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| 1890 | Birth |  |
| 10th May Wurzburg Birth of Alfred Jodll, into a military family |
| 1919 | Captain | |
| Appointed Captain in the General Staff |
| 1923 | Meeting Hitler | |
| 1st meets Hitler & is convinced of his "genius" |
| 1935 | Captain | |
| Appointed to the war plans division of the General Staff |
| 1935 | Head Land Operations Jodl | |
| Appointed Head of Land Operations when the OKW is set up |
| 1938 | Generalmajor | |
| Appointed General-Major |
| 1939 | Chief Operations Staff | |
| Appointed Chief of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff |
| 1940 | Invasion of Norway | |
| April Given a free hand to coordinate the army, navy & Luftwaffe |
| 1941 | Invasion of Yugoslavia | |
| 27th July Instructed by Hitler to prepare plans that night for the invasion of Yugoslavia |
| 1942 | Directive OKW & OKH | |
| Mar Hitler directs Jodl to command the West, Italy, the Balkans , Norway & Denmark |
| 1942 | Invasion of Yugoslavia | |
| 13th April Belgrade German & Hungarian troops enter Belgrade |
| 1944 | Atlantic Wall | |
| Jan Persuades Hitler to send mobile reserves, believes the defenses are insufficient |
| Jan Sent by Hitler to inspect the Channel defenses |
| 1944 | Defense Channel Islands | |
| Jan Channel Islands Tours the Channel Islands & gives a negative report on the state of their defences |
| 1944 | General | |
| Appointed Major-General |
| 1944 | Plot | |
| 20th July Wolf's Lair Recieves minor head injuries during the attempt on Hitler's life |
| 1945 | Arrest | |
| 22nd May Rheims Jodl & Donitz are arrested by the Allies |
| 1945 | Surrender | |
| 8th May Rheims Signs the German surrender to the Allies at Rheims , effective from May 8 |
| 1946 | Death | |
| 16th Oct Nuremburg Death of Alfred Jodl, executed |
| 1946 | Execution of Jodl | |
| 16th Oct Nuremburg Hanged at Nuremberg on four counts of war crimes |
| 1946 | Nuremberg War Trials | |
| Nuremburg Sentenced to death, on February 28, 1953, Jodl was posthumously exonerated by a German de-Nazification court, which found him not guilty of crimes under international law |
| 1946 | Trial | |
| Nuremburg Found guilty of war crimes & crimes against humanity & hanged |
