• Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Official start of WWII
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    United States enters the war
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    USSR defeats Germany in the Battle of Stalingrad
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Germans surrender

    Germans surrender

    Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II
  • US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    Japan surrenders.