World War 2

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  • Germany invades Poland, World War 2 begins.

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    World War II

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • The US remains neutral but president Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency".Sep 17 - Russia invades Poland

  • Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. Winston Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister.

  • Evacuation of British and French forces to Britain at Dunkirk begins.

  • The evacuation at Dunkirk ends. 338,000 troops were rescued. Churchill declares that Britain will never surrender.

  • German troops march into Paris

  • France surrenders

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.

  • Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan.

  • Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins.

  • Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.

  • Soviet troops take Kursk.

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.

  • Allies enter Rome.

  • D-Day landings.

  • Liberation of Paris

  • Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.

  • Soviets reach Berlin.

  • Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • German troops in Italy surrender.

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.

  • V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.