April's WWII Timeline

Italy invades Ethiopia

Oct 2, 1935

Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

German, Italian Alliance

Oct 25, 1936

Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.

Munich Conference

Sep 29, 1938

Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.

Germnay Invaded Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Germanyy invades poland and therfore starts WWII

Germany invades Danmark and Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Germany descended on an unprepared Norway on April 9th, 1940, taking the country with little resistance from the scattered resistance.

Greece surrenders to Germany

Apr 27, 1941

After 7 months of resistance and after defeating Italy, Nazi Germany invades via Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.

Gas Experimentation

Sep 3, 1941

Germans use the first form of gas experimentation in Auschwitz

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan invades, bombs, and sinks many naval forced in Hawaii starting the involvement of the U.S. in WWII

War on U.S.

Dec 11, 1941

Germnay and Italy finally declare war on the United States.

Jewish Ghettos

Jul 22, 1942

Nazi soldiers start to deport Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to concentration camps

German seige of Leningrad

Aug 23, 1942

First bombs fell on Stalingrad. The Germans had concentrated the bulk of the Luftwaffe in the east.

Operation Torch

Nov 8, 1942

The British–American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign

German and Italian Surrender

May 13, 1943

Germany and Italy surrender to North Africa

Fecist Reunited

Sep 12, 1943

German rescue Mussolini who re-establishes a Fascist government

Italy declares war on Germany

Oct 13, 1943

The government of Italy declares war on its former Axis partner Germany and joins the battle on the side of the Allies.

End of Seige in Stalingrad

Jan 27, 1944

The Russians fought to hold Stalingrad on the battle that marked the beginning of the end for Germany's Wehrmacht.

D-Day in Normandy, France

Jun 6, 1944

U.S. Troops land and invade on the Normandy beach in France to defeat German forces stationed there.

Assassination Failed

Jul 20, 1944

German assassination attempt on Hitler fails

Victory in Europe Day

May 8, 1945

Official end to WWII where Allied forces accaept the surrender of th Nazi Party

Surrender of Japan

Sep 2, 1945

End of hostility in WWII when Japan surrenders and U.S. dropped bombs on Nagasaki