WWII Timeline

By RicardoRuano

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Europe

  • Nuremberg (Anti Jewish) Laws Enacted

    Europe

  • Anschluss - German Annexation of Austria

    Europe

  • Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass 10, 1938

    Europe

  • Italy, Led by Mussolini ally with Germany

    Europe

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Europe

  • Britain and France Declare War on Germany

    Europe

  • Miracle of Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo

    Europe

  • Germany Takes Paris - France signs armistice surrendering to Germans

    Europe

  • Battle of Britain

    Europe

  • Warsaw Ghetto Created

    Europe

  • Hitler invades Soviet Union - Operation Barbarossa

    Europe

  • Attack of Pearl Harbor

    Pacific

  • U.S. Enters the War and Declares War on Japan

    Pacific

  • Bataan Death March

    Pacific

  • Battle of Midway

    Europe

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Pacific

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Europe

  • Operation Torch - Invasion of North Africa

    Europe

  • Italy Surrenders

    Europe

  • D-Day Allied Invasion

    Europe

  • Battle of Saipan

    Pacific

  • Liberation of Paris

    Europe

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Pacific

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Europe

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Europe

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Pacific

  • Battle of Okinawa

    Pacific

  • Battle of Berlin

    Europe

  • Mussolini Captured and Executed

    Europe

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Europe

  • Germany Surrenders

    Europe

  • VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945

    Europe

  • Nuremberg Trials - Nazis Put on Trial for War Crimes

    Europe

  • Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Pacific

  • Japan Surrenders Ending the War

    Pacific

  • United Nations Formed

    Europe