SOME MAJOR EVENTS OF WORLD WAR II
1. December, 1918 – Woodrow Wilson en route to Treaty of Versailles negotiations
2. 1934 – Nationalist speech by Benito Mussolini in Venice, Italy
3. Summer, 1938 – Neville Chamberlain meets with German diplomats
4. August1938 – Hitler salutes crowd at final Nazi Party meeting before annexing Sudetenland of
Czechoslovakia
5. September 30, 1938 – Neville Chamberlain gives “peace in our time” speech
6. September 1, 1939 – Germany begins invasion of Poland
7. June 12, 1940 – Germans occupy Paris, France
8. September, 1940 – German bombing of London
9. July 1941 – Japanese bombing of Chungking, China
10. June 22, 1941 – Germans launch Operation Barbarossa
11. December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese
12. June 5, 1944 – Eisenhower prepares for D-Day Invasion
13. June 6, 1944 – Allies launch D-Day Invasion
14. January 1945 – MacArthur returns to the Philippines
15. February, 1945 – Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet at Yalta, USSR
16. April 12, 1945 – Vice-President Harry Truman is sworn in as president, following death of
President Roosevelt
17. August 6, 1945 – Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
18. September 27, 1945 – Hirohito meets with MacArthur to discuss terms of Japanese surrender
19. 1946 – Tojo on trial for war crimes in Tokyo
20. 1947 – Marshall tours Europe as Secretary of State