WW2 timeline

  • Holocaust starts

    Genocide of Jews started
  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler's invasion of Poland marked the beginning of WW2 throughout Europe
  • Paris falls to the Nazis

    Paris falls to German forces. France surrenders 11 days after.
  • Tripartite pact created

    Japan, Italy and Germany sign the Tripartite pact, creating an alliance between the 3
  • Pearl Harbor attack

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Hitler declared war on the US 4 days later
  • Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders to the allies
  • Evacuation of Auschwitz

    Jews were evacuated from Auschwitz
  • Hitler Kills himself

    Hitler swallowed cyanide and then shot himself and his wife in the head, in his underground bunker
  • WW2 ends

    WW2 ends in Europe
  • Hiroshima Bomb

    US drops Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan