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World War II Timeline by Jenna Hicks

By jenna_hicks98

  • Begin Of World War II

    Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe

  • Sovet Union Occupies Poland from the East

  • Germans Establish a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski

  • Germany Invades Denmark and Norway

  • Batle of Britain Begins

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Einsatzagruppen( mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort

  • Biship Clemens denounces the "euthanasia" killing program

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev

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

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the US declares war the next day

  • The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland

  • Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

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

  • Germans begin deportation on 65,000 Jews from Drancy to the East

  • Germans take Tobruk

  • Allied forces land in North Africa

  • American 8th Air Force conducts its first raid against Germany

  • The North African campaign of WWII ends as German forces surrender

  • Assassination attempt against Hitler—fails

  • Germans surrender Paris

  • Allies take Aachen, Germany

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin; Karl Dönitz appointed leader of Germany