World War II Timeline By berad10 Mar 12, 1931 Japanese Invasion of Manchuria Mar 12, 1938 Austrian Anschluss Sep 30, 1938 Munich agreement and addition of Sudetenland to Germany and then the invasion of the rest of Czchoslovakia Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact Sep 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland Apr 9, 1940 Invasion of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Jul 1, 1940 Battle of Brittain Sep 15, 1940 Japanese invasion of French Indochina Jan 1, 1941 Invasion of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia !941-1942 Jan 1, 1941 The fall of the Philippines 1941-1942 Jun 22, 1941 Invasion of Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Creations of the United Nations Jan 1, 1942 Internment of Japanese and Japanese-americans Apr 18, 1942 The Doolittle Raid May 4, 1942 The Battle of Coral Sea Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 17, 1942 The Battle of Stalingrad Aug 7, 1942 Invasion of Guadalcanal Nov 8, 1942 Americans Land in Africa Feb 1, 1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass Sep 3, 1943 Invasion of Italy Nov 20, 1943 Invasion of Tarawa Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Oct 23, 1944 The Battle of Leyte Gulf Dec 16, 1944 The Battle of the Bulge Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1959 Nuremberg Trials Feb 19, 1945 Invasion of Iwo Jima Apr 1, 1945 Invasion of Okinawa Apr 16, 1945 The fall of Berlin May 8, 1945 V-E Day Aug 6, 1945 Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945 V-J Day Aug 8, 1945 Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima Sep 3, 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo