WWII Timeline By Ednnaaa Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Sep 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland Dec 22, 1939 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union May 10, 1940 Germany Attacts France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Jul 10, 1940 Battle Of Britain Oct 28, 1940 Hitler takes over the Balkans Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Feb 2, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Feb 19, 1942 Japanese internment camps Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Aug 7, 1942 Guadalcanal Oct 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Dec 1, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jan 1, 1945 Formation of the U.N. Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini’s assassination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Sep 25, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 31, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Dec 26, 1991 Cold War