world history By cristian Paredes By cparedes Period: May 27, 1938 to Aug 27, 1945 WW2 Sep 30, 1938 Treaty of Munish Mar 15, 1939 Hitler invades Czechoslovakia Apr 4, 1939 Britain rearms and reassures Poland Aug 27, 1939 Russia and Germany sign pact Sep 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland Sep 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany Sep 27, 1939 Hitler invades Denmark and Norway May 26, 1940 Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) Jun 11, 1940 Italy enter war on side of Axis powers Jun 22, 1940 France signs armistice with Germany Jul 31, 1940 Battle of Britain Dec 15, 1940 British rout Italians in N. Africa Jan 15, 1941 Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia Jun 22, 1941 Hitler attacks Russia - Operation Barbarossa Sep 22, 1941 Tripartite Pact a allience pact between germany, italy & Japan Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 15, 1942 usa won the Battle of Midway Nov 15, 1942 russians won the Battle of Stalingrad May 12, 1943 Axis surrender N Africa Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jun 15, 1944 Rome liberated Aug 25, 1944 Paris liberated Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 unconditional surrender from germany Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 8, 1945 Russia declares war on Japan Aug 9, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Aug 14, 1945 Japanese surrender