Timeline: WWII Timeline

Nov 11, 1918

German Defeat

World War 1 ends with German Defeat.

Jul 18, 1925

Hitler's Book is published "Mein Kampf"

Oct 29, 1929

Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.

Aug 2, 1934

German President Hindenburg dies.

Oct 2, 1935

Fascist

Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

May 9, 1936

Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.

Aug 1, 1936

Olympic games begin in Berlin.

Nov 25, 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.

Apr 7, 1939

Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

Sep 1, 1939

Germans Invade Poland

Sep 5, 1939

The U.S.

The United States publicly declares neutrality

Sep 27, 1940

Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

Feb 9, 1941

Churchill

Churchill again pleads with the US: "give us the tools."

Mar 1, 1941

Bulgaria joins the Axis.

Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

The bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Jul 5, 1943

The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets blunt the attack within a week and begin an offensive initiative of their own.

Nov 6, 1943

Soviet troops liberate Kiev.

Jun 6, 1944

Normandy Landing

On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”