WWII Timeline

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
  • WWII officially starts

  • Germany makes a Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland

  • Germany invades Belgium and Holland

  • Germany invades France

  • German troops enter Paris, France

  • German blitzkrieg on Britain

    German blitzkrieg on Britain
  • Italy invades Greece

  • Germany invades Greece

  • Germany sieges Leningrad

  • Pearl Harbor bombing

    Pearl Harbor bombing
  • USA enters WWII

  • Japan captures Singapore

  • Japan invades Solomon Islands

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    Battle of Midway

  • Germany defeated by USSR at Kursk

  • USA and Britain land in Sicily

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • USA takes Marshall Islands

  • Britain enters Belgium

  • Allies invade Germany

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    Battle of the Bulge

  • German offensive in Ardennes

  • USA discovers Buchenwald

    USA discovers Buchenwald
  • USA launches atomic bomb over Hiroshima

    USA launches atomic bomb over Hiroshima
  • USA launches atomic bomb over Nagasaki

  • WWII officially ends

  • Treaty of Paris 1947