WWII Timeline By alyssaL02 1918 World War I ends Period: 1918 to 1945 WWII Events Timeline 1919 League of Nations was Formed 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1929 US Stock Market Crash 1931 Japan Invades Manchuria 1933 Hitler Takes Power in Germany 1936 German Occupation of Rhineland 1936 Spanish Civil War 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis Formed 1937 Rape of Nanking 1938 Munich Conference 1938 Munich Pact Signed 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939 Winter war 1939 German Invades Poland 1939 Great Britain and France Declare War 1940 London Blitz 1941 Lend-Lease Begins 1941 Final Solution Implemented 1941 Atlantic Charter 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack 1942 Battle of Midway 1943 Invasion of Sicily 1943 Tehran Conference 1945 V-J day Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki Bombng Aug 9, 1945 Nuclear Bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki