WWII Timeline

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  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria

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    World War II

  • Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • SS open Dachau Concentration Camp

    SS open Dachau Concentration Camp

  • Boycott of Jewish owned shops

    Boycott of Jewish owned shops

  • Nuremberg Laws Start

    Nuremberg Laws Start

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Anti-Comintern Pact

    Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades China

  • The Anschluss

    The Anschluss

    The German annexation of Austria.
  • Evian Conference

    Evian Conference

    Confrence held where the Jewish refugee problem in Austria and Germany were discussed.
  • The Munich Agreement is signed

    The Munich Agreement is signed

    Allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    First major pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.
  • Germany Conquers Czechoslovakia

    Germany Conquers Czechoslovakia

  • Voyage of SS St. Louis

    Voyage of SS St. Louis

  • Non-aggression pact is signed

    Non-aggression pact is signed

    Pact between U.S.S.R and Germany, in which they promised to not fight each other.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

  • Germans establish the first ghetto

    Germans establish the first ghetto

  • Action T-4

    Action T-4

    Forced Euthanasia Program.
  • Division of France begins

    Division of France begins

  • Auschwitz - Birkenau begins operations

    Auschwitz - Birkenau begins operations

  • Italy enters the war

    Italy enters the war

  • Tripartite Pact

    Tripartite Pact

  • Warsaw Ghetto Established

    Warsaw Ghetto Established

  • Einsatzgruppen Operations

    Einsatzgruppen Operations

  • Nazis and Axis Powers invade the Soviet Union

    Nazis and Axis Powers invade the Soviet Union

  • Babi Yar Massacre

    Babi Yar Massacre

  • Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Chelmno Death Camp begins operations

    Chelmno Death Camp begins operations

  • U.S. Declares war on Japan

    U.S. Declares war on Japan

  • Germany declares war on the U.S.

    Germany declares war on the U.S.

  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    German government officials met to discuss the final solution to the Jewish question.
  • Operation Reinhard

    Operation Reinhard

    Code name for the Nazi’s plan to mass murder Jews.
  • Akiton 1005

    Akiton 1005

    Operation where Nazis tried to hide the mass murder of the Jews.
  • US and British forces stop Japanese advances at Midway

    US and British forces stop Japanese advances at Midway

  • Treblinka Death Camp begins operations

    Treblinka Death Camp begins operations

  • British and US forces land in North Africa

    British and US forces land in North Africa

  • Germany surrenders in Stalingrad

    Germany surrenders in Stalingrad

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • Allied forces liberate Rome

    Allied forces liberate Rome

  • US and British forces land on Normandy Beaches (D-Day)

    US and British forces land on Normandy Beaches (D-Day)

  • Allied Powers liberate Paris

    Allied Powers liberate Paris

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

  • Death March from Auschwitz Begins

    Death March from Auschwitz Begins

  • Soviet forces liberate Warsaw and Krakow

    Soviet forces liberate Warsaw and Krakow

  • Soviet Forces liberate Auschwitz

    Soviet Forces liberate Auschwitz

  • US forces conquer Iwo Jima

    US forces conquer Iwo Jima

  • US forces conquer Okinawa

    US forces conquer Okinawa

  • US forces liberate Dachau and Buchenwald

    US forces liberate Dachau and Buchenwald

  • Soviets conquer Berlin

    Soviets conquer Berlin

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders

  • US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japan formally surrenders

    Japan formally surrenders

  • War Crimes Tribunal begins in Nuremberg, Germany

    War Crimes Tribunal begins in Nuremberg, Germany

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