WWII By eroark17 Mar 15, 1939 Nazis take Czechoslovakia. Aug 23, 1939 Nazis and Soviets sign Pact Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland Sep 17, 1939 Soviets invade Poland May 15, 1940 Holland surrenders to the Nazis Jul 1, 1940 German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic Aug 13, 1940 German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England. Sep 3, 1940 Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain). Mar 11, 1941 President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. Jun 14, 1941 United States freezes German and Italian assets in America. Jul 3, 1941 Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy. Sep 19, 1941 Nazis take Kiev. Sep 29, 1941 Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev. Dec 19, 1941 Hitler takes complete control of the German Army. Jan 13, 1942 Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA. Jul 9, 1942 Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR. Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. Jul 19, 1943 Allies bomb Rome Sep 12, 1943 Germans rescue Mussolini Jan 6, 1944 Soviet troops advance into Poland. Aug 4, 1944 Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland Oct 2, 1944 Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans. Jan 17, 1945 Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland Jan 26, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Apr 16, 1945 Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg May 2, 1945 German troops in Italy surrender Jun 5, 1945 Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan Oct 24, 1945 United Nations is born Nov 20, 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.