World War II Timeline by Aidan Ward By wardaidan Jan 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany Mar 20, 1933 SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich Mar 7, 1936 German troops march unoppsed into the Rhineland Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, Starting World War 2 in Europe Sep 17, 1939 The soviet Union occupies Poland from the east Oct 8, 1939 Germans established a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland Apr 9, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 Germany attacks western Europe Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Apr 6, 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavis and Greece Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Jul 6, 1941 Mobile killing units shoort nearly 3,000 Jews at the seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno Nov 7, 1941 Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day Dec 11, 1941 Nazi Germany declares war on the United States Jan 16, 1942 Germans begin the mass deportion of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center Jul 5, 1943 Battle of Kursk May 15, 1944 Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungry Jun 6, 1944 D-Day allied forces invade Normandy, France Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex Apr 29, 1945 American forces liberate the Dachsu concentration camp Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the soviets