WW2 Timeline Project

  • September 1

    September 1

    World war 2 begins
  • September 3

    September 3

    Britian and France declared war on Germany
  • September 17

    September 17

    Soviet Union invades Poland
  • May 26 - June 4

    May 26 - June 4

    Miracle of Dunkirk
  • June 11

    June 11

    Italy enters war on side of axis powers
  • August 12

    August 12

    Battle of Britain, concerted attack on British airfields was launched
  • June 22

    June 22

    Hitler attacks Russia operation Barbarossa
  • December 7

    December 7

    Surprise attack by imperial Japanese navy Air Force on Pearl Harbor
  • December 8

    December 8

    Britain and United States declared war on Japan
  • June 4

    June 4

    Battle of midway
  • June 6

    June 6

    Normandy landings, known as D-Day
  • January 28

    January 28

    Battle of the bulge ends
  • February 19

    February 19

    U.S. marines land on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima
  • March 29

    March 29

    The last bomb dropped on Britain
  • April 30

    April 30

    Adolf Hitler committed suicide as he knows Germany lost the war
  • May 8

    May 8

    Victory in Europe day
  • August 6

    August 6

    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  • August 9

    August 9

    U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
  • August 14

    August 14

    Japanese surrenders
  • September 2

    September 2

    World war 2 ends