World War II: Timeline
September 18, 1931 Japan
invades Manchuria.
March 20, 1933: SS opens the first concentration camp at Dachau
April 1, 1933: Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in
Germany
March 16, 1935: Germany introduces military conscription.
September 15, 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws
October 2, 1935–May 1936 Italy
invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
October 25–November 1, 1936 Germany
and Italy sign the Rome-Berlin Axis
November 25, 1936 Germany
and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
July 7, 1937 Japan invades
China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.
March 11–13, 1938 Germany
incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.
September 29, 1938 Munich Agreement
November 9/10, 1938: Kristallnacht
March 14–15, 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
April 7–15, 1939 Italy invades and annexes Albania.
August 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Agreement
September 1, 1939 Germany
invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
September 3, 1939 Great
Britain and France declare war on Germany.
September 17, 1939 The USSR invades Poland from the east.
September 27–29, 1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans. Poland divided between Germany and
USSR
October 8, 1939:
Germans establish first ghetto for Jews in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
November 30,
1939–March 12, 1940 Winter War
between USSR and Finland
April 9, 1940–June 9,
1940 Germany invades Denmark and
Norway.
May 10, 1940–June 22,
1940 Germany invades and occupies
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Franc. The Germans occupy northern France
with collaborationist Vichy in southern France
June 10, 1940 Italy enters the war. Italy invades
southern France on June 21.
June 28, 1940 The USSR forces Romania to cede Bessarabia
and half of Bukovina
June 14, 1940–August
6, 1940 The USSR occupies and
annexes the Baltic States
July 10, 1940–October
31, 1940 Battle of Britain
September 13, 1940 Italy invades British-controlled Egypt
September 27, 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the
Tripartite Pact.
October 1940 Italy invades Greece
November 1940 Slovakia, Hungary and Romania join the Axis.
March 1, 1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis.
April 6, 1941:
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
June 15, 1941 Croatia joins the Axis powers
June 22,
1941–November 1941 Germany invades
the Soviet Union. Finland joins the Axis, occupation of the Baltic States, siege
to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Germans capture Smolensk, get to gates of Moscow
by October. In the south, German and Romanian troops capture Kiev (Kyiv) in
September and capture Rostov on the Don River in November.
July 6, 1941:
Einsatzgruppen shoot nearly 3,000 Jews in Kovno.
August 3, 1941:
Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia”
killing program in a public sermon.
September 28-29, 1941:
Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
December 6, 1941 A Soviet counteroffensive drives the
Germans from the Moscow suburbs
December 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1941 The United States declares war on Japan,
entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina
and British Singapore. By April 1942,
the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.
December 11–13, 1941
Germany and its Axis partners declare
war on the United States.
January 16, 1942:
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the
Chelmno killing center.
January 20, 1942:
Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
March 27, 1942:
Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from France to Auschwitz
June 1942 Battle of Midway
June 28,
1942–September 1942 Battle of Stalingrad (Volgograd)
July 15, 1942:
Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands
mostly to Auschwitz
July 22, 1942-September
12, 1942 Germans deport over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the
Treblinka killing center.
August–November 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal
October 23–24, 1942 British troops defeat the Germans and Italians
at El Alamein in Egypt
November 8, 1942 US and British troops land in French North
Africa. German occupation of southern France on November 11
February 2, 1943 German Sixth Army surrenders in Stalingrad
April 19, 1943:
Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.
May 13, 1943 Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the
Allies, ending the North African campaign.
July 10, 1943 US and British troops land on Sicily. By
mid-August, the Allies control Sicily.
July 5, 1943 Kursk Tank Battle between Germany and the
USSR
July 25, 1943 The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito
Mussolini
September 8, 1943
Italy surrenders to the Allies. The Germans occupy Rome and northern Italy
September 9, 1943 Allied troops land on the beaches of
Salerno near Naples.
October 1, 1943:
Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
November 6, 1943 Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
January 22, 1944 Allied troops land at Anzio
March 19, 1944 Germans occupy Hungary
May 15, 1944:
Germans begin the mass deportation of 440,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz
June 4, 1944 Allies liberate Rome
June 6, 1944: D-Day:
Allied forces invade Normandy, France
June 22, 1944 The Soviets launch massive offensive in
eastern Byelorussia (Belarus) driving westward to the Vistula River across from
Warsaw in central Poland by August 1.
August 1, 1944–October
5, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
August 15, 1944 Allies land in southern France
August 20–25, 1944 Allies liberate Paris. By September, the Allies reach the German
border; by December, virtually all of France, most of Belgium, and part of the
southern Netherlands are liberated.
August 23, 1944 Romania joins the Allies
August 29,
1944–October 28, 1944 Slovak Uprising
September 12, 1944 Finland leaves the Axis
October 20, 1944 US troops land in the Philippines.
December 16, 1944 –
January 1, 1945 Battle of the
Bulge
January 12, 1945 Soviets liberate Warsaw and Krakow in January,
capture Budapest in February capture Bratislava in April, and capture Vienna on April 13
January 18, 1945:
Death march of 60,000 prisoners from Auschwitz
January 27, 1945:
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
March 7, 1945 US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen
April 16, 1945 The Soviets launch their final offensive,
encircling Berlin.
April 1945 Partisan units, led by Yugoslav Communist
leader Josip Tito, capture Zagreb
April 29, 1945:
Americans liberate Dachau
April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide.
May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies
in France
May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the Soviets in
Germany
May 1945 Allies conquer Okinawa, the last island stop
before the Japanese islands.
August 6, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on
Hiroshima.
August 8, 1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan
and invades Manchuria.
August 9, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on
Nagasaki.
September 2, 1945 Japan formally surrenders, ending World War
II.
^ It is the 70th anniversary of the end of World War 2 in Europe (V-E Day) this week and several people have asked me to include a brief summary of what happened during the war. So here it is. ^
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