-
Germany invades Poland, World War 2 begins.
-
The evacuation at Dunkirk ends. 338,000 troops were rescued. Churchill declares that Britain will never surrender
-
British forces in Egypt counter attack the Italians and advance along the Libyan coast
-
Hitler sends Rommel and the Afrika Korps to help the Italians in North Africa
-
The Japanese Navy attacks Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines, and the US joins the war.
-
The battle of Midway. Four Japanese carriers are sunk, and one American carrier. Japan's naval superiority is lost.
-
Italy surrenders. The German forces in northern and central Italy occupy it
-
The Russians reach the old German-Russian border in central Poland
-
The Marines land in Leyte, in the Philippines. In response, the Japanese Navy begins to use Kamikaze suicide pilots.
-
The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan