World War II Timeline By- Justin Beanblossom By beanblossomjl Sep 1, 1939 World War II Begins Sep 3, 1939 Britain and France Declare War On Germany Sep 14, 1939 Soviet Union Takes Out League Of Nations Sep 17, 1939 Red Army Invades Poland In Accordance With Nazi- Soviet Pact Sep 27, 1939 Warsaw Falls To The Nazis Mar 12, 1940 Finland Signs Peace Treaty With Soviet Union May 15, 1940 Holland capitulates to Nazis May 28, 1940 Belgium capitulates to Nazis Jun 14, 1940 Nazis take Paris Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Aug 13, 1940 Luftwaffe begins raids on British airfields and aircraft factories Sep 1, 1940 German Army Invades Poland Oct 28, 1940 Italian Army attacks Greece Apr 9, 1942 Germany Army Invades Denmark And Norway Jun 10, 1942 Norway capitulates to Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France Aug 3, 1942 Italian Army invades British Somaliland Sep 16, 1942 Military conscription introduced in United States Dec 9, 1942 British counter-attack begins against Italian Army in North Africa Sep 7, 1943 German "blitz" on British cities begins in earnest May 26, 1944 "Miracle at Dunkirk" Jun 14, 1944 Nazis take Paris Dec 30, 1944 Civil war erupts in Greece; Japanese retreat in Burma May 2, 1945 All German forces in Italy surrender May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe (VE) Day Jul 16, 1945 First U.S. atomic bomb tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico; Potsdam Conference begins Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima Aug 15, 1945 Victory over Japan (VJ) Day Sep 2, 1945 9/2/1945 Japanese delegation signs instrument of surrender battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay Nov 20, 1945 nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal Begins Nov 16, 1946 Hermann Goring commits suicide-- 11 other war battles started AKA IT ENDED
