World War II

Japan Invades Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

Japan Invades China

Jul 7, 1937

This initiated War in the Pacific

Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

Mar 13, 1938

France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

Mar 31, 1938

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1938

Honoring their guarantee of Polands boarders

The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east

Sep 17, 1938

Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement

Sep 28, 1938

Forced the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.

Italy enters the War

Jun 10, 1940

. Italy invades southern France on June 21

The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

Jul 10, 1940

Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

Sep 27, 1940

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

Dec 7, 1941

Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

Dec 11, 1941

Germany and her Axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union

Jun 28, 1942

German troops fight their way into Stalingrad (Volgograd) on the Volga River by mid-September and penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula.

First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

Jan 27, 1943

at Wilhelmshaven

Troops surrender

May 13, 1943

German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

Ghettos are no longer!

May 16, 1943

Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends

Mussolini arrested

Jul 25, 1943

The Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.

Germans rescue Mussolini

Sep 12, 1943

Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.

First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain

Jun 13, 1944

First attack since there return in War.

Hitler Assasination attempt

Jul 20, 1944

Assasination attempt by German soldiers failed.

Anne Frank Arrested

Aug 4, 1944

Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland

Operation Dragoon Begins

Aug 15, 1944

(the Allied invasion of Southern France).

Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

Oct 30, 1944

Gas chambers were no longer used in the death camps for mass murder.

Mussolini is captured

Apr 28, 1945

hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

Jun 26, 1945

First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan

Aug 6, 1945

Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria

Aug 8, 1945

Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.

Aug 9, 1945

United Nations is born

Oct 24, 1945