World War II Timeline

Hitler begins Nazi Policy of Anti-Semitism & Persecution in Germany and Australia(H)

Jan 30, 1933

Germany invades Rhineland(E)

Jul 30, 1936

Spanish Civil War begins(E)

Jul 30, 1936

Japan signs the anti-comintern pact with Germany(P)

Nov 30, 1936

Japan invades North China(P)

Jul 30, 1937

Kristallnacht (Nazi pogroms) began in Germany and Austria(H)

Nov 30, 1938

Germany invades Czechoslovakia(E)

Mar 30, 1939

Jews forced to wear Yellow Star of David(H)

Sep 30, 1939

Jews forced to move into Ghettos(H)

Oct 30, 1939

Germany invades Denmark and Norway(E)

Apr 30, 1940

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and invade Guam & Wake Island(P)

Dec 30, 1941

Plan to exterminate Germany’s mentally ill approved(H)

Jan 30, 1942

Singapore surrenders to Japan(P)

Feb 27, 1942

Battle of Coral Sea takes place as Japan seizes Burma(P)

May 30, 1942

Battle of Midway; Japan loses(P)

Jun 30, 1942

Battle of Stalingrad begins(E)

Aug 30, 1942

Invasion of Sicily and Benito Mussolini forced to resign(E)

Jul 30, 1943

First concentration camp called Majdanek liberated(H)

Jul 30, 1944

Allies liberate Paris, France(E)

Aug 30, 1944

Auschwitz Concentration Camp liberated(H)

Jan 30, 1945

Battle of Iwo Jima(E)

Feb 27, 1945

Yalta Conference held(P)

Feb 27, 1945

Soviets enter Berlin, Germany and Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide(H)

Apr 30, 1945

Potsdam Conference held(P)

Jul 30, 1945