Brief Timeline of the Second World War 1933-1945 1/30/33: Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany March 1933: First concentration camp built in Germany (Dachau) 8/2/34: Hitler is elected Führer 3/16/35: Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty 9/15/35: Nuremberg Laws are passed in Germany 9/1/39: Germany invades Poland and begins WWII 5/8/45: VE Day 5/10/36: Italy annexes Abyssinia 6/22/41: Germany invades the USSR 8/6/45: Hiroshima 8/9/45: Nagasaki 8/1/36: Berlin Olympic games held 12/7/41: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor 4/9/42: Bataan Death March 8/15/45: VJ Day 4/18/42: Battle of Midway ‘33 ’34 ’35 ’36 ’37 ’38 ‘39 8/23/43: Battle of Stalingrad 6/7/37: Second Sino-Japanese War Begins ‘40 ‘41 ’42 ’43 ’44 ‘45 12/12/37: Japanese planes sink the US gunboat Panay 9/8/43: Italy surrenders Autumn 1938: US and Germany recall ambassadors 10/10/38: Germany occupies the Sudentenland 11/28/43: Teheran conference 3/16/39: Germany occupies Bohemia and Morovia 6/6/44: D-Day 1940: Germany invades Norway, Denmark, France, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg 6/13/44: First V-1 rocket launched 5/10/40: Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain 2/4/45: Yalta conference 9/7/40: The London Blitz begins 4/12/45: FDR dies in office 4/28/45: Mussolini executed 1942: Japan invades the Dutch east Indies, Burma, Singapore, Java, and Rangoon 4/30/45: Hitler commits suicide DePaul TPS 2013