World War 2 History Timeline

Explore World War 2 History with our history timeline with videos & photos.

Discover World War 2 in an innovative way in our interactive timeline you can scroll by date, year and month.

Learn about the origins of World War 2 and use your fingers to scroll between important World War 2 events.

This exciting app will have you digging into history and learning more about World War 2.

World War 2 events included:

1) Axis Formed - Germany and Italy form alliance.

2) Germany and Russia sign Treaty of Nonaggression

3) Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939

4) Germany invades Denmark and Norway

5) Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Netherlands.

6) German planes bomb England. Battle of Britain begins

7) Rommel arrives in North Africa

8) Germans invade Greece

9) Hitler's Final Solution starts with order to Heydrich

10) Barbarossa Campaign begins. Nazis attack the Soviet Union

11) Pearl Harbor Bombed by Japan

12) Signapore falls to the Japanese on "Black Sunday"

13) Executive Order 9066 signed by President Roosevelt placed Japanese-Americans in Internment Camps

14) U.S. B-25s under Lieutenant-Colonel Doolittle drop bombs on Japan

15) Battle of Midway ends with a Japanese defeat

16) Germans begin their summer offensive towards Stalingrad.

17) First U.S. troops land on Guadalcanal

18) German 1942 offensive against Stalingrad grinds to a halt short of its objectives

19) North Africa: British forces under Montgomery push Germans out of El Egheila.

20) Germans surrender armies at Stalingrad

21) Germans withdraw from North Africa

22) Allied troops land in Sicily

23) Operation Shingle starts with Allied landing on Anzio, Italy beaches

24) Allied troops capture Monte Cassino after long siege.

25) D-Day - Allies invade Europe at Normandy, France.

26) Warsaw Uprising begins

27) Allies land in southern France

28) Operation Market Garden commences.

29) The liberation of the Philippine Islands by the Allies begins

30) Battle of the Bulge

31) Soviet armies reach the Oder River.

32) Allies reach the Rhine River

33) General Patton crosses the Rhine at Nierstein

34) Soviet troops reach the Austrian border

35) Americans liberate Dachau Concentration Camp

36) Berlin falls to the Soviets

37) V-E (Victory in Europe) celebrated

38) Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

39) Japan formally surrendered

40) Nuremberg Trials start