WWII Events Timeline

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
  • Stalin attacks Finland

  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
  • Battle of Britian

    Battle of Britian
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference
  • D-Day

    D-Day
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
  • Cold War

    Cold War
  • F.D.R’s death

    F.D.R’s death
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis