Timeline: Rowe World World II Timeline | Timetoast

Sep 19, 1931

Japan invades Manchuria
Aug 31, 1935

Neutrality Acts of the US
Oct 7, 1935

Italy takes over Ethopia
Jun 14, 1936

Hitler enters France
Mar 7, 1938

Anschluss of Austria

The Anschluss of union of Austria and Germany was demanded by Hitler, it violated the Versailles treaty and started a brief war,
Sep 29, 1938

Munich Conference

The Munich Conference was when Britain and France chose appeasement and made the Czechs surrender.
Mar 15, 1939

Hitler takes over Czecholsovakia

The Nazi Soviet Pact bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations. They divided up poland and other parts of Eastern Europe.
Aug 28, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Pact
Sep 1, 1939

Invasion of Poland
Sep 3, 1939

Genesis of WWII
Apr 10, 1940

Hitler launches blitzkreig on Norway and Belgium

Hitler orders a blitzkreig or "lighting war" on Norway and Belgium.
May 10, 1940

Hitler slams Netherlands and Belgium
May 10, 1940

Germany enteres France
Jun 5, 1940

France Falls
Period: Aug 10, 1940 to Sep 10, 1940

Operation Sea Lion and Blits on London.

Hitler invades britain.
Sep 10, 1940

Axis powers take over North Africa and the Balakns
May 10, 1941

Operation Sea Lion fails.
Jun 22, 1941

Hitler enacts Operation Barbossa

Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Soviet Union. He wanted There natural resources.
Sep 1, 1941

Germanys Siege of Leningrad
Dec 7, 1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

The reason America entered WWII. 2400 people killed.
Dec 8, 1941

U.S declares war on Japan.
Dec 11, 1941

Gedrmany and Italy declare war on the US
May 8, 1942

Japan loses the Battle of the Coral Sea

This allowed the US to move north.
Jun 7, 1942

Japan loses the Battle of Midway
Jul 17, 1942

Hitler launches new offensive on Stalingrad
Nov 28, 1942

The "Big 3" meet

Winston Churchill(England), F.D.R(USA), and Joseph Stalin(Russia) meet and decide to fioght the war in Europe then Japan.
Jan 2, 1943

Germany surrenders to Stalingrad
May 10, 1943

Allies seize North Africa
Sep 8, 1943

Itallians surrender to allies
Jan 1, 1944

Kamikaze Missions
Feb 4, 1944

Yalta Conference

The Big 3 decided to fight Japan/
Jun 6, 1944

D-day Assault

US invades France and defeats the Germans
Dec 13, 1944

Battle of the Bulge
Feb 4, 1945

Cold war begins
Feb 19, 1945

Battle of Iwojima
Mar 10, 1945

British and American forces cross Rhine/Battle of Okinawa
Apr 12, 1945

F.R.D dies, Trueman becomes president
Apr 26, 1945

Charter of the United Nations
Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide
May 7, 1945

Germany surrenders
May 8, 1945

V-E Day

The victory in Europe.
May 10, 1945

First test of the Manhattan Project/Trueman warns Japan to surrender

Trueman warbed japan about this project. It was a code name for the a-bomb.
Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Aug 9, 1945

US drops a bomb on Heroshima and Nagasaki

US drops a bomb on Heroshima and Nagasaki after Japan refuses to surrender twice.
Aug 10, 1945

Japan surrenders
Sep 2, 1945

Formal peace treaty signed on the American Battleship Missouri
Nov 10, 1945

Nuremberg Trials
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine adopted

A doctrine written to contain communism.
Jun 3, 1947

Marshall Plan enacted

The US offered money/ aid packages to help countries rebuild to beat communism,
Jun 10, 1947

The Division of Germany

The soviets controlled East Germany.
Jun 13, 1947

The Berlin Airlift
Apr 4, 1949

NATO signed

Countries pledged to help another if any one of them were attacked.
May 14, 1955

Warsaw Pact

The soviets responded to NATO and formed their own millitary alliances.