World War 2 Timeline By AshleyHughes1 1939 German Blitzkrieg 1940 Battle of Britain Jun 14, 1940 Germany invaded France and captured Paris https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris 1941 Lend-Lease 1941 Operation Barbarossa Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 United States declares war on Japan and Germany after Pearl Harbor 1942 Battle of Midway 1942 Bataan Death March Aug 23, 1942 Stalingrad 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising 1944 D-Day Period: 1944 to 1945 Battle of the Bulge 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima 1945 Liberation of concentration camps