World War 2 By treym14 Nov 16, 1939 Stalin Attacks Findland Jan 1, 1940 Holocaust The mass murder of millions and jews. May 1, 1940 Germany Attacks France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister Jul 30, 1940 Battle of Britain Germanys attempt to gain air superiority over Britain. Germany failed Sep 1, 1940 Germany Invades Poland Jan 7, 1941 HItler takes oover Balkans Jan 10, 1941 Lend-Lease Act May 16, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbour Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 17, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Nov 8, 1943 Teheren COnference Jun 6, 1944 D-day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R's Death Franklin D. Roosevelt died. Apr 30, 1945 Hitlers suicide Jul 1, 1945 postdam confernece Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Oct 1, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Jan 1, 1947 Cold War Jan 8, 1947 The Marshall Plan Jun 27, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis