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

  • 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