events in WWII By dspall Mar 14, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Period: Mar 14, 1931 to Mar 14, 1950 WWII Mar 14, 1934 Hitler renounces Treaty of Versailles Mar 14, 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia Mar 14, 1936 Spanish Civil War May 14, 1936 Germany Reoccupies the Rhinelands Mar 14, 1938 Anschluss in Austria May 14, 1938 Munich Agreements Mar 14, 1939 Franco becomes Dictator of Spain May 17, 1939 Britain signs a pact with Poland Jun 14, 1939 Nazi soviet nonagression pact Jul 14, 1939 Germany Invades Poland Aug 14, 1939 Britain and France declair war on Germany Sep 14, 1939 Rome-Berlin axis pact Mar 14, 1940 Hitler invades France Apr 14, 1940 Battle of Britain Mar 14, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Apr 14, 1941 Battle of the Coral Sea Dec 14, 1941 pearl harbor Mar 14, 1942 battle of Stalingrad Mar 14, 1943 allied victory in Africa Apr 14, 1943 allied conference of Tehran Mar 14, 1944 Battle of Bulge May 14, 1944 D-Day Mar 14, 1945 Germany surrenders Apr 14, 1945 allied conference in Yalta Jun 14, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Jul 14, 1945 allied conference in Potsdam Mar 14, 1949 Seperate east German Government Established