WWll Timeline By nick_kavis22 Jan 1, 1933 Holocaust Jan 30, 1934 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland May 10, 1940 Germany attacks France May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain Jul 1, 1940 Battle of Britain Jan 10, 1941 Lend-Lease Act May 20, 1941 Hitler takes over the Balkans Nov 9, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Formation of the U.N. Feb 19, 1942 Japanese internment camps Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Jul 1, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Aug 1, 1942 Guadalcanal Aug 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Apr 28, 1943 Mussolini’s assassination Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jan 1, 1945 Cold War Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 1, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Apr 1, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 13, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
