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WWII Timeline

  • Hitler Announces Creation of German Airforce

    Hitler Announces Creation of German Airforce

  • German Troops enter Demilitarized Area of Rhineland

    German Troops enter Demilitarized Area of Rhineland

  • Hitler Annexes Austria

    Hitler Annexes Austria

  • Germany Demands Sudetenland

    Germany Demands Sudetenland

    Area in northwestern Czechoslovakia, inhabitated largely by Germans.
  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

  • Britain and France Declare war on Germany

    Britain and France Declare war on Germany

  • Blitzkreig Against Denmark and Norway

    Blitzkreig Against Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks Netherlands, Belgium, and France

    Germany attacks Netherlands, Belgium, and France

  • Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor & Philippines

    Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor & Philippines

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Battle of Coral Sea

    American naval forces stop Japanese advance and save Australia from threat of invasion
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    US airplanes destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
  • Hitler invades Soviet Union

    Hitler invades Soviet Union

  • German 6th Army Lost at Stalingrad

    German 6th Army Lost at Stalingrad

  • Axis Forces in Tunisia Surrender

    Axis Forces in Tunisia Surrender

  • D-Day

    D-Day

    U.S. lands on Normandy beaches including Omaha. General Dwight D Eisenhower is in charge of the attack.
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

    Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

    Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders