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Asia and Europe between 1939 and 1943

By danivan_arcken

  • Germans occupy Czechoslovakia

  • Revensbruck concentration camp opens

  • Signing of the nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union

  • Beginning of Second World War

    Germany invades Poland

  • Stalin took the eastern half of Poland

  • Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland

  • Stalin forced the Finns to accept his surrender terms

  • Hitler launched a surprise invation of Denmark and Norway

  • Hitler began a dramatic sweep through the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

  • Germans trapped the Allied forces

  • Germans had taken Paris

  • Mussolini took his next step in North Africa

    Mussolini took his next step in North Africa

  • Germans gave up daylight raids

  • Americans cracked one of the codes that the Japanese used in secret messages.

  • The British had swept 500 miles across North Africa and had taken 130000 Italian prisoners

  • Rommel's Africa Korps attacked

  • Hitler had invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

    Hitler had persuaded Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to join the Axis powers.

  • Tha Battle of Britain ended

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union

  • Roosvelt cut off oil shipments to Japan

  • Period: to

    Dozens of thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the extermination squads

  • German forces put Leningrand under siege.

  • Nazis drove to Moscow

    Nazis drove to Moscow

  • Attack from Japan at Pearl Harbor

    Attack from Japan at Pearl Harbor

  • The Japanese marched to Philippines

  • The Final Solution

    Nazis built extermination camps to kill even more Jews.

  • The Japanese had reached Singapore

    Singapore was strategically located at the southern part of the Malay peninsula.

  • Start of deportation of Jews to Auschwitz

  • United States bombed Tokyo and other Japanese cities

  • Japan took the Bataan Peninsula

  • American and Australian forces intercepted a Japanese strike force in New Guinea.

  • Jews were ordered to wear stars

    Jews were ordered to wear stars

  • Period: to

    Battle of Midway

  • Period: to

    Battle of Guadalcanal

  • Himmler had total control over the Jews

    Himmler had total control over the Jews

    Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majadanek

  • First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto

  • US land behind the Japanese at Lae surrounding their troops

  • US and Japan exchange civilians in Goa

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