World War 2 by Thomas Moore

By mooretc

  • January 30, 1933

    President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.

  • March 20, 1933

    SS (Nazi Party) opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

  • March 16, 1935:

    Germany introduces military enlisting.

  • March 7, 1936:

    German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.

  • May 13, 1939:

    The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.

  • August 23, 1939

    Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

  • September 1, 1939

    Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

  • September 17, 1939

    The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.

  • April 9, 1940:

    Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

  • May 10, 1940:

    Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).

  • July 10, 1940:

    Battle of Britain begins.

  • April 6, 1941:

    Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.

  • June 22, 1941

    : Germany invades the Soviet Union.

  • July 6, 1941:

    Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.

  • November 30, 1941

    Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Rigaghetto in the Rumbula Forest.

  • December 6, 1941:

    Soviet winter counteroffensive.

  • December 7, 1941:

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.

  • December 11, 1941:

    : Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

  • January 16, 1942:

    Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

  • March 27, 1942:

    Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).

  • June 28, 1942:

    Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad.

  • July 15, 1942:

    Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).

  • July 22, 1942:

    Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.

  • November 23, 1942

    Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.

  • April 19, 1943

    : Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.

  • July 5, 1943:

    Battle of Kursk.

  • October 1, 1943:

    Rescue of Jews in Denmark.

  • November 6, 1943

    Soviet troops liberate Kiev.

  • June 6, 1944:

    D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.

  • March 19, 1944:

    Germans forces occupy Hungary.

  • May 15, 1944

    : Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.

  • June 22, 1944:

    The Soviets launch an offensive in eastern Belorussia (Belarus).

  • July 25, 1944:

    Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy.

  • August 1, 1944:

    Warsaw Polish uprising begins.

  • August 15, 1944:

    Allied forces land in southern France.

  • August 25, 1944:

    Liberation of Paris.

  • December 16, 1944.

    Battle of the Bulge.

  • January 12, 1945

    Soviet winter offensive.

  • May 9, 1945

    Germany surrenders to the Soviets.

  • September 2,1945

    End of WW2

  • January 18, 1945

    Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.

  • January 25, 1945

    Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.

  • January 27, 1945

    Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.

  • March 7, 1945

    US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.

  • April 16, 1945:

    The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.

  • April 29, 1945:

    American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.

  • April 30, 1945

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • May 7, 1945:

    Germany surrenders to the western Allies.