WW2 Timeline

By Fishboy812

  • German Anschluss with Austria

    Hitler followed his plan and attempted to unify all German-speaking people. First, he annexed Austria and demanded the liberation of German people in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

  • Treaty of Munich

    Hitler, Munich, Daladier and Mussolini met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland. The Czechs were not represented in the meeting and were forced to surrender the land.

  • Hitler Invades Czechoslovakia

    Even though Hitler gave assurance to Czechoslovakia that he wouldn't invade them, he went and did it anyway

  • Britain Reassures and Rearms Poland

    Britain took Poland under their wing and gave them early-warning radar as well as weapons to defend against the Fuhrer

  • Russia and Germany Sign A Pact

    Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact which included secretive clauses regarding the division of Poland

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Hitler invaded Poland, there's not much else to it than that10

  • Britain and France Declare War on Germany

    Neville Chamberlain broadcast to the entire country that they were officially at war against Germany

  • "Phoney War"

    People saw no military action from Britain which led them to call it the "Phoney War"

  • Hitler Invades Denmark and Norway

    Hitler came through to cut off Swedish ore supply routes and establish a Norwegian base from which he could break through the British Naval Blocade

  • British rout Italians in North Africa

    General Wavell defeated the Italian army

  • Chamberlain resigns

    Neville Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill came to power

  • Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

    An insane rescue mission that resulted in the rescue of 338,000 men

  • Italy joins axis powers

    Italy enters the war to pick at the spoils of war

  • France signs armistice with Germany

    This resulted in France being taken out of the war and taken over by Germany

  • Battle of Britain

    The raids lasted up till Halloween night

  • Tripartite Pact

    This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

  • Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia

    German field Marshall Erwin Romemel led the axis powers back to North Africa after attacking Yugoslavia and Crete

  • Hitler Attacks Russia—Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia despite the treaty they had signed in 1939

  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies

  • Britain and US declare war on Japan

  • Japanese Take Singapore

    The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners

  • Battle of Midway

    The USA defeated the Japanese and pushed them back

  • Allies in North Africa

    The campaign’s commander was changed from Alexander to Montgomery

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Russia’s first victory against Germany

  • Allies Push into North Africa

    British and American forces gradually assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria. They closed in on the Germans here

  • Battle of El Alamein

    Montgomery chased the German-Italian army 1500 miles across the desert

  • Allies Invade Sicily

  • Allies take Sicily

    Allied troops won Island of Sicily

  • Allies meet at Tehran

    Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met, and the fate of post-war Europe was decided

  • Axis Powers Surrender North Africa

    The British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa

  • Italy Surrenders

    Mussolini was thrown out and hanged. The new government surrendered to the allies.

  • Leningrad relieved

    The siege of Leningrad was lifted by the Soviet Army

  • Rome Liberated

    Allies were able to liberate Rome from Germany

  • Japanese Evicted from Burma

    British forces with the help from guerrilla-fighting Chindits evicted the Japanese from Burma

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Germany launched its final defensive through Ardennes region of Belgium. Were beaten back by allies

  • D-day

    Allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France

  • Paris Liberated

    The French Capital was freed from German control

  • V2 Flying Bombs

    Three people were killed by these in London

  • Allies cross the Rhine

    Allies crossed the Rhine while soviet forces approached Belgium from the East

  • Death of Roosevelt

  • Russians reach Berlin

    Russians beat US to Berlin by a small margin

  • Mussolini captured and executed

    He was hanged outside of a gas station by his own people

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • German Forces surrender

  • Donitz offers unconditional surrender

  • V.E Day

    Europe’s day of victory

  • Churchill loses election

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

    Japanese Generals refused to surrender, so we gave them a reason to

  • Russia Declares War on Japan

    Invaded Manchuria

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

    The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese didn’t learn their lesson the first time.

  • Japanese Surrender

    Unconditional surrender to allies, ending WWII

  • MacArthur Accepts Japan’s Surrender

    This formally ended WWII

  • Blitzkrieg

    Hitler launched his lightning war against Holland and Belgium