Timeline

	Date	Event
	1921--July 29	Adolf Hitler assumes control of Nazi Party in Germany.
	1921--Oct. 27	Benito Mussolini appointed Italian Premier.
	1925--July 18	Mein Kampf, Hitler's autobiography is published.
	1932--Nov. 8	Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
	1933--July 14	The Nazi Party becomes the official party of Germany.
	1934--Aug. 19	Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.
	1935--Sept. 15	Nuremberg Race laws established.
	1936--Oct. 1	General Francisco Franco becomes Dictator of Spain.
	1937--June 11	Josef Stalin begins rebuilding the Russian "Red Army."
	1938--Mar. 12	Germany invades and annex Austria. Announces the Anschluss.
	1938--Nov. 9,10	Kristallnacht "Night of the Broken Glass"

	1939--Mar. 15,16	Germany invades Czechoslovakia
	1939--May 22	Axis Power alliance is formed.
	1939--Sept. 1	Germany invades Europe.
	1939--Sept. 3	Britain and France declare war on Germany to begin World War II.
	1940--April 9	Denmark falls without a fight. Denmark sinks its own navy in Copenhagen Harbor.
	1940--May 10	Germany invades Belgium.
	1940--May 10	Winston Churchill is Prime Minister of Britain.
	1940--May 15	Holland falls to Germany.
	1940--May 26	"Miracle at Dunkirk," evacuation.
	1940--June 10	Italy declares war on France and Britain
	1940	Germany U-Boats sink US and Canadian convoys on way to Britain.
	1940--June 14	Paris falls to Nazis.
	1940--June 22	France signs an Armistice
	1940--July 10	Battle of Britain.
	1940--Sept.7	Beginning of the "Blitz"
	1940--Sept. 27	The Axis Powers, Germany, Italy and Japan, sign the Tripartite Pact.
	1941--Feb. 12	Erwin Rommel becomes commander of German Afrika Korps.
	1941--April 6	Germany invades Greece.
	1941--May 24	Britain's Royal Navy Ship "The Hood" is destroyed by the German battleship Bismarck.
	1941--May 27	The sinking of the Bismarck.
	1941--June 22	Operation Barbarossa-Germany invades Soviet Union .
	1941--Sept. 1	Jews ordered to wear the Star of David.
	1941--Sept.19	The Germans take Kiev
	1941--Sept. 29	German SS mass murder Russian Jews at Kiev.
	1941--Oct. 17	Hideki Tojo becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
	1941--Dec. 7	Japanese Imperial Fleet bombs US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor
	1941--Dec. 8	The U.S. and Britain declare war on the Empire of Japan.
	1941--Dec. 11	Germany declares war on U.S.
	1941--Dec.25	Japan takes Hong Kong.
	1942--Jan. 2	Manila, Philippines, falls to the Japanese
	1942--Jan.11	Japanese land in The Netherlands and Indies
	1942--Feb. 15	Japan takes Singapore
	1942--April	Japanese-Americans forced into relocation centers in U.S.
	1942--April 18	Doolittle Raid Bombs where dropped on Tokyo, Japan.
	1942--May	Mass execution by gassing begins at Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
	1942--May 30	RAF launches first "thousand bomber raid"
	1942--June 4	Battle of Midway, Japanese are defeated.
	1942--June 21	Tobruk falls to Afrika Korps.
	1942--Aug. 7	Gen. Montgomery assumes command of British Eighth Army.
	1942--Aug. 25	Battle of Stalingrad Begins
	1942--Oct.-Nov.	Battles at El Alamein. Afrika Korps defeated by British.
	1942--Nov. 8	Allied invasion of North Africa begins.
	1942--Nov. 11	Axis forces occupy Vichy, France.
	1942--Nov. 19	Russian forces holding Stalingrad.
	1943--Feb. 2	German troops at Stalingrad surrender after 3 months of extremely intense fighting.
	1943--April 19	German SS begins liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto.
	1943--May 13	Axis forces in North Africa surrender.
	1943--June 11	Nazis order destruction of Polish ghettos.
	1943--June 13	German VI Rocket attacks begin against London.
	1943--July 5	Largest tank battle in history at Kursk.
	1943--July 22	Americans take Palermo, Sicily.
	1943--Sept. 9	Allied forces enter Salerno, Italy
	1943--Dec. 24,25	Russians begin offensive in the Ukraine.
	1944--Jan. 6	Red Army advances into Poland.
	1944--Jan. 22	Allied troops land at Anzio, Italy
	1944--Jan. 31	Americans invade island of Kwajalein.
	1944--Feb.18-22	American troops take control of Eniwetok.
	1944--Apr. 8	Red Army begins offensive in the Crimea.
	1944--May 12	German troops in the Crimea surrender.
	1944--June 4	Allies enter Rome, Italy
	1944--June 6	D-Day Landings Largest air, sea, and land invasion in history.
	1944--June 9	Red Army advances in Finland
	1944--June 15	U.S. Marines invade Saipan.
	1944--June 19-20	U.S.N defeats Japanese Fleet in Battle of the Philippine Sea
	1944--June 27	Americans liberate Cherbourg, France.
	1944--July 20	Attempt to assassinate Hitler fails.
	1944--July 24	Soviets liberate Majdanek concentration camp.
	1944--July 25	Allies break out of Normandy
	1944--July 25-30	Operation Cobra
	1944--Aug. 15	Allies invade southern France.
	1944--Aug. 19, 20	Soviet forces invade Romania.
	1944--Aug 25	Paris is liberated.
	1944--Sept.	Brussels and Antwerp are liberated.
	1944--Sept. 8	U.S.S.R. and Finland sign peace treaty.
	1944--Sept. 8	First deployment of the German V2 Rocket against London.
	1944--Oct. 2	Nazis crush Jewish revolt in Warsaw Ghetto.
	1944--Oct. 5	British invade Greece.
	1944--Oct. 14	Rommel commits suicide.
	1944--Oct. 20	US troops land in the Philippines
	1944--Dec.16	Battle of the Bulge Germans counter-attack in the Ardennes. Allies win.
	1944--Dec. 17	Malmedy Massacre
	1945--Jan. 19	German full retreat on the Eastern Front.
	1945--Jan. 26	Soviet Red Army liberates Auschwitz.
	1945--Feb. 19	American forces land on Iwo Jima.
	1945--Mar. 3	American forces liberate Manila.
	1945--Mar. 16	Americans capture Iwo Jima, Japanese resistance ends.
	1945--April 1	U.S. troops have Germans in the Ruhr surrounded.
	1945--April 1	U.S. lands on Okinawa.
	1945--April 12	Allies liberate Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps.
	1945--April 16	U.S.S.R. starts Berlin offensive.
	1945--April 18	German Forces surrender in the Ruhr.
	1945--April 28	Mussolini was executed by Italian guerillas.
	1945--April 29	Dachau concentration camp is liberated.
	1945-- April 30	Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
	1945-- May 2	German troops in Italy surrender.
	1945--May 7	Germany surrenders to the Allies.
	1945-May 8	V-E Day. Victory in Europe.
	1945--June 22	Battle of Okinawa ends.
	1945--Aug. 6	United States bomber, Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima, Japan
	1945--Aug. 9	US bomber, Bock's Car, drops second atomic bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki, Japan
	1945--Aug. 14	Unconditional surrender of Japanese forces.
	1945--Aug. 15	V-J Day, Victory Over Japan
	1945--Sept. 2	Japanese officials sign terms of surrender on US battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
	1945--Nov. 20	Nuremberg War Crimes Trial begins.
	1946--Oct. 15	One of 12 men sentenced in the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Goring, commits suicide.