Timeline of World War II

This is Timeline of World War II, which shows the event linked to World War II during 1931-1945.
Before the war
1931- September 18: Japan invades the Manchuria region of China, starting Second Sino-Japanese War.
1933-
January 30: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
February 27: The Reichstag is set on fire.
March 23: The Reichstag passes Enabling Act, giving Hitler dictatorship power.
June 28: Only Nazi Party remains in Germany.
1934-
January 26: German-Polish declaration of non-aggression.
August 2: Hitler becomes German head of state.
1935-
January 7: The League of Nations allows Germany to add Saarland to its territory.
March 16: Hitler orders military buildup in Germany
April: France, Britain, and Italy form the "Stresa Front", set up to defend Austrian independence, and will not allow Germany to change the Treaty of Versailles.
June 18: The Anglo-German Naval Agreement is signed by Germany and the United Kingdom to limit the size of their navies.
October 2: Italy invades Ethiopia, beginning the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
1936-
May 7: Italy add Ethiopia to its territory.
July 18: Spanish Civil War begins.
October 25: Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
1937- Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Second Sino-Japanese War.
1938- September 30: The Munich agreement is signed.
1939-
March 15: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. The country is divided and added to many countries.
April 1: The Spanish Civil War ends with the nationalist victory. Francisco Franco becomes the head of state.
May 22: The Pact of Steel between Germany and Italy is signed.
August 23: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union is signed.
Wartime
1939
September 1: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe (European War).
September 3: Britain and France warns Germany to move all soldiers out of Poland or there will be war. Germany does not respond. Britain and France declare war on Germany.
September 17: The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
October 5-10: Baltic states sign "assistance pacts" with the Soviet Union, allowing it to have soldiers in these countries.
October 6: The Polish fight comes to an end.
October 20: The "Phoney War" begins.
November 24: Japan announces the capture of Nanjing, the Chinese capital at the time.
November 30: The Soviet Union invades Finland in the Winter War (it wasn't part of WWII).
1940
9 April: Denmark surrenders.
May 10: Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
May 25: The Allies falls back to Dunkirk. Hitler orders to stop attacking the Allies troops by land.
May 26: The Allies starts moving their soldiers from Dunkirk. By June 4, more than 300,000 Allies troops are transported to Britain.
June 2: Norway surrenders.
June 10: Italy declares war on Britain and France.
June 18: The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic states.
June 25: France formally surrenders.
July 10: The Battle of Britain begins.
September 9: The Italian army in Libya invades Egypt.
September 27: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
October 15: Italy invades Greece.
December 6-9: The Italians are pushed back in Egypt.
1941
16. January: British forces launch a counter-attack on Italy-controlled Ethiopia.
March 24: The German Army in Africa (by Erwin Roe
April 6: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
April 27: Greece surrenders.
May 20: German troops [in Crete] were to remain.
June 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. There are also many European axes. German soldiers are sent to Finland.
September 1: Leningrad under [[siege].
September 19: Arrest [Kiev].
October 2: Battle of Moscow begins.
October 16: [Capture of Odessa]
November 27: The Siege of Tobruk is broken.
December 5: German invasion of Moscow begins.
December 7: World War II in the Pacific
1942
April 18: The Doolittle Raid is launched, bombing Tokyo from the United States
June 4: Americans defeat Japan at Midway Island.
August 23: The Battle of Stalingrad begins.
1943
February 2: German forces surrender at Stalingrad.
April 19 to May 16: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
July 5 to August 23: Battle of Kursk.
August 23: Belgorod and Kharkiv are liberated.
September 3: The allies land in southern Italy.
September 8: Italy surrenders.
November 6: Kiev is liberated.
November 28 to December 1: Tehran conference.
1944
January 24 to February 16: Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy.
January 27: 900-days lasted Siege of Leningrad is broken.
April 10: Odessa is liberated.
May 9: Sevastopol is liberated. All Crimea is without German and Romanian troops.
June 6: American, British and Canadian soldiers invade Normandy.
July 27: Lviv is liberated.
August 25: Paris, France is Liberated.
October 15: Riga is liberated.
December 16: German forces attack Americans in Belgium, beginning the Battle of the Bulge.
United States enters Germany
1945
January 27: Auschwitz camp of death is destroyed.
April 30: Hitler commits suicide.
May 7: Germany surrenders.
May 9: Prague is liberated.
May 9: The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union is finished.
May 15: National Liberation War in Yugoslavia is finished.
August 6: The First Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
August 9: The Second Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
September 2: Japan surrenders, ending the war.