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War Starts
After Germany started invading little territories, France & U.K. declared the war to Germany or Nazis. -
Soviet troops invade poland
On September 17, Soviets invaded Poland from the East. Under attack of both sides, Poland fell quickly. -
Division of control
by early 1940 Germany and the Soviet Union had divided control over the nation, according to a secret protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact. -
World War 2 in the west
Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest. -
Germany advances to Belgium & Netherlands
Hitler's troops crossed the Meuse River and struck in French forces at Sedan. -
German Forces enter to Paris
German forces entered Paris; a new government formed by Marshal Philippe Petain (France’s hero of World War I) requested an armistice two nights later. -
Operation Barbarosa
By early 1941, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German troops overran Yugoslavia and Greece that April. Hitler’s conquest of the Balkans was a precursor for his real objective: an invasion of the Soviet Union, whose vast territory would give the German master race the “Lebensraum” it needed. -
Hitler's betray
Hitler ordered the attack to the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. -
War on the Pacific
With Britain facing Germany in Europe, the United States was the only nation capable of combating Japanese aggression, which by late 1941 included an expansion of its ongoing war with China and the seizure of European colonial holdings in the Far East. -
World War 2 ends
At the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman (who had taken office after Roosevelt’s death in April), Churchill and Stalin discussed the ongoing war with Japan as well as the peace settlement with Germany.