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August 31st:
The Germans create a staged attack on a Gleiwitz radio station then later blame it on the polish. this was because Adolf Hitler signed an order for an assault attack on poland

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september 1st
Germany invades poland. the attack was conducted with brutal efficiency to the point where blitzkrieg became a feared offensive tactic

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september 3rd
france and Great Britain enter the war against Germany with Poland

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september 4th
Japan which was engaged in war with China, declares its neutrality in the European War.

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september 5th
American sentiment heavily favored isolationism. because of uncertain thoughts, the US declares its neutrality in the European war.

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september 27th
Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to German forces. Poland is partitioned by Germany and Russia.

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April 9th

using the first major airborne attacks on Allied forces, Germany invades Denmark and Norway

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May 10th
Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Because of the failure of his appeasement policies, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns. Forming a coalition government, Winston Churchill replaces him. Standing alone, Churchill soon began conferring with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for aid to the British cause.

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june 10th

Italy joins the war as an ally of Germany

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August 13th
The Battle of Britain begins. The air war designed to destroy the RAF and ease the German invasion opens with the Luftwaffe outnumbering its opponent in operational aircraft: 2,669-to-704.

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September 7th
The London Blitz starts as Germany, attempting to weaken the country's resolve, bombs the British capital.

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U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service Act. It calls for the first peacetime draft in American history. To serve, men had to be five feet tall, weigh 105 pounds, have correctable vision and at least half their teeth.

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June 22
Unleashing its "Barbarossa" plan, Germany invades the Soviet Union without declaring war. Despite massing troops at the border, the Germans encounter little opposition. Hitler is now fighting a two-front war.

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December 7th
hundreds of Japanese warplanes, launched from aircraft carriers far out at sea, attack the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, based on a plan by Isoroku Yamamoto. Eight battleships, including the U.S.S. Arizona, three light cruisers, three destroyers and four other naval vessels are either sunk or damaged. One hundred-sixty-four American aircraft, mostly on the ground, are destroyed. And 2,403 Americans are killed. On the day that President Roosevelt would call "a date which will live in infamy," the Japanese also hit Guam, Wake Island, the Philippines, Malaya and Hong Kong

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December 8th
U.S. declares war on Japan

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April 9th

Bataan falls. It is the largest surrender by the U.S. Army — 78,000 American and Filipino troops. What followed would be remembered as the Bataan Death March

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June 4-7

The Battle of Midway is fought. The first defeat of the Japanese navy in 350 years is the turning point in the Pacific as the U.S. goes on the offensive. The Japanese had hoped to smash what was left of the Pacific fleet, take Hawaii, hold its people hostage and force the United States to sue for peace. But American cryptographers had deciphered their plans and the Navy was waiting for them. The Japanese would lose 3,500 men, four carriers, a cruiser and 332 aircraft. The Americans would lose 307 men, the carrier Yorktown, one destroyer and 150 aircraft

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September 8th
Italy accepts Allied surrender terms. German troops move to take control of the country

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October 6th

Italy declares war on Germany

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june 6th
The greatest invasion in history begins just after midnight as the first of 24,000 paratroopers -- flown over the Channel in more than 1,000 aircraft -- are dropped behind enemy lines in Normandy. More than 5,300 ships, carrying 176,000 men are streaming across the Channel. Allied commanders plan five coordinated landings along a 45-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline between the Cotentin Peninsula and the Orne River for Operation Overlord. It will be the bloodiest day in American history since the battle of Antietam in the Civil War. Some 2,500 American soldiers lay dead on French soil.

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August 25th
After four years of Nazi occupation, Paris, the City of Light, is liberated

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February 7-12
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin pledge to hold free elections after the war in Eastern Europe and divide Germany and Austria into three zones of occupation At the Yalta Conference

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May 7th
Germany surrenders. The Reich that Hitler promised would last a thousand years had lasted less than a dozen

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August 6th

Developed to drop on the Germans, the first atomic bomb tumbles through the bomb-bay doors of the Enola Gay. Forty-three seconds later, six miles below but still high above the city of Hiroshima, it detonates. With a single bomb, 40,000 men, women and children are obliterated in an instant. One hundred thousand more die within days of burns and radiation. Another hundred thousand would succumb to radiation poisoning over the next five years. Despite the devastation, the Japanese still would not accept the Allied surrender terms

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August 9th
second atomic bomb drops on time on Nagasaki. Some 40,000 more civilians die instantly. In Tokyo, the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War remains split between those still determined to fight on and those willing finally to give up. That evening all six members of the Council call upon the Emperor, who breaks the deadlock

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August 14th

Japan accepts unconditional surrender terms