World War II Timeline Project By madelynek Jul 7, 1937 World War II Begins Jul 15, 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp is opened 1938 Flossenburg concentration camp opens Jul 6, 1938 Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees Aug 8, 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria Sep 30, 1938 Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia. Nov 12, 1938 Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands Nov 15, 1938 All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools Mar 15, 1939 Germans occupy Czechoslovakia. May 18, 1939 Ravensbruck concentration camp opens. Sep 1, 1939 Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland Oct 28, 1939 First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow. Nov 23, 1939 Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star. Apr 9, 1940 Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway. May 20, 1940 Concentration camp established at Auschwitz. Period: Jan 21, 1941 to Jan 26, 1941 Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered. 1943 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad Oct 14, 1943 Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp 1944 Last Jews deported from Terezin to Auschwitz. Mar 19, 1944 Germany occupies Hungary. Jul 20, 1944 Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler. Oct 7, 1944 Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz Jan 17, 1945 Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide May 8, 1945 World War II ends