World War Zwei timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland
Sep 3, 1939

Britain and France declare war on Germany
May 10, 1940

Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Period: May 26, 1940 to Jun 4, 1940

Evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
Jun 10, 1940

Italy enters war on side of Axis powers
Jun 22, 1940

France signs armistice with Germany
Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Oct 31, 1940

Battle of Britain
Sep 27, 1940

Tripartite Pact signed
Nov 5, 1940

Operation Sea Lion

Planned for late 1940
Period: Apr 10, 1941 to Nov 27, 1941

Siege of Tobruk
Jun 22, 1941

Operation of Barbarossa
Dec 7, 1941

Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Dec 8, 1941

Britain and US declare war on Japan
Feb 15, 1942

Japan take Singapore
Period: Jun 4, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942

Battle of Midway
Period: Jul 1, 1942 to Jul 22, 1942

First Battle of El Alamein
Period: Jul 17, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943

Battle of Stalingrad
Period: Oct 23, 1942 to Nov 4, 1942

Second Battle of El Alamein
Jun 6, 1944

D-Day Landings
Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Battle of the Bulge
Apr 28, 1945

Mossolini captured and executed
Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide
May 7, 1945

German forces surrender
May 8, 1945

V.E. day
Aug 6, 1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Aug 8, 1945

Soviet Union declares war on Japan
Aug 9, 1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Sep 2, 1945

Japanese surrender - End of WW2
Oct 24, 1945

United Nations is born