WW2 By noahbaughman Apr 7, 1926 Mussolini’s assassination Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland Mar 10, 1940 Germany attacks France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Jun 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Jul 8, 1940 Hitler takes over the Balkans Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Jun 6, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Formation of the U.N. Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Aug 23, 1942 Battke of Stalingrad Aug 24, 1942 Japanese internment camps Oct 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Nov 23, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Apr 1, 1948 Marshall Plan