WWII Timeline

1933-1945

1933

• Hitler Comes to Power

1936• Hitler takes back the Rhineland

1937

• Germany Annexes Austria

– Hitler's arrival in Austria

1938• Germany starts to take over

Czechoslovakia(Sudetenland)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of Midway

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

Europe in 1942

1943• Jan 31- Germany surrenders in Stalingrad• Feb 9- Battle for Guadalcanal ends - 1,752 US died - 24,000 Japanese died• Feb 14-20- 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

Tiger Tank

Sherman Tank

1943 continued…• May 9-14- Germans & Italians in N.Africa surrender • July 9-10- 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 20-23- U.S Marines attack Gilbert Islands• Nov 28-Dec 1- “Big Three” meet in Tetra, Iran

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 25-26- Allied forces liberate Paris

1944 continued…• Sept 17-25- Operation Market Garden- Failure

• Oct 14- Rommel commits suicide

• Oct 20- MacArthur returns to Philippines

• Oct 23-26- Leyte Gulf- Japanese loss, first Kamakazees

• Dec 16- Battle of the Bulge, through Jan 27 1945

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

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