World War II Timeline

  • German Parliament passes Enabling Act

  • The Gestapo is born

  • Nuremberg Laws announced

  • Rome Berlin Axis Announced

  • Japan Invades China

  • Germany's Anschluss with Austria

  • Munich Agreement signed

  • Kristallnacht

  • Non-Agression Pact Signed

  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Poland Surrenders to Germany

  • Yellow Stars required to be work by Polish Jews over age 10

  • Germany attacks France

  • Italy enters WWII

  • Germany defeats France

  • Battle of Britain Begins

  • Tripartite Pact Signed

  • Battle of Britain Ends

  • Operation Barbarossa Begins

  • Battle of Moscow

  • Operation Barbarossa Ends

  • Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese

  • US declares War on Japan

  • Wanasee Conference/ Final Solution

  • Battle of Midway

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • US begins "Island Hopping" Campaign

  • D-Day

  • Allied Troops Free Paris

  • US Troops land on Philippines

  • US Captures Iwo Jima

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

  • VE Day

  • US Captures Okinawa

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan formally surrenders to US