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Contents 1 Before the war 2 Wartime 2.1 1939 2.2 1940 2.3 1941 2.4 1942 2.5 1943 2.6 1944 2.7 1945 3 Notes Before the war change 1931- September 18: Japan invades the Manchuria region of China, starting Second Sino-Japanese War. 1933- January 30: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. February 27: The Reichstag is set on fire. March 23: The Reichstag passes Enabling Act, giving Hitler dictatorship power. June 28: Only Nazi Party remains in Germany. 1934- January 26: German–Soviet Non aggression pact August 2: Hitler becomes German head of state. 1935- January 7: The League of Nations allows Germany to add Saarland to its territory.[1] March 16: Hitler orders military buildup in Germany April: France, Britain, and Italy form the "Stresa Front", set up to defend Austrian independence, and will not allow Germany to change the Treaty of Versailles. June 18: The Anglo-German Naval Agreement is signed by Germany and the United Kingdom to allow a larger Kriegsmarine (German Navy). October 2: Italy invades Ethiopia, beginning the Second Italo–Abyssinian War. 1936- May 7: Italy add Ethiopia to its territory. July 18: Spanish Civil War begins. October 25: Rome-Berlin Axis is formed. 1937- Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Second Sino-Japanese War. 1938- September 30: The Munich agreement is signed. 1939- March 15: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. The country is divided and added to many countries. April 1: The Spanish Civil War ends with the nationalist victory. Francisco Franco becomes the head of state. May 22: The Pact of Steel between Germany and Italy is signed. August 23: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union is signed. Wartime change 1939 change September 1: The Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe (European War). September 3: Britain and France warns Germany to move all soldiers out of Poland or there will be war. Germany does not respond. Britain and France declare war on Germany. September 17: The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east. October 5-10: Baltic states sign "assistance pacts" with the Soviet Union, allowing it to have soldiers in these countries. October 6: The Polish fight comes to an end. October 20: The "Phoney War" begins. November 24: Japan announces the capture of Nanjing, the Chinese capital at the time. November 30: The Soviet Union invades Finland in the Winter War (it wasn’t part of WWII). 1940 change 9 April: Denmark surrenders. May 10: Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. May 25: The Allies falls back to Dunkirk. Hitler orders to stop attacking the Allies troops by land. May 26: The Allies starts moving their soldiers from Dunkirk. By June 4, more than 300,000 Allies troops are transported to Britain. June 2: Norway surrenders. June 10: Italy declares war on Britain and France. June 18: The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic states. June 25: France formally surrenders. July 10: The Battle of Britain begins. September 9: The Italian army in Libya invades Egypt. September 27: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy, and Japan. October 15: Italy invades Greece. December 6-9: The Italians are pushed back in Egypt. 1941 change 16. January: British forces launch a counter-attack on Italy-controlled Ethiopia. 12 February: Erwin Rommel arrives to lead the German Army in Africa April 6: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. April 27: Greece surrenders. May 20: German troops [in Crete] were to remain. June 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. There are also many European axes. German soldiers are sent to Finland. September 8: The siege of Leningrad begins. September 19: Arrest [Kiev]. September 30: Battle of Moscow begins. October 16: [Capture of Odessa] November 27: The Siege of Tobruk is broken. December 5: German invasion of Moscow begins. December 7: World War II in the Pacific 1942 change April 18: The Doolittle Raid is launched, bombing Tokyo from the United States June 4: Americans defeat Japan at Midway Island. August 23: The Battle of Stalingrad begins. 1943 change February 2: German forces surrender at Stalingrad. April 19 to May 16: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. July 5 to August 23: Battle of Kursk. August 23: Belgorod and Kharkiv are liberated. September 3: The allies land in southern Italy. September 8: Italy surrenders. November 6: Kiev is liberated. November 28 to December 1: Tehran conference. 1944 change January 24 to February 16: Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy. January 27: 900-days lasted Siege of Leningrad is broken. April 10: Odessa is liberated. May 9: Sevastopol is liberated. All Crimea is without German and Romanian troops. June 6: American, British and Canadian soldiers invade Normandy. July 27: Lviv is liberated. August 25: Paris, France is Liberated. October 15: Riga is liberated. December 16: German forces attack Americans in Belgium, beginning the Battle of the Bulge. United States enters Germany 1945 change January 27: Auschwitz camp of death is destroyed. April 30: Hitler commits suicide. May 7: Germany surrenders. May 9: Prague is liberated. May 9: The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union is finished. May 15: National Liberation War in Yugoslavia is finished. August 6: The First Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. August 9: The Second Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. September 2: Japan surrenders, ending the war. Notes change ↑ "1935 Timeline". WW2DB. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
This is the timeline of World War II, which shows the event linked to World War II during 1931-1945.