World War II Timeline By beeexo Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Period: Jan 30, 1933 to Sep 2, 1945 World War II Timeline Sep 29, 1938 Munich Agreement "phony war" Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland May 26, 1940 Miracle at Dunkirk Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Apr 1, 1945 Battle of Okinawa (on the Okinawa beach) May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day Aug 6, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagaskai Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders, End of WWII