World War 2 Timeline By Sutton Tuck

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  • Invasion of Poland

    The start of the Second World War after Germany invades Poland

  • The Official Start Of World War II

    Nazi Germany takes over Poland, many nations declare war.

  • Invasion of Denmark and Norway

  • Germany Invades Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg

  • German Army enters Paris

  • Operation Barbarossa: Germany invades Soviet Union.

  • Battle of Britain takes place

  • Germany, Italy and Japan sign Tripartite Pact.

  • Germans attack Moscow.

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and declare war on USA

  • Battle of Midway - 4 Japanese carriers sunk, turning point of the war in the Pacific.

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad.

  • Mussolini's Italian Fascist government is overthrown.

  • D-Day - Allied invasion of Normandy.

  • Failed Assassination of Hitler.

  • Allies liberate Paris.

  • German Battle of the Bulge begins.

  • President Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes President

  • Soviets enter Berlin.

  • Mussolini captured and executed.

  • Hitler commits suicide.

  • Germany unconditionally surrenders.

  • VE Day is declared.

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

  • Japanese surrender.

  • World War 2 ends

  • World War 2 ends officially