WWII Project By pmuise Aug 2, 1934 Hitler Appoints Himself Führer Mar 16, 1935 Hitler Begins Rearmament Jul 7, 1937 Japan Invades China Mar 12, 1938 German Forces Enter and Occupy Austria Sep 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland, Starting WW2 Sep 27, 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan Sign Tripartite Pact, Solidifying Axis Powers Jun 22, 1941 Germany and Axis Powers Attack Russia (Operation Barbarossa) Dec 7, 1941 Japanese Surprise Aerial Attack on Pearl Harbor Jun 7, 1942 Battle of Midway (United States victory over Japan) Jul 10, 1942 Allied Powers Take Sicily Sep 3, 1943 Italy Surrenders to Allied Powers, Mussolini Escapes With Help of Germany Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion of Normandy Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge (German Failed Attack Allied Powers) Feb 19, 1945 Island of Iwo Jima is Captured by US Marines Apr 12, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt Dies, Harry Truman Replaces Him as President Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide May 7, 1945 Germany Officially Surrenders to Allied Powers May 8, 1945 VE Day Aug 6, 1945 U.S. Drops First Atomic Bomb on the Japanese City, Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Second Atomic Bomb is Dropped by U.S. on Nagasaki, Another Japanese City Sep 2, 1945 Japan Surrenders to US and Official End to War