World War II Timeline By megannguyen Jan 30, 1933 Hitler begins Nazi Policy of Anti-Semitism & Persecution in Germany and Australia(H) Jul 30, 1936 Germany invades Rhineland(E) Jul 30, 1936 Spanish Civil War begins(E) Nov 30, 1936 Japan signs the anti-comintern pact with Germany(P) Jul 30, 1937 Japan invades North China(P) Nov 30, 1938 Kristallnacht (Nazi pogroms) began in Germany and Austria(H) Mar 30, 1939 Germany invades Czechoslovakia(E) Sep 30, 1939 Jews forced to wear Yellow Star of David(H) Oct 30, 1939 Jews forced to move into Ghettos(H) Apr 30, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway(E) Dec 30, 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and invade Guam & Wake Island(P) Jan 30, 1942 Plan to exterminate Germany’s mentally ill approved(H) Feb 27, 1942 Singapore surrenders to Japan(P) May 30, 1942 Battle of Coral Sea takes place as Japan seizes Burma(P) Jun 30, 1942 Battle of Midway; Japan loses(P) Aug 30, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad begins(E) Jul 30, 1943 Invasion of Sicily and Benito Mussolini forced to resign(E) Jul 30, 1944 First concentration camp called Majdanek liberated(H) Aug 30, 1944 Allies liberate Paris, France(E) Jan 30, 1945 Auschwitz Concentration Camp liberated(H) Feb 27, 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima(E) Feb 27, 1945 Yalta Conference held(P) Apr 30, 1945 Soviets enter Berlin, Germany and Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide(H) Jul 30, 1945 Potsdam Conference held(P)
