World War II

Timeline

• 1923

  Hitler tries to overthrow government and goes to prison

• 1931

  Japan invades Manchuria

• 1933

  Hitler is appointed German leader

• 1938

  Germany, Great Britain and France sign Munich Agreement
  Night of Broken Glass - Jewish synagogues and shops are destroyed

• 1939

  Germany invades Poland. World War II begins

• 1940

  Germany invades the Low Countries and France
  Battle of Britain begins

• 1941

  Operation Barbarossa - invasion of the Soviet Union - starts
  Japanese attack on Pearl Habour Naval Base

• 1942

  Battle of Stalingrad
  Wansee Conference - Nazi leaders agree on the Final Solution

• 1944

  D-Day - Normandy Invasion
  Attempt to assassinate Hitler fails

• 1945

  Yalta Conference - Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt meet
  Hitler commits suicide in Berlin
  Germany surrenders
  Atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  Nuremberg war trials begin