WWII By Zack Messer Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust to May 8th, 1945 Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland May 10, 1940 Germany attacks France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Oct 28, 1940 Hitler takes over the Balkans Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Jun 22, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Feb 19, 1942 Japanese internment camps Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Oct 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Feb 2, 1943 Battle of Stalingrad Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R's death Apr 25, 1945 Formation of the U.N. 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 Sep 2, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Jan 1, 1947 Cold War Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Oct 14, 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall
