WW2 Timeline

By Big Antwon

  • Spanish Civil War ended

  • US declares neutrality

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Nazis and Soviets divide Poland

  • France signs an armistice with the Germans

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan

  • First Japanese warship sunk by US

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations

  • Chester Nimitz appointed Commander and Chief of the US Pacific theater

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Bataan Death March begins

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz

  • Japanese invade Singapore

  • U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal

  • Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal

  • First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies

  • Allies take Tunisia

  • Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

  • D-Day Landings

  • Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied forces

  • United Nations is officially born