The Best WWII Timeline in Lego

The Best WWII Timeline

Period: Jan 1, 1939 to Dec 31, 1945

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

England & France declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Russia invades Poland

Sep 17, 1939

Phony War

Period: Sep 21, 1939 to Apr 28, 1940

Time of preparation for the coming World War

France is taken by Germany

Jun 22, 1940

Battle of Britain starts

Aug 3, 1940

Ends October 30, 1940

Operation Barbarossa

Period: Jun 2, 1941 to Jun 19, 1941

Germany invades Russia and attacks Stalingrad and Moscow

Germany invades Russia

Jun 22, 1941

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

England & US declare war the next day, December 8, 1941

Triple Axis powers declare war on US

Dec 11, 1941

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Allied forces land on beaches of Normandy to push Germany out of France

Battle of Berlin

Period: Apr 15, 1945 to May 2, 1945

Russia's Red Army sends troops and artillery to attack Berlin

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Germany surrenders

May 7, 1945

Victory in Europe (VE) Day

May 8, 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

Bombing of Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Victory in Japan (VJ) Day

Aug 14, 1945