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September 1, 1939. Germany invades Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. The German forces were under the control of Adolf Hilter.
Source; Germany invades Poland - Date & Year - HISTORY

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9 May and 22 June 1940. A remarkable German assault on north-west Europe, known as the Battle of France, resulted in the capture and subjugation of not only France but three other countries – Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium. It also witnessed the retreat of the British Army and its evacuation home from Dunkirk – controlled from Dover Castle – and other western French ports.
Source; The Fall of France in 1940 | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk)

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10 July – 31 October 1940. Was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.
Source; Battle of Britain - Wikipedia

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December 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
Source; Attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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4–7 June 1942. The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Source; Battle of Midway - Wikipedia

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August 1942. Series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific.
Source; Battle of Guadalcanal | Facts, Map, & Significance | Britannica

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23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943. Was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed to Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
Source; Battle of Stalingrad - Wikipedia

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Apr 19, 1943. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps.
Source; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Wikipedia

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June 6, 1944. D-Day -- the military term for the first day of the Normandy landings -- was the largest amphibious invasion ever undertaken and laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Germany in World War II.
Source; D-Day invasion: Here's what happened during the Normandy landings - CNN

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December 16, 1944.
It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg towards the end of the war in Europe.
Source; Battle of the Bulge - Wikipedia

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January 12, 1945. The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. Source; Battle of Berlin - Wikipedia

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January 27, 1945. The Soviet army enters Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberates around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying.  Source; Soviet Forces Liberate Auschwitz — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org)

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February 4–11, 1945. A major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders—Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union—which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.
Source; Yalta Conference | Summary, Dates, Consequences, & Facts | Britannica

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19 February – 26 March 1945. Was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field.
Source;Battle of Iwo Jima - Wikipedia

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8 May 1945. Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day, or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany 's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
Source; Clock error (americanhistoryusa.com)

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6 and 9 August 1945. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
Source; Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Causes, Impact & Lives Lost - HISTORY

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August 15, 1945. It marked the end of World War Two. As the name would suggest, 15 August 1945 was the moment that the Allies - that is Britain, the US and other countries that were fighting together - marked victory over Japan.
Source; What is VJ Day? Why is Victory over Japan Day important? - CBBC Newsround

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November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. The format of the trial was a mix of legal traditions: There were prosecutors and defense attorneys according to British and American law, but the decisions and sentences were imposed by a tribunal.
Source; Nuremberg Trials - Definition, Dates & Purpose - HISTORY