WW2 TIMELINE By yictitan Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland Jan 10, 1940 Germany attacks France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act May 20, 1941 Hitler takes over the Balkans Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Dec 14, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Oct 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Dec 1, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini’s assassination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan
