Major Events of WWII By sexypanther69 Sep 18, 1931 Japan Seizes Manchurica Oct 3, 1935 Italy Seizes Ethiopia Mar 7, 1936 Hitler Invades Rhineland Mar 12, 1938 Anschluss (Annexation) of Austria by Germany Sep 30, 1938 Hitler Seizes Czechoslovakia Sep 30, 1938 Munich Pact Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) Aug 23, 1939 Nazi - Soviet Pact Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Attacks Poland Sep 10, 1939 Canada Declares War on Germany Period: May 10, 1940 to May 14, 1940 Fall of Holland, Belgium, and France May 27, 1940 Miracle at Dunkirk Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain May 27, 1941 Bismarck Sunk Jun 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Begins Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbour Dec 8, 1941 Invasion of Hong Kong Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Aug 19, 1942 Dieppe Raid Period: Jul 9, 1943 to Aug 17, 1943 Allied Troops Land in Sicily Period: Dec 20, 1943 to Dec 28, 1943 Battle of Ortona Jun 6, 1944 D-Day May 5, 1945 Canadian Soldiers Liberate Netherlands May 8, 1945 Germany Surrenders Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Aug 9, 1945 USA Bombs Hiroshima, Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan Surrenders