WWII Events By 0scsha78_newo Sep 1, 1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk overwhelms Holland, Belgium and France 1940 Battle of Britain and the ‘Blitz’ of British cities May 10, 1940 German ‘Blitzkrieg’ 1941 Operation Barbarossa begins November, 1941 – the Allies take Tobruk 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour 1942 the fall of Singapore 1942 The Battle of Midway 1942 first news of Nazi atrocities against Jewish people reaches the Allies 1943 German forces surrender at Stalingrad 1944 D-Day Landings 1945 Soviet liberation of Auschwitz 1945 the United States drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki