wwII By SamBrenneman Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria May 1, 1936 Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia Jul 7, 1937 Japan invades China Apr 15, 1939 Fascist Italy invades and Albania Apr 9, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway Jun 21, 1940 Italy invades southern France Sep 27, 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact Jun 22, 1941 Nazi Germany and the rest of the Axis power invade the Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor May 13, 1943 Axis forces in Tunisia surrender, ending the Axis's North African campaign Jun 6, 1944 British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France Dec 16, 1944 The start of Germanys last offensive in the west, The Battle of the Bulge Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders Aug 6, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Aug 9, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan formally surrenders