WWII Visual Timeline

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    WWII

  • Annexation of Czechoslovakia

  • Pact of Steel signed

    Pact of Steel signed
  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Declaration of War on Germany

  • Russia Invades Poland

  • Partition of Poland

  • Invasion of Low Countries and France Begins

  • Beginning of Evacuation of Dunkirk

    Beginning of Evacuation of Dunkirk
  • France Surrenders to Germany

  • Battle of Britain Begins

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact Signed

    Tripartite (Axis) Pact Signed
  • Lend-Lease Act Signed

  • Operation Barbarossa Begins

  • Final Solution Begins

  • Germans Abandon Attack on Moscow

  • Peal Harbor Bombed

    Peal Harbor Bombed
  • U.S. Declares war on Germany and Japan

  • Auschwitz Opened

    Auschwitz Opened
  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • German and Italian Surrender in North Africa

  • Allies land in Sicily

  • Italy Surrenders

  • Italy Declares War on Germany

  • D-Day

    D-Day
  • Failed Assassination Attempt on Hitler

  • Battle of the Bulge Begins

  • Mussolini Hanged

    Mussolini Hanged
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide
  • Potsdam Conference

  • Hiroshima Bombed

    Hiroshima Bombed
  • Nagasaki Bombed

  • V-J Day

  • U.N. Established

    U.N. Established
  • Nuremburg Trials Begin