World War Timeline by Natavius Tapp

By tappns

  • September 1, 1939

    Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.

  • October 12, 1939

    Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland.

  • November 23, 1939

    Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.

  • April 9, 1940

    Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.

  • May 20, 1940

    Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.

  • July 10, 1940

    Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.

  • September 28-29, 1941

    4,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev

  • December 7, 1941

    The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US entered World War II on the side of the Allies.

  • December 11, 1941

    United States declares war on Japan and Germany.

  • March 17, 1942

    Extermination begins in Belzec; by the end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.

  • May 1942

    Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered.

  • April 19, 1943

    Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June.

  • September 3, 1943

    Italy surrendered to the Allies, however Germany helped Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.

  • October 14, 1943

    Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp.

  • March 19, 1944

    Germany occupies Hungary.

  • June 6, 1944

    D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy.

  • October 7, 1944

    Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up.

  • November 8, 1944

    Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.

  • December 16, 1944

    The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies, sealing the fate of the German army.

  • April 12, 1945

    US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.

  • April 30, 1945

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.

  • May 7, 1945

    Germany surrenders to the Allies.

  • August 6, 1945

    The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.

  • August 9, 1945

    Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • September 2, 1945

    Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies. World War 2 has ended.