WWII Important Dates
Date Event
1935 Hitler supported Mussolini to invade Ethiopia
1936 Hitler ordered troops to enter the Rhineland
1936 Made an alliance with Italy (Rome- Berlin Axis Pact)
Made an alliance with Japan (Anti- Comitern Pact)
March 1938 German troops marched into Austria (union with Germany
Anschluss)
October 1938 Demanded Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
Sept 1938 Munich conference
March 1939 Invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia
August 1939 Germany and Soviet Union sign the (Nazi-Soviet Non-
Aggression Pact)
Sept 1939 Hitler invaded Poland
April 1940 Hitler first attacked Denmark and Norway
May 1940 He invaded Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg
June 22, 1940 France signed an armistice with Germany
August 1940 The Battle of Britain
June 1941 Operation Barbarrosa (attack on Soviet Union)
December 7, 1941 Japanese warplanes attacked Naval base of Pearl Harbor
Mid 1942 Japan drove out the Americans of the Philippines
June 1942 Great victory at the Island of Midway
October 23, 1942 Al alamein Battle
May 1943 Germans out of North africa
Summer 1943 Allies took island of Sicily
June 1944 The Allies took Rome
Late 1943 Tehran conference
June 6. 1944 D-Day attacking the Atlantic Wall and landing on the beaches
of Normandy
August 25, 1944 Liberating Paris
Late 1944 Soviets drove Germans from Russia
February 1945 Soviets outside Berlin
April 30, 1945 Hitler committed suicide
May 7, 1945 Germans surrendered
August 6, 1945 Enola Gay dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Three days later Bombing of Nagasaki
WWII Important Dates
Date Event
1936 Made an alliance with Italy (Rome- Berlin Axis Pact)
Made an alliance with Japan (Anti- Comitern Pact)
Sept 1938 Munich conference
August 1939 Germany and Soviet Union sign the (Nazi-Soviet Non-
Aggression Pact)
Sept 1939 Hitler invaded Poland
June 22, 1940 France signed an armistice with Germany
August 1940 The Battle of Britain
June 1941 Operation Barbarrosa (attack on Soviet Union)
December 7, 1941 Japanese warplanes attacked Naval base of Pearl Harbor
June 1942 Great victory at the Island of Midway
October 23, 1942 Al alamein Battle
May 1943 Germans out of North Africa
Late 1943 Tehran conference
June 1944 The Allies took Rome
June 6. 1944 D-Day attacking the Atlantic Wall and landing on the beaches
of Normandy
August 25, 1944 Liberating Paris
April 30, 1945 Hitler committed suicide
May 7, 1945 Germans surrendered
August 6, 1945 Enola Gay dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Three days later Bombing of Nagasaki
Commanders of Armies
Commander of
Rodolfo Graziani Italian Army in Lybia
Erwin Rommel Germany: The Afrika Korps
Bernard Montgomery British Eighth Army
General Eisenhower USA Invasion of France
