World War II Dates

Question 1

Germany invades Poland

Answer 1

September 1st, 1939

Question 2

Beginnings of the Great depression

Answer 2

1929

Question 3

Japan occupies Manchuria

Answer 3

1921

Question 4

Hitler comes to power in Germany

Answer 4

1933

Question 5

Japan and Germany leave the League of Nations

Answer 5

1933

Question 6

Hitler makes military service obligatory

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

Italy invades Ethiopia

Answer 7

1935

Question 8

Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland

Answer 8

1936

Question 9

Coalition of Italy and Germany (Rome-Berlin Axis)

Answer 9

1936

Question 10

Start of the Spanish Civil War

Answer 10

1936

Question 11

Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 11

1936

Question 12

Start of the Sino-Japanese War

Answer 12

1937

Question 13

Germany takes over Austria and Sudetenland

Answer 13

1938

Question 14

Italy invades Albania

Answer 14

1939

Question 15

Pact of Steel

Answer 15

1939

Question 16

German-Soviet non-aggression Pact

Answer 16

1939

Question 17

Soviet Union attacks Finland (M, Y)

Answer 17

November 1939

Question 18

Germany invades Norway and Denmark (M, Y)

Answer 18

April 1940

Question 19

Germany invades and occupies the Netherlands and Belgium (M-M, Y)

Answer 19

May-June 1940

Question 20

France is defeated

Answer 20

June 1940

Question 21

Soviets take over the Baltics (M,Y)

Answer 21

August 1940

Question 22

Germany takes over Yugoslavia and Greece (M,Y)

Answer 22

June 1941

Question 23

Germany invades the USSR (M,Y)

Answer 23

June 1941

Question 24

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and ‘Murica enters the war (M,Y)

Answer 24

December 1941

Question 25

Battle of El Alamein (M-M, Y)

Answer 25

October-November 1942

Question 26

Italy troops withdraw from Ethiopia (M, Y)

Answer 26

May 1943

Question 27

German defeat in Stalingrad, Russia (M,A)

Answer 27

February 1943

Question 28

Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy (M-M,Y)

Answer 28

June-August 1943

Question 29

Italian King Victor Emmanuel III fires Mussolini, who is arrested (M,Y)

Answer 29

July 1943

Question 30

D-Day in Normandy (D,M,Y)

Answer 30

June 6th 1944

Question 31

German counteroffensive in the Ardennes, France (M,Y)

Answer 31

December 1944

Question 32

Allies land in Japan (M,Y)

Answer 32

February 1945

Question 33

Germany troops withdraw from Italy (M,Y)

Answer 33

April 1945

Question 34

Germany Surrenders (M,Y)

Answer 34

May 1945

Question 35

US bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 35

August 1945

Question 36

Japan surrenders

Answer 36

September 1945

Question 37

Yalta Conference (M, Y)

Answer 37

February 1945

Question 38

San Francisco Conference (M-M, Y)

Answer 38

April-June 1945

Question 39

United Nations formed (M-M,Y)

Answer 39

April-June 1945

Question 40

Conference of Potsdam (M-MY, Y)

Answer 40

July-August 1945

Question 41

Nuremberg Trials (M,Y-M,Y)

Answer 41

November 1945-September 1946

Question 42

Paris Peace Treaties (Y-Y)

Answer 42

1946-1947