ww2 timeline

By Geiger Swanson

  • World War II begins.

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    WW2 Timespan

  • Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government.

  • Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia.

  • The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.

  • Italy surrenders to the Allies

  • D-day and the Normandy invasion.

  • US President Franklin Roosevelt dies.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.

  • Germany surrenders to the Allies.