World War 2 Timeline/ Shea Kestler

By kestlersr

  • World War 2 began.

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks western Europe

  • The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union.

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War 2

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt

  • First allied bombing raid on German cities.

  • Operation Overlord, D-Day. Allied Invasion of Normandy.

  • July Bomb Plot failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.

  • Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.

  • Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.

  • The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.

  • American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.

  • Hitler committed suicide.

  • Germany surrendered ending the war in Europe.

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets.

  • End of War World 2

  • Nuremberg war crimes trial began.