World War II TImeline By moriahstars Aug 28, 1939 Germany and USSR Sign Non-Aggression Pact Sep 1, 1939 Invasion of Polnd Sep 3, 1939 Britain and France Declair War on Germany Oct 6, 1939 Hitler Declares Victory Over Poland and Calls for Peace with Britain and France Oct 14, 1939 Germany U-Boat Sinks HMS Royal Oak at Anchor in Scapa Flow Nov 8, 1939 Assassination on Hitler Fails Jan 8, 1940 Rationings of Butter, Sugar, and Bacon Begins in Britain Feb 12, 1940 Finland Signs Peace Treaty with Soviet Union May 15, 1940 Holland Surrenders to Germany Jun 14, 1940 German Army Enters Paris Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Begins Mar 11, 1941 Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act. Sep 3, 1941 The first gassings of prisoners occurs at Auschwitz. Sep 19, 1941 Germans forces take Kiev, along with 600,000 Soviet prisoners Dec 7, 1941 Japanese naval and air forces attack U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Dec 8, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan; Britain and dominions declare war on Japan. Feb 1, 1942 Mass deportations of Jews from Western Europe begins to extermination camps in Poland. Feb 19, 1942 Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans Apr 10, 1942 "Bataan Death March" begins. Apr 18, 1942 18 James Doolittle leads first U.S. bombing attack on Japan off aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Period: May 4, 1942 to May 8, 1942 4-8 Battle of the Coral Sea Jun 1, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz extermination camp. Jul 6, 1942 Anne Frank and family go into hiding in a secret annex above Otto Frank's factory in Amsterdam. Jul 22, 1942 Treblinka death camp opened in Poland; first deportations of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto to death camps. Sep 17, 1942 Col. Leslie Groves is assigned command of the Manhattan Project. Dec 17, 1942 Anthony Eden reports on mass executions of Jews by Nazis in the House of Commons. Jan 18, 1943 Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin uprising. May 16, 1943 Jewish resistance in Warsaw Ghetto ends. Jun 11, 1943 Himmler orders destruction of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
