World War II by Owen

By Twosferalx

  • 1939 September 1

    Germany invades Poland

  • 1939 September 3

    France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • 1940 April 9 to June 9

    Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway

  • 1940 May 10 to June 22

    Germany starts using Blitzkriegs to take over western Europe

  • 1940 May 30

    Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government

  • 1940 June 10

    Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers

  • 1940 July 10

    Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain

  • 1940 September 22

    Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance

  • 1941 June 22

    Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops

  • 1941 December 7

    The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor.

  • 1942 June 4

    The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway

  • 1942 July 10

    The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily

  • 1943 September 3

    Italy surrenders to the Allies.

  • 1944 June 6

    D-Day and the Normandy invasion.

  • 1944 August 25

    Paris is liberated from German control

  • 1944 December 16

    The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge

  • 1945 February 19

    Us Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima

  • 1945 April 12

    US President Franklin Roosevelt dies

  • 1945 April 30

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war

  • 1945 May 7

    Germany surrenders to the Allies

  • 1945 August 6

    The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

  • 1945 August 9

    Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

  • 1945 September 2

    Japan surrenders to the Allies

  • 1945 September 2

    World War II ends