1. WWII Timeline

2. 1933
Hitler Comes to Power

3. 1936
Hitler takes back the Rhineland

4. 1937
Germany Annexes Austria
Hitler's arrival in Austria

5. 1938
Germany starts to take over Czechoslovakia(Sudetenland)

6. 1939 March-Finish dividing Czechoslovakia
August 23- Non Aggression pact between Russia & Germany
Sept 1-Germany attacks Poland
Sept 3- Britain & France declare war on Germany
Sept 3- FDR announces American Neutralist
Sept 17- Russia attacks Eastern Poland
Nov 30- Russia invades Finland
Russia attacking Poland 

7. 1940 Jan-April- “Phony War” April 9- Germany invades Norway
May 10- Germany invades Belgium, Holland, & Luxembourg
May 12- Germany invades France
May 26-June 4- Miracle at Dunkirk
June 22- France falls to Germany(divided in ½)
July 10- Germany begins bombing Britain
Sept 7- Blitz begins
Sept 27- Germany, Italy, & Japan sign Tripartite Pact
Oct 28- Italy invades Greece

8. 1941 Feb- Rommel moves into North Africa May- British sink the Bismark
May-June – Stalin ignores warnings of German attack
July 24- Japan invades IndoChina (vietnam)
Aug 1- U.S cuts off oil supplies to Japan
Aug 28- Germany invades Russia (Leningrad)
Sept- Germany attacks U.S naval ships
Nov 26- Japan advances towards Hawaii
- 6 aircraft carriers

9. 1941 continued…
Dec 5,6- Germans dig in around Moscow, cold weather stalls Germany, Russians counter and push Germans back
Dec 7- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Dec 8- U.S declares war on Japan
Dec 9- Japan attacks MacArthur planes in Philippians
Dec 10- Guam falls to Japan
Dec 11- Hitler declares war on U.S
Dec 22- Wake Is. Fall to Japanese

10. 1942 Jan 2- Manila falls to Japanese
Jan 20- Hitler plans “Final Solution” to Jewish problem
Feb 20- FDR- ok’s internment camps removing Japanese Americans (110,000)
Feb 27- March 1- Japan wins naval battle of Java Sea
March 11- MacArthur leaves Philippians “I shall Return”
April 9- 12,000 American soldiers surrender to Japanese
April 10- Bataan Death March (85 miles in 6 days)
April 18- Doolittle Raids

11. 1942 continued…
May- Japanese naval codes broken by American Joseph Rochefort
May 2-8 – The battle of Coral Sea, total fight done by air
June- Germany turns attention to Southern oil fields of Russia (Stalingrad<-Sept 3)
June 3&4- Battle of Midway, Japan looses 4 aircraft carriers
June 21- Rommel in N.Africa captures Tobruk leaving clear road to Egyptian oil fields

12. Battle of Midway

13. 1942 continued again…
Aug 7- U.S captures Guadalcanal fighting continues through December
Sept- Rommel runs out of gas
Oct 23-Nov 4 – 2nd Battle of El Alamein-pushes Rommel back
Nov 8-13 – American troops land in N.Africa
Nov 19- Germans trapped around Stalingrad

14. Europe in 1942

15. 1943 Tiger Tank Jan 31- Germany surrenders in Stalingrad
Feb 9- Battle for Guadalcanal ends
- 1,752 US died
- 24,000 Japanese died
Feb Fighting in N.Africa Sherman tank defected by German Tiger Tank
March 9- Rommel leaves N.Africa
April 1- food rationing begins in U.S
April 19- Massacre of Jews in Warsaw begins
Sherman Tank

16. 1943 continued… May 9-14- Germans & Italians in N.Africa surrender
July U.S & British invade Sicily, taken August 17th
July 12- Zitadelte greatest tank battle in History Germany vs. Russia
July 25- Mussolini arrested by Italian police
Sept 8- Italy surrenders to Allied forces
Sept 10- Germany forces outer Rome & take over the country
Oct 13- Italy declares war on Germany
Nov U.S Marines attack Gilbert Islands
Nov 28-Dec 1- “Big Three” meet in Tetra, Iran

17. 1944 Jan-June- Massive buildup of troops in Southern England
Jan 22- Allied troops land in Italy (Anzio)
March 6- U.S first attacks Berlin 660 Bombers, 800 fighters
June 4- U.S forces liberate Rome & Italy
June 6- D-Day “operation overload”
July 10- City of Caen is take back by Allies
July 30- Patton’s Third army breaks out of Normandy to the south
Aug 10- Americans recapture Guam
Aug Allied forces liberate Paris

18. 1944 continued… Sept 17-25- Operation Market Garden- Failure
Oct 14- Rommel commits suicide
Oct 20- MacArthur returns to Philippines
Oct Leyte Gulf- Japanese loss, first Kamakazees
Dec 16- Battle of the Bulge, through Jan

19. 1945 Feb 4-11- Yalta conference on the Black Sea
Feb 19-March 26- Iwo Jima
March 29- Bombing of Tokyo
April-June 22- The Battle of Okinawa
April 12-FDR dies
- Eisenhower discovers “Death” camps
April 30- Hitler commits suicide
May 2- German Army in Italy surrenders
May 7- Germans sign a surrender

20. 1945 continued… May 7- Germans sign a surrender May 8- VE Day
July 16- Detonation of A-bomb in New Mexico
Aug 6-A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Aug 9- A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Aug 15- VJ-Day
Sept 2-Surrender Ceremonies, USS Missouri