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First Neutrality Act is passed
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
signing of the anti-comintern pact
Agreement concluded first between Germany and Japan and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan (Nov. 6, 1937). -
Hitler declares Austria as part of the Third Reich
Germany annexes Austria. -
German troops invade Czechoslovakia
German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. -
Mussolini invades Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
ended April 12, 1939 -
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Germany attackss Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its border with German-controlled territory.
ended October 6, 1939 -
signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis
An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries. -
The soviet union attacks Finland
Resulted in Soviet pyrrhic victory, Moscow Peace Treaty. -
Germans invade Denmark and Norway
Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, ostensibly as a preventive manoeuvre against a planned, and openly discussed, Franco-British occupation of Norway. -
Germans invade the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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Winston Churchill is named as Prime Minister of Great Britain
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister. -
Dunkerque is evacuated
The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940, during World War II. -
Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain
Italy Declares War on France and Great Britain, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain. -
Battle of Britain
Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which ended October 31, 1940 -
Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy
The "Axis powers" formally took the name after the Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan on 27 September 1940, in Berlin. -
Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya
On this day, German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly ... to Libya along with the new Afrika Korps to take control. -
Germany attacks the Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. -
Pearl Harbor is attacked
On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Us congress declares war on Japan
US declarres war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. -
Bataan Death March
The forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. -
Battle of Midway
only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
D-Day
More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Marc Arthur lands in the Philippines
On this day in History, oldiers land on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, as preparation for the major invasion. -
V-E day
Victory in Europe Day, was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Postdam Confrence
Negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
V-J Day
Spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
