ww2 time line By Hagan Green123 Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust May 12, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 world war 2 May 10, 1940 Germany attacks France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Sep 28, 1940 Battle of Britain Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Apr 30, 1941 Hitler takes over the Balkans Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Dec 19, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Jan 1, 1942 Formation of the U.N. Feb 19, 1942 japanese internment camps Jun 7, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 1, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Aug 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 FDR death Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini’s assassination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Apr 30, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Apr 30, 1945 Cold War Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of hiroshima & nagasaki Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan Jul 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 17, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis