WW2 started September 1, 1939 and ended September 2, 1945

By SidraLMA

  • Nazi German troops march into the Sudetenland. Without the support of their alleged allies, France and Britain, the Czechoslovakians are powerless against Adolf Hitler's army.

  • Germany invaded Poland

  • Canada declares war on Germany

  • Winston Chuchill becomes Prime Minister

  • Dunkirk: Following the fall of France the survivors of the British Expeditionary Force and other allied forces were evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic

  • Instructions given by Hitler and Goring to prepare for the Final Solution

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor forced the US into the war at the same time when Hitler was stopped near Moscow. Since then, the final outcome of the war was inevitable. It was just a matter of time.

  • Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat

  • The battle of Midway begins

  • Germans rescue Mussolini who re-establishes a Fascist government

  • End of siege of Leningrad

  • After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France - Operation Neptune/Overlord

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Nagasaki hit by A-bomb

  • WW2 ends

  • V-J Day—Japanese sign surrender terms aboard battleship Missouri

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