Dunkirk evacuees escape by ship: In late May 1940, Adolf Hitler agreed with Nazi German General Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt to order a short lived halt to their assault. After Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt appointed Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell to command U.S. Support for the Chinese warfare effort started even earlier than the bombing of Pearl Harbor. These World War II occasions and other major dates are detailed within the timeline under. Below are extra images and headlines detailing vital occasions of World War II and the German march via Europe. Vichy's Philippe P