WWII Timeline By DeepakYourChopras Sep 19, 1931 Japanese Forces Invade Manchuria This event marks one of the first offesnes of Japan against China relatIng to WWII. The Japanese troops seized the area and set up a puppet state. They occupied Manchuria for the remainder of the war. Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor Oct 3, 1935 Italy Invades Ethiopia Mar 12, 1938 Hitler Annexes Austria Mar 15, 1939 Hitler Invades Czechoslovakia Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland (WWII Begins) Jul 10, 1940 First Luftwaffe Bombing in Britain Jun 22, 1941 Nazis Initiate Operation Barbarossa Dec 7, 1941 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor Jun 7, 1942 Japan Defeated at Battle of Midway Feb 2, 1943 Germans Defeated at Stalingrad Jun 6, 1944 Allies Invade France (D-Day) Jan 26, 1945 Soviets Liberate Auschwitz Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini Captured and Hanged Apr 30, 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day Jun 5, 1945 Allies Divide Germany Aug 6, 1945 First Nuclear Attack on Japan Sep 2, 1945 Japan Surrenders (End of WWII) Nov 20, 1945 Nuremberg Trials Begin
