By Madison O’Connor & Alycia Haynie TIMELINE By Madison O’Connor & Alycia Haynie

Facts of the Holocaust= Key Facts in the Pacific = Facts in Europe = Facts of the Holocaust=

1939 1940 September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. September 27-29, 1939 Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them. October 8, 1939: Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland April 9, 1940-June 9, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. July 10, 1940-October 31, 1940 The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

1941 1942 July 6, 1941: Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno September 28-29, 1941: Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev November 7, 1941: Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka) November 30, 1941: Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest December 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor December 10, 1941 – Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam. December 11-13, 1941 Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States. December 26, 1941 – Manila declared an open city. December 27, 1941 – Japanese bomb Manila. January 16, 1942 Japanese begin an advance into Burma. January 16, 1942: Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center February 26, 1942 – First U.S. carrier, the LANGLEY, is sunk by Japanese bombers. May 12, 1942 – The last U.S. Troops holding out in the Philippines surrender on Mindanao. June 1942 British and U.S. navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway July 15, 1942: Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz) July 22, 1942: Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center November 8, 1942 U.S. and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa.

1943 1944 April 19, 1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising begins May 10, 1943 – U.S. Troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands. May 13, 1943 Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign. August 6/7, 1943 – Battle of Vella Gulf in the Solomon Islands. October 1, 1943: Rescue of Jews in Denmark November 6, 1943 Soviet troops liberate Kiev. December 26, 1943 – Full Allied assault on New Britain as 1st Division Marines invade Cape Gloucester. May 15, 1944: Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary May 27, 1944 – Allies invade Biak Island, New Guinea June 6, 1944 British and U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans. June 15/16 – The first bombing raid on Japan since the Doolittle raid of April 1942, as 47 B-29s based in Bengel, India, target the steel works at Yawata. August 1, 1944: Warsaw Polish uprising begins August 15, 1944 Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards the Rhine River to the northeast.

1945 The End January 18, 1945: Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland January 25, 1945: Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland January 27, 1945: Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the Soviets July 10, 1945 – 1,000 bomber raids against Japan begin. August 6, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. August 9, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. September 2, 1945 Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.