World War II Timeline by Sergio Sanchez

  • Germany invades Poland, starting World War II

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

  • Italy declares war on France and Great Britain

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • United States begins its first peacetime draft

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pear Harbor

  • Germany and Italy declare war on United States

  • The Wannssee Conference takes place

  • Anne Frank and her family go into hiding

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • Allies invade North Africa

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union

  • Mussolini resigns

  • Italy surrenders

  • D-Day

  • Assasination attempt against Hitler fails

  • Anne Frank and her family are found

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • The United states drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • World War 2 ended