World War II Timeline by Matthew Crabtree

  • 1939

    World War II begins
  • 1940

    Hitler Defeats France
  • 1940

    Aid of the Allies is founded
  • 1940

    Italy Attacks France
  • 1940

    France Surrenders
  • 1940

    Battle of Britain begins
  • 1940

    Japan Joins Axis
  • 1940

    Roosevelt gets reelected for Third Term
  • 1940

    United States cracks the Japanese code
  • 1941

    Germany invades the Soviet Union
  • 1941

    Japanese attacks Pearl Harbor
  • 1941

    United States goes to war
  • 1941

    Germany declares war against the United States
  • 1943

    Battle of Kursk
  • 1943

    Italy surrenders to the allies
  • 1944

    Allied forces defeat Rome
  • 1944

    D-Day
  • 1945

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
  • 1945

    Hitler Suicides
  • 1945

    Germany Surrenders
  • 1945

    United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
  • 1945

    United States drops second atomic bomb in Nagasaki
  • 1945

    World War II comes to an end
  • 1945

    World War II ends