World War 2 Timeline By juliani.4 Jun 22, 1940 Germany Defeats France Germany invades France Jun 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Begins Germany invades Russia Dec 7, 1941 Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor America's involvement in WW2 begins 1942 Japanese Conquer Burma Jun 6, 1942 America Wins Battle at Midway US navy defeat Japanese Navy Feb 2, 1943 Germans Surrender at Stalingrad Jun 6, 1944 D-Day and Operation Overlord Largest assault in history on Normandy 1945 Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki May 2, 1945 Red Army takes Berlin