WWII Timeline

  • Date First Concentration Camp was Established

    This was a way to assist the "Final Solution"
  • Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

  • German Occupations of Rhineland

  • Spanish Civil War Begins

  • Air Raid on Guernica

  • Anschluss

  • Munich Conference

  • Annexation of Czechoslovakia

  • Spanish Civil War Ends

  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

  • Invasion of Poland

    4:45 in the morning
  • Beginning of the Fall of France

  • End of the Fall of France

  • Start of VIchy France

  • Start of the Battle of Britain

  • End of the Battle of Britain

  • Tripartite Pact was signed

  • Operation Barbarossa

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

    This battle lasted until June 7, 1942
  • Start of the Battle of Stalingrad

  • Beginning of 2nd Battle of El Alamein

  • End of 2nd Battle of El Alamein

  • End of Battle of Stalingrad

  • D-Day

  • End of Vichy France

  • France was Liberated

  • Beginning of Battle of the Bulge

  • End of Battle of the Bulge

  • Start of Iwo Jima

  • V-E Day

  • End of Iwo Jima

  • Truman decided to use atomic weapons

  • V-J Day

    This name is also associated with September 2, when Japan formally surrendered.