Timeline of Major Military Invasions, Capitulations, and Declarations of War in WW2

Japan invades Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

Italy invades Ethiopia

Oct 2, 1935

Japan invades China

Jul 7, 1937

Italy invades Albania

Apr 7, 1939

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Start of WW2 in Europe. Great Britain and France declare war on Germany as a result of the invasion.

USSR invades Poland

Sep 17, 1939

Poland surrenders

Sep 27, 1939

USSR invades Finland

Nov 30, 1939

Germany invades Denmark and Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Germany invades west Europe

May 10, 1940

France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands invaded.

France Surrenders

Jun 22, 1940

Italy invades Allied controlled Egypt

Sep 13, 1940

Italy invades Greece

Oct 28, 1940

Axis invades Yugoslavia

Apr 17, 1941

Axis invades the USSR

Jun 22, 1941

US declares war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Japan expands control in the Pacific by invading colonial possessions such as the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore.

Axis declares war on the US

Dec 11, 1941

Italy surrenders

Sep 9, 1943

France liberated

Aug 25, 1944

Germany surrenders

May 9, 1945

Japan surrenders

Sep 2, 1945