WWII Timeline

By dbudde

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Mussolini Comes to Power in Italy

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Decisive Soviet victory over Nazis

  • Stalin Launches Five-Year Plan

  • Hitler Named Chancellor

  • Dachau Opens

    The First Nazi Concentration Camp

  • Nuremburg Laws Passed

    Anti-Jewish Statutes Enacted by Germany

  • Spanish Civil War

    Lasted until April 1st, 1939

  • Austrian Anschluss

  • Germany Annexes Sudetenland

    http://www.spungenfoundation.org/archive/documents/frame04/f04.p12.pdf

  • Kristallnacht

    "Crystal Night"

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed

    German-Soviet Nonaggression pact

  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Germany invades Norway and Denmark

  • Auschwitz opened

    Estimated 2.1-2.5 million victims, number grows today

  • Stalin becomes Soviet Premier

    In power until 1953

  • Germany Invades Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese

    A day which will live in infamy.

  • British defeat the Germans

    At El Alamein

  • D-Day

    Invasion of Normandy

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Major German Offensive campaign

  • Auschwitz is Liberated

  • Yalta Conference

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Nuremburg Trials