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WORLD WAR II: TIMELINE
Japan invades Manchuria.

September 18, 1931

Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

October 2, 1935–May 1936

Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1,
the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.

October 25–November 1, 1936

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet
Union and the international Communist movement.

November 25, 1936

Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.

July 7, 1937

Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

March 11–13, 1938

Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the
Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military
defense positions, to Nazi Germany.

September 29, 1938

Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak
Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement,
forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

March 14–15, 1939

France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

March 31, 1939

Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

April 7–15, 1939

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil
dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

August 23, 1939

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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.

September 1, 1939

Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on
Germany.

September 3, 1939

The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.

September 17, 1939

Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania.
Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.

September 27–29, 1939

The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an
armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish
coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union.

November 30, 1939–March 12, 1940

Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack;
Norway holds out until June 9.

April 9, 1940–June 9, 1940

Germany attacks Western Europe—France and the neutral Low Countries. Luxembourg is
occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on
May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the
northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a
collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.

May 10, 1940–June 22, 1940

Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.

June 10, 1940

The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the
northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.

June 28, 1940

The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States on June 14–18, engineering Communist coup
d’états in each of them on July 14–15, and then annexing them as Soviet Republics on
August 3–6.

June 14, 1940–August 6, 1940

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The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

July 10, 1940–October 31, 1940

Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the
disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. The loss of northern
Transylvania forces Romanian King Carol to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and
brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu.

August 30, 1940

The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.

September 13, 1940

Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

September 27, 1940

Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28.

October 1940

Slovakia (November 23), Hungary (November 20), and Romania (November 22) join the
Axis.

November 1940

The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.

February 1941

Bulgaria joins the Axis.

March 1, 1941

Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismemberYugoslavia. Yugoslavia
surrenders on April 17. Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians.
Resistance in Greece ceases in early June 1941.

April 6, 1941–June 1941

The leaders of the terrorist Ustasa movement proclaim the so-called Independent State of
Croatia. Recognized immediately by Germany and Italy, the new state includes the province
of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatia joins the Axis powers formally on June 15, 1941.

April 10, 1941

Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union. Finland,
seeking redress for the territorial losses in the armistice concluding the Winter War, joins
the Axis just before the invasion. The Germans quickly overrun the Baltic States and, joined

June 22, 1941–November 1941

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by the Finns, lay siege to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by September. In the center, the
Germans capture Smolensk in early August and drive on Moscow by October. In the south,
German and Romanian troops capture Kiev (Kyiv) in September and capture Rostov on the
Don River in November.
A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.

December 6, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

December 7, 1941

The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the
Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) and British Singapore. By
April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.

December 8, 1941

Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

December 11–13, 1941

The British bomb Köln (Cologne), bringing the war home to Germany for the first time.
Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble.

May 30, 1942–May 1945

British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.

June 1942

Germany and her Axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union. German troops
fight their way into Stalingrad (Volgograd) on the Volga River by mid-September and
penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula.

June 28, 1942–September 1942

US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance towards Australia at Guadalcanal in
the Solomon Islands.

August–November 1942

British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt, sending the Axis
forces in chaotic retreat across Libya to the eastern border of Tunisia.

October 23–24, 1942

US and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in
French North Africa. The failure of the Vichy French troops to defend against the invasion

November 8, 1942

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enables the Allies to move swiftly to the western border of Tunisia, and triggers the
German occupation of southern France on November 11.

Soviet troops counterattack, breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian lines
northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.
Forbidden by Hitler to retreat or try to break out of the Soviet ring, the survivors of the
Sixth Army surrender on January 30 and February 2, 1943.

November 23, 1942–February 2, 1943

Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.

May 13, 1943

US and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily.

July 10, 1943

The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets
blunt the attack within a week and begin an offensive initiative of their own.

July 5, 1943

The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro
Badoglio to form a new government.

July 25, 1943

The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies. The Germans
immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime
under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September
12.

September 8, 1943

Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples.

September 9, 1943

Soviet troops liberate Kiev.

November 6, 1943

Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.

January 22, 1944

Fearing Hungary’s intention to desert the Axis partnership, the Germans occupy
Hungary and compel the regent, Admiral Miklos Horthy, to appoint a pro-German minister
president.

March 19, 1944

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Allied troops liberate Rome. Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets
in eastern Germany for the first time.

June 4, 1944

British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a
“Second Front” against the Germans.

June 6, 1944

The Soviets launch a massive offensive in eastern Byelorussia (Belarus), destroying the
German Army Group Center and driving westward to the Vistula River across from Warsaw
in central Poland by August 1.

June 22, 1944

Anglo-American forces break out of the Normandy beachhead and race eastward towards
Paris.

July 25, 1944

The non-communist underground Home Army rises up against the Germans in an effort to
liberate Warsaw before the arrival of Soviet troops. The Soviet advance halts on the east
bank of the Vistula. On October 5, the Germans accept the surrender of the remnants of the
Home Army forces fighting in Warsaw.

August 1, 1944–October 5, 1944

Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards the Rhine
River to the northeast.

August 15, 1944

Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops,
enter the French capital. 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 20–25, 1944

The appearance of Soviet troops on the Prut River induces the Romanian opposition to
overthrow the Antonescu regime. The new government concludes an armistice and
immediately switches sides in the war. The Romanian turnaround compels Bulgaria to
surrender on September 8, and the Germans to evacuate Greece, Albania, and southern
Yugoslavia in October.

August 23, 1944

Under the leadership of the Slovak National Council, consisting of both Communists and

August 29, 1944–October 28, 1944

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non-Communists, underground Slovak resistance units rise against the Germans and the
indigenous fascist Slovak regime. In late October, the Germans capture Banská Bystrica, the
headquarters of the uprising, and put an end to organized resistance.
Finland concludes an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis partnership.

September 12, 1944

US troops land in the Philippines.

October 20, 1944

The Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross movement carries out a coup d’état with German
support to prevent the Hungarian government from pursuing negotiations for surrender to
the Soviets.

October 15, 1944

The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as theBattle of the Bulge, in an
attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By
January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat.

December 16, 1944

The Soviets launch a new offensive, liberating Warsaw and Krakow in January, capturing
Budapest after a two-month siege on February 13, driving the Germans and their
Hungarian collaborators out of Hungary in early April, forcing the surrender of Slovakia
with the capture of Bratislava on April 4, and capturing Vienna on April 13.

January 12, 1945

US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.

March 7, 1945

The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.

April 16, 1945

Partisan units, led by Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Tito, capture Zagreb and topple the
Ustasa regime. The top Ustasa leaders flee to Italy and Austria.

April 1945

Hitler commits suicide.

April 30, 1945

Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

May 7, 1945

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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.

May 9, 1945

Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands.

May 1945

The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

August 6, 1945

The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.

August 8, 1945

The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

August 9, 1945

Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally
surrenders, ending World War II.

September 2, 1945

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Timeline of World War 2

  • 1. WORLD WAR II: TIMELINE Japan invades Manchuria. September 18, 1931 Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia. October 2, 1935–May 1936 Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced. October 25–November 1, 1936 Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. November 25, 1936 Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific. July 7, 1937 Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss. March 11–13, 1938 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany. September 29, 1938 Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. March 14–15, 1939 France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state. March 31, 1939 Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania. April 7–15, 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. August 23, 1939 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 2. Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. September 1, 1939 Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. September 3, 1939 The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east. September 17, 1939 Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them. September 27–29, 1939 The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union. November 30, 1939–March 12, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. April 9, 1940–June 9, 1940 Germany attacks Western Europe—France and the neutral Low Countries. Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established. May 10, 1940–June 22, 1940 Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21. June 10, 1940 The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine. June 28, 1940 The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States on June 14–18, engineering Communist coup d’états in each of them on July 14–15, and then annexing them as Soviet Republics on August 3–6. June 14, 1940–August 6, 1940 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 3. The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany. July 10, 1940–October 31, 1940 Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. The loss of northern Transylvania forces Romanian King Carol to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu. August 30, 1940 The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya. September 13, 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. September 27, 1940 Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28. October 1940 Slovakia (November 23), Hungary (November 20), and Romania (November 22) join the Axis. November 1940 The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians. February 1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis. March 1, 1941 Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismemberYugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17. Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians. Resistance in Greece ceases in early June 1941. April 6, 1941–June 1941 The leaders of the terrorist Ustasa movement proclaim the so-called Independent State of Croatia. Recognized immediately by Germany and Italy, the new state includes the province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatia joins the Axis powers formally on June 15, 1941. April 10, 1941 Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union. Finland, seeking redress for the territorial losses in the armistice concluding the Winter War, joins the Axis just before the invasion. The Germans quickly overrun the Baltic States and, joined June 22, 1941–November 1941 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 4. by the Finns, lay siege to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by September. In the center, the Germans capture Smolensk in early August and drive on Moscow by October. In the south, German and Romanian troops capture Kiev (Kyiv) in September and capture Rostov on the Don River in November. A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat. December 6, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation. December 8, 1941 Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States. December 11–13, 1941 The British bomb Köln (Cologne), bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble. May 30, 1942–May 1945 British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway. June 1942 Germany and her Axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union. German troops fight their way into Stalingrad (Volgograd) on the Volga River by mid-September and penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula. June 28, 1942–September 1942 US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. August–November 1942 British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt, sending the Axis forces in chaotic retreat across Libya to the eastern border of Tunisia. October 23–24, 1942 US and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa. The failure of the Vichy French troops to defend against the invasion November 8, 1942 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 5. enables the Allies to move swiftly to the western border of Tunisia, and triggers the German occupation of southern France on November 11. Soviet troops counterattack, breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian lines northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city. Forbidden by Hitler to retreat or try to break out of the Soviet ring, the survivors of the Sixth Army surrender on January 30 and February 2, 1943. November 23, 1942–February 2, 1943 Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign. May 13, 1943 US and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily. July 10, 1943 The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets blunt the attack within a week and begin an offensive initiative of their own. July 5, 1943 The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government. July 25, 1943 The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies. The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12. September 8, 1943 Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples. September 9, 1943 Soviet troops liberate Kiev. November 6, 1943 Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome. January 22, 1944 Fearing Hungary’s intention to desert the Axis partnership, the Germans occupy Hungary and compel the regent, Admiral Miklos Horthy, to appoint a pro-German minister president. March 19, 1944 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 6. Allied troops liberate Rome. Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in eastern Germany for the first time. June 4, 1944 British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans. June 6, 1944 The Soviets launch a massive offensive in eastern Byelorussia (Belarus), destroying the German Army Group Center and driving westward to the Vistula River across from Warsaw in central Poland by August 1. June 22, 1944 Anglo-American forces break out of the Normandy beachhead and race eastward towards Paris. July 25, 1944 The non-communist underground Home Army rises up against the Germans in an effort to liberate Warsaw before the arrival of Soviet troops. The Soviet advance halts on the east bank of the Vistula. On October 5, the Germans accept the surrender of the remnants of the Home Army forces fighting in Warsaw. August 1, 1944–October 5, 1944 Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards the Rhine River to the northeast. August 15, 1944 Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops, enter the French capital. 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 20–25, 1944 The appearance of Soviet troops on the Prut River induces the Romanian opposition to overthrow the Antonescu regime. The new government concludes an armistice and immediately switches sides in the war. The Romanian turnaround compels Bulgaria to surrender on September 8, and the Germans to evacuate Greece, Albania, and southern Yugoslavia in October. August 23, 1944 Under the leadership of the Slovak National Council, consisting of both Communists and August 29, 1944–October 28, 1944 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 7. non-Communists, underground Slovak resistance units rise against the Germans and the indigenous fascist Slovak regime. In late October, the Germans capture Banská Bystrica, the headquarters of the uprising, and put an end to organized resistance. Finland concludes an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis partnership. September 12, 1944 US troops land in the Philippines. October 20, 1944 The Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross movement carries out a coup d’état with German support to prevent the Hungarian government from pursuing negotiations for surrender to the Soviets. October 15, 1944 The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as theBattle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat. December 16, 1944 The Soviets launch a new offensive, liberating Warsaw and Krakow in January, capturing Budapest after a two-month siege on February 13, driving the Germans and their Hungarian collaborators out of Hungary in early April, forcing the surrender of Slovakia with the capture of Bratislava on April 4, and capturing Vienna on April 13. January 12, 1945 US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen. March 7, 1945 The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin. April 16, 1945 Partisan units, led by Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Tito, capture Zagreb and topple the Ustasa regime. The top Ustasa leaders flee to Italy and Austria. April 1945 Hitler commits suicide. April 30, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies. May 7, 1945 facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha
  • 8. Germany surrenders to the Soviets. May 9, 1945 Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands. May 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. August 6, 1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria. August 8, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. August 9, 1945 Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II. September 2, 1945 Sources: www.ushmm.org facebook.com/AdnanFarooqChattha