WWII Events By Lilly Burke Mar 29, 1939 Spanish Civil War ended Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland Sep 5, 1939 United States proclaims its neutrality Sep 29, 1939 Nazis and Soviets divide Poland Jun 22, 1940 France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany Sep 27, 1940 Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan Mar 11, 1941 President Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act Apr 17, 1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis Jul 26, 1941 Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations Dec 7, 1941 Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor Jan 27, 1942 First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine Feb 8, 1942 Japanese invade Singapore This lasted until February 9th, 1942 Mar 24, 1942 Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Theater Apr 9, 1942 Bataan Death March begins Jun 1, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Aschwitz Jul 22, 1942 First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp Aug 21, 1942 U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies May 7, 1943 Allies take Tusnia Jun 11, 1943 Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland Jun 6, 1944 D-Day landings on the northern coast of France May 7, 1945 Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied Forces Aug 12, 1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of fighting against U.S. forces Oct 24, 1945 United Nations is officially born
