ww2 timeline by kassidy matthews

By kassimatthews

  • September 1, 1939- WWII Begins

  • September 3, 1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • September 17, 1939 The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.

  • September 27–29, 1939 Warsaw surrenders and russian government flees

  • April 9, 1940–June 9, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

  • June 10, 1940 Italy enters the war.

  • September 27, 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

  • June 22, 1941–November 1941 Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union.

  • December 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • December 8, 1941 The United States declares war on Japan

  • December 11–13, 1941 Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • June 1942 British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.

  • September 12, 1944 Finland concludes an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis partnership.

  • October 20, 1944 US troops land in the Philippines.

  • December 16, 1944 The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge

  • March 7, 1945 US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.

  • April 16, 1945 The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.

  • April 1945 Partisan units, led by Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Tito, capture Zagreb and topple the Ustasa regime

  • April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide.

  • May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

  • May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the Soviets.

  • May 1945 Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands.

  • August 6, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • August 8, 1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.

  • August 9, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

  • Sep 2, 1945 - WWII ends