WWII Timeline

Japan Invades Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

World War II

Period: Sep 18, 1931 to Nov 20, 1945

Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

SS open Dachau Concentration Camp

Mar 20, 1933

Boycott of Jewish owned shops

Apr 1, 1933

Nuremberg Laws Start

Sep 15, 1935

Italy invades Ethiopia

Oct 3, 1935

Rome-Berlin Axis

Oct 25, 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact

Nov 25, 1936

Japan invades China

Jul 7, 1937

The Anschluss

Mar 12, 1938

The German annexation of Austria.

Evian Conference

Jul 6, 1938

Confrence held where the Jewish refugee problem in Austria and Germany were discussed.

The Munich Agreement is signed

Sep 30, 1938

Allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland.

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

First major pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.

Germany Conquers Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Voyage of SS St. Louis

May 13, 1939

Non-aggression pact is signed

Aug 23, 1939

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

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Germans establish the first ghetto

Oct 8, 1939

Action T-4

Oct 13, 1939

Forced Euthanasia Program.

Division of France begins

Jan 17, 1940

Auschwitz - Birkenau begins operations

May 24, 1940

Italy enters the war

Jun 10, 1940

Tripartite Pact

Sep 27, 1940

Warsaw Ghetto Established

Oct 16, 1940

Einsatzgruppen Operations

Jun 16, 1941

Nazis and Axis Powers invade the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

Babi Yar Massacre

Sep 29, 1941

Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Chelmno Death Camp begins operations

Dec 8, 1941

U.S. Declares war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Germany declares war on the U.S.

Dec 11, 1941

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

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

Operation Reinhard

Mar 28, 1942

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

Akiton 1005

Mar 31, 1942

Operation where Nazis tried to hide the mass murder of the Jews.

US and British forces stop Japanese advances at Midway

Jun 7, 1942

Treblinka Death Camp begins operations

Jul 23, 1942

British and US forces land in North Africa

Nov 8, 1942

Germany surrenders in Stalingrad

Feb 2, 1943

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Apr 19, 1943

Allied forces liberate Rome

Jun 4, 1944

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

Jun 6, 1944

Allied Powers liberate Paris

Aug 19, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

Death March from Auschwitz Begins

Jan 5, 1945

Soviet forces liberate Warsaw and Krakow

Jan 19, 1945

Soviet Forces liberate Auschwitz

Jan 27, 1945

US forces conquer Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

US forces conquer Okinawa

Apr 1, 1945

US forces liberate Dachau and Buchenwald

Apr 11, 1945

Soviets conquer Berlin

Apr 16, 1945

Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Germany Surrenders

May 7, 1945

US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Japan formally surrenders

Sep 2, 1945

War Crimes Tribunal begins in Nuremberg, Germany

Nov 20, 1945