World War 2 from 1939-1942

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • World War II Begins

    France, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany
  • Soviet Union invades Poland

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

  • Lend-Lease Act

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia

  • US Oil Embargo

  • First use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Declaration of United Nations

  • Auschwitz first mass murder

  • First American forces arrive in Great Britain

  • First deportations from Warsaw to Concentration camps

  • Battle of Stalingrad