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General WWII and Holocaust Timeline

1933

January 30

Hitler comes to power

1938

​March 12     

November 9

Aunchluss of Austria (Austria becomes part of Germany)

Kristallnacht

1939

August 23

September 1

September 17

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, non aggression agreement between USSR and Germany

Germany invades Poland

USSR invades Poland

1940

June 10

Italy enters war

1941

January

June 22

December 7

December 8

December 11

Germany begins Final Solution

Germany invades the USSR

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

United States and Britain declare war on Japan

Italy and Germany declare war on the United States

1942

June 4

June 22

Battle of Midway begins

Germany invades the USSR

1943

September 8

Italy signs the Armistice and joins the Allies

1944

June 4

June 6

December 16

American troops enter Rome

Allies invade Normandy

German troops launch the Battle of the Bulge

1945

January 27

February 19

April 21

April 29

April 30

 

May 8

 

August 6

August 9

August 15

 

September 2

Auschwitz is liberated by Russian army

American marines land on Iwo Jima

 

Soviet troops enter Berlin

Dachau is liberated

Hitler commits suicide

 

V-E Day marks Germany's unconditional surrender

 

Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

Victory over Japan

 

V-J Day commemorated in the U.S.

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