WWII Timeline

By Rilysa
  • 1922

    1922

    Japan signs treaty with China to respect China's borders
  • 1928

    1928

    Japan signs Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war
  • 1929

    1929

    Great Depression struck and many Japanese blamed the government
  • September 1931

    September 1931

    Japanese army seized Manchuria, despite objections from the Japanese parliament
  • 1933

    1933

    Japan withdraws from League of Nations
  • 1935

    1935

    U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts
  • March 1935

    March 1935

    Hitler announces Germany will not obey Treaty of Versailles
  • October 1935

    October 1935

    Italy attacks Ethiopia
  • March 1936

    March 1936

    Germany occupies Rhineland
  • July 1936

    July 1936

    Army leaders joined General Francisco Franco in a revolt
  • October 1936

    October 1936

    Italy and Germany make an alliance
  • November 1936

    November 1936

    Germany made an agreement with Japan
  • 1937

    1937

    Japan invades China; full-scale war between Japan and China
  • March 1938

    March 1938

    Germany annexes Austria
  • September 1938

    September 1938

    Germany takes Sudetenland
  • September 29, 1938

    September 29, 1938

    Munich Conference
  • 1939

    1939

    Republican resistance collapsed
  • March 1939

    March 1939

    Germany invades Czechoslovakia
  • April 1939

    April 1939

    Italy invades Albania
  • August 1939

    August 1939

    Nazis and Soviets sign Nonaggression Pact
  • August 23,1939

    August 23,1939

    Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact
  • September 1,1939

    September 1,1939

    Hitler's surprise attack against Poland
  • September 3,1939

    September 3,1939

    France and Great Britain declared war on Germany
  • September 17,1939

    September 17,1939

    Soviet Union invades eastern Poland,Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia,and Finland
  • March 1940

    March 1940

    Stalin forced the Finns to accept his surrender terms
  • April 1940

    April 1940

    The calm ended. Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
  • May 1940

    May 1940

    Germany invades Netherlands,Belgium,and Luxembourg
  • June 14,1940

    June 14,1940

    The Germans took Paris
  • June 22,1940

    June 22,1940

    French leaders surrendered
  • September 1940

    September 1940

    Battle of Britain
  • March 1941

    March 1941

    Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt
  • April 1941

    April 1941

    Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
  • June 1941

    June 1941

    Germany invades Soviet Union
  • September 4,1941

    September 4,1941

    A German U-boat fired on a U.S. destroyer in the Atlantic
  • September 8,1941

    September 8,1941

    German forces put Leningrad under seige
  • October 1941

    October 1941

    Germans try to take Moscow