WWII Events By seanoo24 Aug 23, 1914 Germany Attacks France Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland Dec 5, 1939 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union May 14, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Aug 27, 1940 Hitler takes over the Balkans Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Formation of the U.N. Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Jun 8, 1942 Guadalcanal Jul 7, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Oct 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s Death Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini’s Assassination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide May 8, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Aug 8, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Sep 8, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 27, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 22, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
