TIMELINE: WWII
September 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria
November 8, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the
United States
January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
January 28, 1933 Fire destroys the Reichstag in Berlin
March 25, 1933 Japan withdraws from the League of Nations
October 14, 1933 Germany Withdraws from the League of Nations
August 19, 1934 Hitler succeeds Hindenburg as leader of Germany
October 21, 1934 Mao Tse-tung’s “Long March” begins
March 1, 1935 Germany regains possession of the Saar
June 18, 1935 Anglo-German Naval Treaty signed
October 3, 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
October 20, 1935 Mao Tse-tung’s “Long March” concludes
March 7, 1936 Germany occupies the Rhineland
July 17, 1936 Spanish Civil War begins
May 28, 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes the New
British Prime Minister
June 12, 1937 Purges begin in the Soviet Union
July 7, 1937 Japan invades China
August 1, 1937 The concentration camp at Buchenwald opens
December 11, 1937 Italy withdraws from the League of Nations
December 13, 1937 Nanking Massacre
March 11, 1938 Annexation of Austria by Germany
October 5, 1938 Germany takes the Sudetenland
November 9, 1938 Kristallnact--Night of the Broken Glass
March 14, 1939 Germany occupies Moravia and Bohemia
April 1, 1939 Civil War ends in Spain
April 7, 1939 Italian forces invade Albania
August 23, 1939 Signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
May 10, 1940 German forces invade Belgium and France
May 15, 1940 Great Britain begins Strategic Air Offensive
against Germany
May 25, 1940 Evacuation of Allied forces at Dunkirk begins
June 2, 1940 Evacuation of Allied Forces at Dunkirk concludes
June 14, 1940 German forces take Paris, France
June 22, 1940 France capitulates
July 10, 1940 Battle of Britain starts
July 14, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Baltic states
September 2, 1940 Lend-Lease agreement reached between US
and Great Britain
September 7, 1940 Germany begins blitz against London
September 12, 1940 Italian forces invade Libya and Egypt
September 21, 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
October 28, 1940 Italian Forces invade Greece
November 5, 1940 President Roosevelt reelected
November 20, 1940 Hungary becomes part of Axis powers
November 22, 1940 Romania becomes an Axis power
February 6, 1941 British take Benghazi
March 1, 1941 Bulgaria become Axis power
April 13, 1941 Japan and Soviet Union sign neutrality agreement
May 10, 1941 Rudolph Hess flees to Great Britain
June 1, 1941 British leave Crete
June 22, 1941 Germany invades Soviet Russia in
Operation Barbarossa
July 27, 1941 Japan occupies French Indo-China
August 9, 1941 Atlantic Charter adopted
October 18, 1941 Tojo becomes Japanese Prime Minister
October 31, 1941 Reuben James sunk
November 3, 1941 Germans take Kursk
December 6, 1941 Soviet army begins counter offensive
against Germans
December 7, 1941 Japanese attack U. S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
December 8, 1941 United States declares war on Japan
December 10, 1941 Prince of Wales sunk
December 11, 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on United States
December 14, 1941 Japan invades Burma
December 24, 1941 Japan takes Wake Island
December 25, 1941 Japan takes Hong Kong
January 1, 1942 Allies sign the UN Declaration
January 13, 1942 Internment of Japanese-Americans begins
March 8, 1942 Japanese forces take New Guinea
April 9, 1942 American forces on Bataan surrender
April 18, 1942 Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo
May 7, 1942 Battle of Coral Sea begins
May 20, 1942 British leave Burma
May 30, 1942 Great Britain launches a 1000 bomber raid
against Germany
June 4, 1942 Battle of Midway begins
June 21, 1942 Germans take Tobruk
August 7, 1942 United States Marines land on Guadalcanal
August 19, 1942 British and Canadian forces blunder raid on Dieppe
October 24, 1942 Battle of El Alamein begins
November 8, 1942 Allied forces land in North Africa
November 27, 1942 French scuttle their fleet at Toulon
January 14-24, 1943 Casablanca Conference
January 23, 1943 British take Tripoli
January 27, 1943 American 8th Air Force conducts its first raid
against Germany
February 2, 1943 German Army surrenders at Stalingrad
February 1, 1943 Chindits launch their first Burmese operation
February 19, 1943 Battle of Kassarine Pass
May 3, 1943 Allies take Tunis
May 13, 1943 Germans give up North Africa
June 20, 1943 New Georgia Campaign begins
July 5, 1943 Battle of Kursk, Russia, begins
July 10, 1943 Sicily Invasion begins
July 25, 1943 Mussolini resigns
August 17, 1943 Raids against Schweinfurt, Germany, begins
September 3, 1943 Allies land in Italy
September 8, 1943 Italy surrenders
October 13, 1943 Italy declares war on Germany
November 20, 1943 Marines land on Tarawa
November 28, 1943 Teheran Conference
January 27, 1944 Leningrad Siege lifted
January 31, 1944 American troops take Marshall Islands
February 14, 1944 Battle of Monte Casino
June 6, 1944 D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy, France
June 13, 1944 Germans launch their first V-1 rockets
June 15, 1944 American Troops to Saipan
June 19, 1944 Battle of Philippine Sea
July 18, 1944 Tojo out of power in Japan
July 20, 1944 Assassination attempt against Hitler—fails
August 25, 1944 Germans surrender Paris
September 4, 1944 Allies take Antwerp
September 8, 1944 Germans launch their first V-2s against allies
September 8, 1944 Bulgaria surrenders to Soviet Union
September 15, 1944 U. S. Marines land on the island of Peleliu
September 17, 1944 Operation Market-Garden begins
September 21, 1944 Dumbarton Oaks Conference
October 5, 1944 Soviets take Hungary
October 21, 1944 Allies take Aachen, Germany
October 24, 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf
November 6, 1944 Roosevelt wins presidential election for fourth time
November 12, 1944 German ship Tirpitz sunk
December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins
January 17, 1945 Soviets take Warsaw
February 4, 1945 Yalta Conference begins
February 19, 1945 U. S. Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima
March 7, 1945 Patton’s Third Army crosses the Rhine at Remagan
April 1, 1945 American operations against Okinawa begin
April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt dies, succeeded by
Harry Truman
April 25, 1945 San Francisco Conference begins
April 28, 1945 Mussolini assassinated
April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide
May 2, 1945 Soviets take Berlin
May 8, 1945 Germany surrenders (V-E Day)
July 16, 1945 ‘Trinity” test at Alamogordo, New Mexico
July 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference begins
August 6, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
August 9, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
August 14, 1945 Japanese surrender
September 2, 1945 Japanese sign surrender terms on board the USS Missouri
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