WWII Timeline By bartonbri02 Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI Jan 10, 1920 Founding of the League of Nations Jun 28, 1920 Treaty of Versailles Oct 29, 1929 US Stock Market Crash Sep 19, 1931 Japan Invades Manchuria 1933 Hitler Takes Power in Germany 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis Formed 1936 German Occupation of the Rhineland Jul 17, 1936 Spanish Civil War 1937 Rape of Nanking 1938 Munich Conference 1939 Great Britain and France Declare War on Germany Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact Sep 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland Nov 30, 1939 Winter War 1940 Lend-Lease Begins Sep 7, 1940 London Blitz Aug 14, 1941 Atlantic Charter Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack 1942 Battle of Stalingrad 1942 Final Solution Implementation May 8, 1942 Manila Falls to Japan Jun 4, 1942 Battle of the Midway Jul 9, 1943 Invasion of Sicily Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 Normandy Invasion Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 FDR dies-Truman becomes president May 8, 1945 V-E Day Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 V-J Day