (90 percent of the vote). Thus Adolf Hitler could claim he was Führer of the German nation by direct will of the people. Hitler now wielded absolute power in Germany, beyond that of any previous traditional head of state. He had become, in effect, the law unto himself.
http://chss2.montclair.edu/klajmang/fuehrer.htm
On the night of January 30, 1933, the Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

