WWII Events Timeline By yadirar378 Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Jun 30, 1934 Night of the Long Knives Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill ; Prime Minister of Britain May 10, 1940 Germany attacks France Jun 1, 1940 Battle of Britain Jun 10, 1940 Lend-Lease Act Apr 6, 1941 Hilter takes over the Balkans Jun 22, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Feb 1, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 1, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Aug 22, 1942 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 28, 1945 Mussolini"s Assassination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler's suicide May 1, 1945 Cold War Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Oct 18, 1945 Nuremberg Trials Oct 24, 1945 Formation of the U.N Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Sep 8, 1951 McArthur's plan for Japan Aug 12, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 22, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis