WW2 Timeline

Anschluss (ET)

Mar 12, 1938

Unification of Austria and Germany

Munich Conference (ET)

Sep 29, 1938

Great Britain and France give Hitler Sudetenland

Non-Aggression Pact (ET)

Aug 23, 1939

Germany and USSR agree not to fight

Germany Invades Poland (ET)

Sep 1, 1939

Start of WW2

Miracle at Dunkirk (ET)

Jun 4, 1940

338,000 troops escape German capture

Paris Captured (ET)

Jun 24, 1940

France surrenders to Germany

Battle of Britain (ET)

Jul 12, 1940

3 month bombing of Great Britain

Germany Invades USSR (ET)

Jun 22, 1941

Violates Nonaggression Treaty

Pearl Harbor (PT)

Dec 7, 1941

Japan unprovoked attack of US

US Declares War on Japan (PT)

Dec 8, 1941

Hitler allied with Japan and they hoped for help against USSR

Germany Declares War on the US (ET)

Dec 11, 1941

FDR makes speech to congress "..a date that will live in infamy"

Doolittle Raid (PT)

Apr 12, 1942

American bombs fall in Japan for first time

Battle of Midway (PT)

Jun 4, 1942

Island captured by US Marines Raise Flag

Battle of Stalingrad (ET)

Feb 2, 1943

10 month battle ends Turning point of the War

Kasserine Pass (ET)

Feb 19, 1943

First US Battle against Germany (Bad loss)

Rome Falls (ET)

May 15, 1944

Italy surrenders and Mussolini is executed

D-Day (ET)

Jun 6, 1944

Allies land at Normandy - Liberation of France

MacArthur Returns to Philippines (PT)

Oct 20, 1944

Famous speech "I have returned"

Battle of Bulge (ET)

Dec 16, 1944

Last German Offense - Allies Win

Iwo Jima (PT)

Feb 19, 1945

Turning point in war with Japan

V-E Day (ET)

May 8, 1945

WW2 ends in Europe

Atomic Bomb Dropped (PT)

Sep 6, 1945

Over 120,000 die at Hiroshima

V-J Day (PT)

Sep 15, 1945

WW2 ends in Japan