World War II Europe Timeline

  • Germans take the Rhineland

  • Alliance between Germany and Italy

  • Germany annexes Austria

  • Germany annexes Czechoslovakia

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Germany attacks Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks Netherlands and France

  • Germany takes Paris

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Battle of Britain ends

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and US enters war

  • British win Battle of El Alamein over Germany

  • USSR wins Battle of Stalingrad

  • Allies win Battle of Anzio and take Rome

  • D-Day

  • 2 millions Allied forces are in France

  • Battle of the Bulge begins

  • USSR takes Berlin

  • Germany surrenders