WW2 Timeline By cassidy2717 Nov 11, 1918 WW1 Ends Jan 10, 1920 League of Nations founded Jun 21, 1920 Treaty of Versailles Oct 29, 1929 U.S stock market crash Feb 27, 1932 Japan invades Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany 1936 German occupation of the Rhineland Dec 13, 1937 Rape of nanking Sep 29, 1938 Munich conference Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-soviet pact Sep 3, 1939 Great Britain and France declare war Oct 6, 1939 German invasion of Poland Mar 13, 1940 Winter War Aug 14, 1941 Alantic charter Dec 7, 1941 pearl harbor attack Feb 2, 1942 Battle of stalingrad Jun 7, 1942 Battle of the midway Aug 17, 1943 Invasion of Sicily Dec 1, 1943 Tehran conference Jun 6, 1944 Normandy Invasion Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge Feb 11, 1945 Yalta conference May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders Aug 6, 1945 Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japanese surrender 1949 Rome-Berlin axis