World War II Timeline Assignment By Jared Grissom By Jared9 Period: Mar 27, 1939 to Dec 2, 1945 World War II Mar 28, 1939 Spanish Civil War Ended Sep 5, 1939 US declares neutrality Sep 29, 1939 Nazis and Soviets divide Poland Jun 22, 1940 France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany Sep 27, 1940 Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan. Mar 11, 1941 President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. Apr 17, 1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis. Jun 14, 1941 United States freezes German and Italian assets in America. Dec 7, 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor Jan 27, 1942 First Japanese submarine sunk by US Feb 9, 1942 Japanese invade Singapore Mar 24, 1942 Chester Nimitz appointed Commander and Chief of the US Pacific theater Mar 26, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz Apr 10, 1942 Bataan Death March begins Jul 22, 1942 First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps;Treblinka extermination camp Aug 21, 1942 U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal. Dec 31, 1942 Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of bloody fighting against U.S. Forces Feb 2, 1943 Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied forces Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. May 7, 1943 Allies take Tunisia. Jun 11, 1943 Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Landing Oct 24, 1945 United Nations is officially born
