World War II Timeline by Jenna Hicks By jenna_hicks98 Sep 1, 1939 Begin Of World War II Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe Sep 17, 1939 Sovet Union Occupies Poland from the East Oct 8, 1939 Germans Establish a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski Apr 9, 1940 Germany Invades Denmark and Norway Jul 10, 1940 Batle of Britain Begins Nov 30, 1940 Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto Apr 6, 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Jul 6, 1941 Einsatzagruppen( mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort Aug 3, 1941 Biship Clemens denounces the "euthanasia" killing program Sep 28, 1941 Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev Nov 7, 1941 Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the US declares war the next day Dec 8, 1941 The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland Dec 11, 1941 Nazi Germany declares war on the United States Jan 16, 1942 Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center Mar 27, 1942 Germans begin deportation on 65,000 Jews from Drancy to the East Jun 21, 1942 Germans take Tobruk Nov 8, 1942 Allied forces land in North Africa Jan 27, 1943 American 8th Air Force conducts its first raid against Germany May 12, 1943 The North African campaign of WWII ends as German forces surrender Jul 20, 1944 Assassination attempt against Hitler—fails Aug 25, 1944 Germans surrender Paris Oct 21, 1944 Allies take Aachen, Germany Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin; Karl Dönitz appointed leader of Germany
