WWII Events Timeline By ThomasSanchez1015 Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 27, 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 Sep 15, 1940 Battle of Britian Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act May 21, 1941 Hitler takes over the Balkans Dec 1, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Feb 19, 1942 Japanese internment camps Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 1, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Feb 2, 1943 Battle of Stalingrad Nov 23, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Feb 4, 1945 Cold War Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death 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 8, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Oct 1, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Oct 24, 1945 Formation of the U.N. Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan May 12, 1949 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 15, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
