Add the following events to the timeline in your interactive notebook

1. Add the following events to the timeline in your interactive notebook WWII Timeline Activity

2. Germany Invades Poland • September 1- October 6,1939 • was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. • The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.

3. D-Day Invasion • June 6, 1944 • The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Alliedinvasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am British Double Summer Time. In planning, as for most Allied operations, the term D-Day was used for the day of the actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPU4p7UQOtU

4. V-E Day • Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day or VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.

5. Battle of Iwo Jima • The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields (including South Field and Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.[2] This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.

6. Hiroshima and Nagasaki • August 6 and 9, 1945 • The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwkyPvlWPM0

7. Attack on Pearl Harbor • December 7,1941 • The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United Statesnaval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

8. Hitler’s Suicide • Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.[d] • That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.[1] Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successive locations[e] until 1970, when they were again exhumed, cremated, and the ashes scattered.[f]

9. Battle of Midway • The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. • Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan'sattack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea,

10. V-J Day • Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II