March 15, 1939 – Germany Invades Czechoslovakia
March 18, 1939 – Neville Chamberlain acknowledges Nazi unpredictability to cabinet
March 21, 1939 – Hitler Demands city of Danzig, Poland
March 29, 1939 – Britain and France pledge to support Poland
April 7, 1939 – Italy occupies Albania
April 13, 1939 – Britain and France pledge support to Romania and Greece
April 18, 1939 – Soviet Union proposes alliance with France and Britain
May 17, 1939 – Sweden, Norway and Finland reject Germany’s offer of non-aggression pacts
August 23, 1939 – Stalin and Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression Pact
August 25, 1939 – Britain and Poland sign a treaty of mutual assistance
September 1, 1939 – German Army invades Poland and takes city of Danzig start of WWII
September 3, 1939 – Britain and France Declare war on Nazi Germany
September 17, 1939 – Red Army invades Poland
September 21, 1939 – Polish Army surrenders
October 3, 1939 – The United States announces its neutrality in the war
November 1, 1939 – Germany annexes western Poland
November 2, 1939 – Soviet Union annexes eastern Poland
March 28, 1940 – Britain and France agree not to sign a peace treaty with Germany
April 9, 1940 – Germany invades Denmark and Norway
May 10, 1940 – Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; Winston Churchill assumes his position.
May 27, 1940 – Evacuation from Dunkirk starts
June 14, 1940 – The German Army enters Paris
June 22, 1940 – France signs armistice with Germany and is divided into two regions
September 27, 1940 – Japan signs the tri-partite treaty.
October 23, 1940 – Hitler meets with Francisco Franco to negotiate Spain to join the war
October 28, 1940 – Italy invades Greece
March 11, 1941 – U.S. Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act
April 21, 1941 – Greece surrenders to the German Army
July 12, 1941 – Soviet Union and Britain sign agreement to provide aid
August 12, 1941 – German Army advances to Leningrad
October 6, 1941 – German Army advances to Moscow
October 16, 1941 – Hideki Tojo become prime minster of Japan
December 7, 1941 – Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 – United States declares war on Japan; enters World War II
December 22, 1941 – Japanese Army captures capital of the Philippines
December 25, 1941 – Hong Kong surrenders to Japan
January 29, 194 – U.S. Announces Japanese internment Camps
May 6, 1942 – Start of the battle of Coral Sea
June 3, 1942 – Start of the battle of Midway
August 7, 1942 – U.S. begin using Navajo Code
November 4, 1942 – German Army defeated at El Alamein
November 11, 1942 – Hitler orders occupation of Vichy France
July 25, 1943 – Victor Emmanuel III dismisses Benito Mussolini from Italy
September 23, 1943 – New Prime Minister of Italy, Pietro Badoglio signs armistice with Allied forces
August 24, 1944 – U.S. Army enters Paris
September 11, 1944 – Allied forces enter Germany
October 6, 1944 – The Soviet Red Army enter Czechoslovakia
October 20, 1944 – General McArthur returns to the Philippines
December 21, 1944 – The Soviet Red Army creates new government in Hungary
January 9, 1945 – U.S. forces land in Luzon, Philippines
January 17, 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberates Warsaw
January 18, 1945 – The Soviet Red Army takes Budapest
February 28, 1945 – U.S. captures Manila, Philippines
March 9, 1945 – U.S. forces create firestorm in Tokyo, Japan
March 29, 1945 – The Soviet Red army enters Austria
April 12, 1945 – Harry S. Truman becomes president
April 25, 1945 – United Nations conference held in San Francisco, California
April 28, 1945 – Benito Mussolini executed
April 29, 1945 – German forces in Italy surrender to the Allies
April 30, 1945 – Adolf Hitler commits suicide
May 1, 1945 – Joseph Goebbels commits suicide
May 4, 1945 – All forces in Germany surrender to the Allies
May 5, 1945 – Denmark liberated by Allies
May 9, 1945 – German Army in Czechoslovakia surrender to the Soviet Union
May 22, 1945 – Heinrich Himmler commits suicide
July 16, 1945 – Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico
August 6, 1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
August 9, 1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
September 2, 1945 – Japanese army surrenders in the Philippines
September 2, 1945 - Japan Surrenders, signifies end of World War II
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Listed Information: (Simkin, "Chronology of the Second World War")
Listed Information: (Simkin, "Chronology of the Second World War")