WWII timeline

WWI Ends

Nov 11, 1918

Worldwide

Mussolini rose to power

1919

Italy

Hirohito rose to power

1926

Japan

Kuomintang rose to power

1927

China

Great Depression

Period: 1929 to 1939

Worldwide

Japan Expanded (blue)

Period: 1931 to 1942

Nuremberg Laws passed

Sep 15, 1935

Germany

Germany expansion (red)

Period: Mar 7, 1936 to Mar 15, 1939

All over Europe

Munich Agreement

Sep 30, 1938

Germany

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Germany

Germany signed non-agression pact with USSR

Aug 23, 1939

Russia

Germany invaded Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Allies declare war

Sep 3, 1939

Germany invades France (red)

Period: May 10, 1940 to Jun 25, 1940

France

Battle of Dunkirk (red)

Period: May 26, 1940 to Jun 4, 1940

France

Battle of Britain(red)

Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Oct 31, 1940

Great Britain

Holocaust (red)

Period: 1941 to May 8, 1945

Europe

Germany invades Russia (red)

Period: Jun 22, 1941 to Dec 5, 1941

Russia

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Hawaii

US enters war

Dec 8, 1941

Battle of coral sea (blue)

Period: May 4, 1942 to May 8, 1942

coral sea

Battle of midway (blue)

Period: Jun 3, 1942 to Jun 6, 1942

Pacific Ocean

stalingrad battle (red)

Period: Aug 23, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943

Russia

D-day

Jun 6, 1944

France

battle of the philippines (blue)

Period: Jun 19, 1944 to Jun 20, 1944

Philippines

Battle of bulge (red)

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Europe

Iwo Jima (blue)

Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

Japan

Okinawa (blue)

Period: Apr 1, 1945 to Jun 22, 1945

Japan

Germany surrenders

May 7, 1945

Germany

Potsdam Declaration

Jul 26, 1945

Hiroshima bombed

Aug 6, 1945

Japan

Nagasaki bombed

Aug 9, 1945

Japan

Japan Surrenders

Aug 14, 1945

Japan