World War II Time Line

Spanish Civil war ends

Mar 28, 1939

Nazis invade Poland.

Sep 1, 1939

British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

Sep 4, 1939

Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

Apr 9, 1940

Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

May 28, 1940

First British air raid on Berlin

Aug 25, 1940

United States military conscription bill passed

Sep 16, 1940

Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president

Nov 5, 1940

Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia

Apr 6, 1941

First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

Sep 3, 1941

Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow

Dec 6, 1941

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor;Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.

Dec 7, 1941

Hitler takes complete control of the German Army

Dec 19, 1941

Germans take Sevastopol.

Jul 3, 1942

First all-American air attack in Europe

Aug 17, 1942

Rommel withdraws from El Agheila

Dec 13, 1942

Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.

Dec 31, 1942

Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.

Jan 23, 1943

First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

Jan 27, 1943

Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto

Apr 19, 1943

Allies take Tunisia.

May 7, 1943

Allies enter Naples, Italy

Oct 1, 1943

Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front

Dec 24, 1943

Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome

May 11, 1944

D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.

Jun 6, 1944

Soviet troops occupy Estonia

Sep 26, 1944

French capture Strasbourg

Nov 24, 1944

Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

Jan 26, 1945

Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

Apr 30, 1945

V-E (Victory in Europe) Day

May 8, 1945

Japanese sign the surrender agreement

Sep 2, 1945

United Nations is born

Oct 24, 1945