Timeline: WWII Final | Timetoast

Feb 29, 1936

1936 Neutrality Act
Mar 7, 1936

German Troops Occupy the Rhineland
May 9, 1936

Italy Takesover Ethiopia
Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939

Spanish Civil War
Aug 1, 1936

Olympics in Berlin
Sep 26, 1936

Four Year Plan Begins

*date is uncertain because there is no credible source to indicate a specfic day
Oct 1, 1936

Franco Becomes Leader of Spain
Nov 1, 1936

Rome-Berlin Axis Created
Nov 25, 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact Signed
May 1, 1937

1937 Neutrality Act
Jun 7, 1937

Stalin Purges the Red Army
Jul 7, 1937

Japan Invades China
Oct 5, 1937

Roosevelt Gives Quarantine Speech
Dec 12, 1937

Yangtze River Attack
Mar 12, 1938

Anschluss
May 14, 1938

Pact of Steel
May 26, 1938

Maginot Line Finished
Sep 30, 1938

Munich Agreement
Nov 10, 1938

Night of the Broken Glass

Lasted overnight and into the next day.
Aug 23, 1939

Nazi Soviet Act
Aug 24, 1939

Emergency Powers Act
Sep 1, 1939

Plan White
Sep 3, 1939

England and France Declare War on Germany
Period: Sep 3, 1939 to May 7, 1945

Battle For the Atlantic
Sep 12, 1939

Phoney War Begins (Ends 8 months later)

*date that it began is not included
Nov 30, 1939

Russia Attacks Finland
Apr 9, 1940

Germany Invades Norway
May 26, 1940

Plan Yellow
Period: May 27, 1940 to Jun 4, 1940

Operation Dynamo
Jun 17, 1940

France Falls to Germany
Jun 29, 1940

Alien Registration Act
Jul 5, 1940

Export Control Act
Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Aug 31, 1940

Battle of Britain
Sep 7, 1940

Germans Bomb London
Sep 16, 1940

Burke- Wadsworth Bill
Sep 17, 1940

Operation Sea Lion Planned

Two part attack,
phase 1: massive bombings
phase two: ferry across boats/ troops to England
Only half of the attack happened
Oct 28, 1940

Italy Attacks Greece
Nov 5, 1940

FDR Wins Reelection
Dec 29, 1940

Arsenal of Democracy
Mar 11, 1941

Lend/ Lease Act
Period: Jun 22, 1941 to Jan 7, 1942

Operation Barbarossa
Jul 9, 1941

Enigma Cracked By the British
Aug 14, 1941

Atlantic Charter Conference
Period: Sep 8, 1941 to Jan 27, 1944

Seige of Leningrad
Period: Oct 2, 1941 to Jan 7, 1942

Operation Typhoon
Dec 2, 1941

Arcadia Conference
Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor
Dec 8, 1941

US Declares War on Japan
Dec 11, 1941

US Declares War on Germany and Japan
Feb 19, 1942

Executive Order 9066
Mar 23, 1942

Atlantic Wall Creation
Period: Apr 10, 1942 to Apr 16, 1942

Bataan Death March
Apr 18, 1942

Doolittle's Raid
May 4, 1942

Battle of Coral Sea

Four days long
Period: May 4, 1942 to May 8, 1942

Battle of Midway
Period: Jun 3, 1942 to Aug 15, 1942

Battle of the Aleutian Islands
Period: Aug 7, 1942 to Feb 9, 1943

Battle of Guadalcanal
Period: Aug 23, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943

Battle of Stalingrad
Period: Oct 23, 1942 to Nov 5, 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Period: Nov 8, 1942 to Nov 11, 1942

Operation Torch
Jan 14, 1943

Casablanca Conference
Period: Jul 9, 1943 to Aug 17, 1943

Italian Campaign
Period: Jul 10, 1943 to Aug 2, 1943

Operation Husky
Oct 13, 1943

Italy Joins Allies
Nov 20, 1943

Battle of Tawara
Nov 28, 1943

Tehran Conference
Period: Jan 17, 1944 to May 18, 1944

Battle of Monte Cassino
Period: Jun 6, 1944 to Aug 25, 1944

Operation Overlord
Period: Jun 15, 1944 to Jul 9, 1944

Battle of Saipan
Jul 20, 1944

Valkyrie
Aug 25, 1944

Paris Liberated
Period: Oct 20, 1944 to Aug 15, 1945

Fight for the Phillipines
Oct 23, 1944

Battle of Leyte Gulf
Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Battle of the Bulge
Dec 18, 1944

Korematsu vs. US
Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference
Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

Iwo Jima
Period: Apr 1, 1945 to Jun 15, 1945

Battle of Okinawa (Operation Iceburg)
Apr 12, 1945

FDR Dies
Apr 28, 1945

Mussolini Is Killed
Apr 28, 1945

Truman Briefed on Manhattan Project
Apr 30, 1945

Hitler Commits Suicide
May 2, 1945

Allies Liberate Rome
May 8, 1945

VE Day
Aug 6, 1945

Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima
Aug 9, 1945

Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
Aug 9, 1945

Soviets Declare War on Japan
Sep 2, 1945

VJ Day
Oct 24, 1945

United Nations is Created
Nov 20, 1945

Nuremberg Trials Begin