World War II Timeline by Aidan Ward

By wardaidan

  • President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany

  • SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich

  • German troops march unoppsed into the Rhineland

  • Germany invades Poland, Starting World War 2 in Europe

  • The soviet Union occupies Poland from the east

  • Germans established a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks western Europe

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Germany invades Yugoslavis and Greece

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Mobile killing units shoort nearly 3,000 Jews at the seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno

  • Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day

  • Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

  • Germans begin the mass deportion of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center

  • Battle of Kursk

  • Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungry

  • D-Day allied forces invade Normandy, France

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex

  • American forces liberate the Dachsu concentration camp

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies

  • Germany surrenders to the soviets