Timeline of World War II

list of significant events occurring during World War II

This is Timeline of World War II, which shows the event linked to World War II during 1931-1945.

Before the war change

Wartime change

1939 change

  • September 1: The Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe (European War).
  • September 3: Britain and France warns Germany to move all soldiers out of Poland or there will be war. Germany does not respond. Britain and France declare war on Germany.
  • September 17: The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
  • October 5-10: Baltic states sign "assistance pacts" with the Soviet Union, allowing it to have soldiers in these countries.
  • October 6: The Polish fight comes to an end.
  • October 20: The "Phoney War" begins.
  • November 24: Japan announces the capture of Nanjing, the Chinese capital at the time.
  • November 30: The Soviet Union invades Finland in the Winter War (it wasn’t part of WWII).

1940 change

  • 9 April: Denmark surrenders.
  • May 10: Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • May 25: The Allies falls back to Dunkirk. Hitler orders to stop attacking the Allies troops by land.
  • May 26: The Allies starts moving their soldiers from Dunkirk. By June 4, more than 300,000 Allies troops are transported to Britain.
  • June 2: Norway surrenders.
  • June 10: Italy declares war on Britain and France.
  • June 18: The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic states.
  • June 25: France formally surrenders.
  • July 10: The Battle of Britain begins.
  • September 9: The Italian army in Libya invades Egypt.
  • September 27: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • October 15: Italy invades Greece.
  • December 6-9: The Italians are pushed back in Egypt.

1941 change

  • 16. January: British forces launch a counter-attack on Italy-controlled Ethiopia.
  • 12 February: Erwin Rommel arrives to lead the German Army in Africa
  • April 6: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
  • April 27: Greece surrenders.
  • May 20: German troops [in Crete] were to remain.
  • June 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. There are also many European axes. German soldiers are sent to Finland.
  • September 8: The siege of Leningrad begins.
  • September 19: Arrest [Kiev].
  • September 30: Battle of Moscow begins.
  • October 16: [Capture of Odessa]
  • November 27: The Siege of Tobruk is broken.
  • December 5: German invasion of Moscow begins.
  • December 7: World War II in the Pacific

1942 change

  • April 18: The Doolittle Raid is launched, bombing Tokyo from the United States
  • June 4: Americans defeat Japan at Midway Island.
  • August 23: The Battle of Stalingrad begins.

1943 change

1944 change

  • January 24 to February 16: Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy.
  • January 27: 900-days lasted Siege of Leningrad is broken.
  • April 10: Odessa is liberated.
  • May 9: Sevastopol is liberated. All Crimea is without German and Romanian troops.
  • June 6: American, British and Canadian soldiers invade Normandy.
  • July 27: Lviv is liberated.
  • August 25: Paris, France is Liberated.
  • October 15: Riga is liberated.
  • December 16: German forces attack Americans in Belgium, beginning the Battle of the Bulge.
  • United States enters Germany

1945 change

  • January 27: Auschwitz camp of death is destroyed.
  • April 30: Hitler commits suicide.
  • May 7: Germany surrenders.
  • May 9: Prague is liberated.
  • May 9: The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union is finished.
  • May 15: National Liberation War in Yugoslavia is finished.
  • August 6: The First Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
  • August 9: The Second Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
  • September 2: Japan surrenders, ending the war.

Notes change

  1. "1935 Timeline". WW2DB. Retrieved 2011-02-09.