WWll Timeline

Hitler becomes chancellor

Apr 30, 1933

Europe

Anschluss

Mar 11, 1938

Europe

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Europe

Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Europe

Germany invades Poland

Oct 6, 1939

Europe

Operation Dynamo

Jun 4, 1940

Europe

Germany takes Paris

Jun 14, 1940

Europe

Battle of Britain

Jul 10, 1940

Europe

Italy ally with Germany

Sep 27, 1940

Europe

Warsaw Ghetto created

Oct 16, 1940

Europe

Operation Barbarossa

Jun 22, 1941

Europe

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Pacific

US declares war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Pacific

Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

Pacific

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

Pacific

Battle of Guadalcanal

Aug 7, 1942

Pacific

Battle of Stalingrad

Aug 23, 1942

Europe

Operation Torch

Nov 8, 1942

Europe

Italy Surrenders

Sep 8, 1943

Europe

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Europe

Battle of Saipan

Jul 9, 1944

Pacific

Liberation of Paris

Aug 25, 1944

Europe

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

Europe

Liberation of Auschwitz

Jan 27, 1945

Europe

Battle of Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

Pacific

Battle of Okinawa

Apr 1, 1945

Pacific

Battle of Berlin

Apr 16, 1945

Europe

Mussolini captured and executed

Apr 27, 1945

Europe

Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Europe

Germany Surrenders

May 7, 1945

Europe

VE Day

May 8, 1945

Europe

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

Pacific

Japan Surrenders

Aug 14, 1945

Pacific

United Nations Formed

Oct 24, 1945

Europe

Nuremberg

Nov 20, 1945

Europe

Nuremberg Trials

Nov 20, 1945

Europe