WWII Events Timeline By joecastillo Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 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 Jul 1, 1940 Battle of Britain Mar 1, 1941 Lend-Lease Act May 20, 1941 Hitler takes over the Balkans Jun 1, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Interment Camps Jun 1, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 1, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Aug 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 1, 1944 D-Day Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R'S Death Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini's Assasination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Aug 1, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Aug 2, 1945 Potsdamn Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Cold War Oct 1, 1945 Formation of the U.N. Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
