WWII timeline

By eleanor_rf

  • Japan Invades Manchuria, China

  • FDR elected President

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

  • Mussolini Invades Ethiopia

  • Attack on the Panay

    Japanese attack American gunboat

  • Mussolini Joins Hitler

  • Sudetenland and Appeasement

    France and GB appease Germany and promise Sudetenland

  • Kristallnacht

    7500 Jewish businesses are looted, and many synagogues burned in Germany

  • Hitler Annexes Czechoslovakia

  • Fascist Italy annexes Albania

  • Stalin and Hitler sign Nonaggression Pact

  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Congress Lifts Aid Embargo

    munitions can be sold to Britain and France

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Hitler Seizes Low Countries

    Including Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg

  • Hitler Defeats France: Surrender of Paris

  • Pearl Harbor

  • US enters war

  • Italy surrenders to allies

  • Allies Captures Naples

  • Soviets troops liberate Kiev

  • Rome Falls to Allies

  • D-Day

  • Paris Liberated by Allies

  • FDR Dies

  • Mussolini Dies

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

  • Germany Surrenders

  • US Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

  • US drops atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

  • WWII Ends

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