WW2 Timeline By Big Antwon 1939 Spanish Civil War ended Sep 5, 1939 US declares neutrality Sep 17, 1939 Nazis invade Poland Sep 29, 1939 Nazis and Soviets divide Poland Jun 22, 1940 France signs an armistice with the Germans Sep 27, 1940 Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan Jan 25, 1941 First Japanese warship sunk by US Mar 11, 1941 President Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act Mar 25, 1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis Jul 26, 1941 Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations Dec 7, 1941 Chester Nimitz appointed Commander and Chief of the US Pacific theater Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor 1942 Bataan Death March begins 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz Feb 8, 1942 Japanese invade Singapore Aug 21, 1942 U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal Dec 31, 1942 Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal 1943 First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies May 7, 1943 Allies take Tunisia Jun 21, 1943 Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Landings May 7, 1945 Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied forces Oct 24, 1945 United Nations is officially born