World War II Timeline by Ally Goss

By allyyygossss

  • Beginning of World War II.

  • Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews.

  • Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.

  • The United States, which supplies Japan with nearly all its aviation fuel, stops the export of any technic.

  • German Jews ordered into forced labor.

  • Italy enters the war as an ally of Germany.

  • The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.

  • More than three million German troops invade the Soviet Union.

  • Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million).

  • Ghettos established at Kovno, Minsk, Vitebsk and Zhitomer. Also in July, the government of Vichy France seizes Jewish owned property.

  • Beginning of general deportation of German Jews.

  • Japan attacks the United States, bombing Pearl Harbor.

  • The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.

  • German Jews are banned from using public transportation.

  • SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.

  • Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

  • Greek Jews are ordered into ghettos.

  • German SS and police officials and their auxiliaries begin liquidating the Bialystok ghetto. They kill approximately 1,000 Jews and deport 10,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center, where most are immediately killed.

  • In Greece, German authorities order Greek Jews in Salonika to move into a ghetto, also requiring them to wear the yellow star and made them a curfew.

  • First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totaling 5,200 persons.

  • D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.

  • Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  • Invasion of eastern Germany by Russian troops.

  • Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.

  • Japan surrenders. World War II officially ends.