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Start of World War II
Germany invades Poland, England and France then declare war on Germany -
Soviets invade Finland
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Finland signs peace treaty with the USSR
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
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Holland surrenders to the Nazis
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis
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German bombing against airfields and factories in England
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President Roosevelt signs the lend-lease act
The lend-lease act provided military aid to foregin countries -
The German bomb London and Britain bomb Hamburg
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The United States freeze German and Italian assets in America
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The first experimental use of the gas chamber was done in Auschwitz
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev which was overtaken by the Nazis just 10 days before
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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The United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Hitler declares war on the United States
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Hitler takes complete control over the German army
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Mass murder of jews by gassing at Auschwitz begin
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Battle of Stalingrad starts
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Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago
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Germany surrenders at Stalingrad in their first big defeat
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Mussolini is arrested and the Italian fascist government falls
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D-Day landing in northern France
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End of World War II
