WWII Event Timeline By jasmynanderson Sep 11, 1926 Mussolini’s assassination Period: Jan 6, 1933 to Jun 1, 2000 WWII Jan 8, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland Jun 10, 1940 Battle Of Britain Jun 22, 1940 Germany Acttacks France Dec 13, 1940 Hitler takes over the Balkans Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Jun 21, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Formation of the U.N. Feb 2, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Feb 21, 1942 Japanese internment camps Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 1, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Jul 17, 1945 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Aug 19, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials May 20, 1947 Cold War Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
