Key Events and People of World War 2 timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Oct 1, 1934 to Oct 1, 1935

Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
Mar 7, 1936

German occupation of the Rhineland
Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Mar 28, 1939

Spanish Civil War
Apr 27, 1937

Air Raid on Guernica
Mar 28, 1938

The Anschluss
Sep 28, 1938

First Day of Munich Conference
Sep 29, 1938

End of Munich Conference
Period: Oct 1, 1938 to Mar 15, 1939

Annexation of Czechoslovakia
Period: Jun 18, 1939 to Aug 1, 1944

Free French and Resistance
Aug 29, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Sep 1, 1939

Invasion of Poland
Period: May 10, 1940 to Jun 22, 1940

Fall of France
Period: Jul 1, 1940 to Aug 1, 1944

Vichy France
Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Oct 31, 1940

Battle of Britain
Sep 27, 1940

Tripartite Act
Jun 22, 1941

Operation Barbarossa
Dec 7, 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Period: Jan 1, 1942 to Jan 1, 1945

The "Final Solution"
Jun 4, 1942

Battle of Midway
Period: Jul 17, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943

Battle of Stalingrad
Period: Oct 23, 1942 to Nov 2, 1942

Second Battle of El Alamein
Jun 6, 1944

D-Day
Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Battle of the Bulge
Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

Iwo Jima
May 8, 1945

V-E Day
Aug 6, 1945

Decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima
Aug 9, 1945

Decision to use atomic bombs on Nagasaki
Aug 10, 1945

V-J Day