WWII Timeline By Tom Wall Sep 1, 1931 Japan Invades Manchuria Mar 1, 1938 Austrian Anchluss Sep 29, 1938 Munich Crisis and Appeasement Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact Sep 1, 1939 Nazi Invasion of Poland May 10, 1940 Invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France Sep 23, 1940 Battle of Britain Jul 24, 1941 Japan Invades Indochina Nov 26, 1941 Japan Invades the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Feb 19, 1942 Japanese-American Internment Mar 23, 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea Apr 9, 1942 The Fall of the Philippines Apr 18, 1942 Doolittle Raid Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midaway Aug 7, 1942 Invasion of Guadalcanal Sep 18, 1942 Invasion of the Soviet Union Sep 25, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Nov 8, 1942 Americans land in North Africa May 13, 1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass Jul 10, 1943 Invasion of Italy Nov 20, 1943 Invasion of Tarawa Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Oct 23, 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Feb 19, 1945 Invasion of Iwo Jima Mar 9, 1945 Napalm Strike on Tokyo Apr 1, 1945 Invasion of Okinawa Apr 25, 1945 Creation of United Nations May 7, 1945 Fall of Berlin May 8, 1945 V-E Day Jul 25, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki Aug 15, 1945 V-J Day