English Timeline America USA nr.1!!!!!

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  • Francis Ferdinad assassinated at Sarajevo

    Francis Ferdinad assassinated at Sarajevo
    Assassination of royal family member, kicks of the war.

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

    Austria declared war on Serbia
    First hostile contact between soldiers.

  • Rupert Brooke

    Rupert Brooke
    (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer[1]) (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915[2]) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War.

  • Italy declared war on Germany and Austria

    Italy declared war on Germany and Austria

  • Start of the Battle of Loos

    Start of the Battle of Loos

  • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

    Ruth Comfort Mitchell
    Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young (1882–1954) was an American author and playwright who wrote under her maiden name Ruth Comfort Mitchell, as well as her married name, Mrs. Sanborn Young. In February 1954, Ruth was found dead in the bathtub.

  • Start of the Battle of Verdun

    Start of the Battle of Verdun

  • British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia

    British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia

  • First of tanks at the Somme

    First of tanks at the Somme

  • Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started

    Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
    Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started

  • USA declared war on Germany

    USA declared war on Germany

  • British tanks won a victory at Cambrai

    British tanks won a victory at Cambrai

  • Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army

    Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army

  • The advance of the Allies was successful

    The advance of the Allies was successful

  • Turkey made peace

    Turkey made peace

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declares war on Germany

  • Canada declares war on Germany

  • Soviet Union invades eastern Poland

  • The surrender of Warsaw

  • Soviet Union invades Finland

  • Finland signs peace treaty with Soviet Union

  • Germany begins occupation of Denmark and invades Norway

  • Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg

  • British Prime Minister, Chamberlain, resigns, replaced by Churchill

  • Holland surrenders to Germany

  • Belgium surrenders to Germany

  • Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • German army enters Paris

  • France signs armistice with Germany

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germans capture Athens

  • Operation Barbarossa - Germany invades Soviet Union

  • Germans attack Moscow

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

  • Japan declare war on USA

  • Germany declares war on USA

  • Singapore falls to Japanese

  • Battle of Midway - 4 Japanese carriers sunk

  • Sevastopol falls to Germans

  • Battle of El Alamein begins

  • German surrender at Stalingrad

  • Surrender of Axis forces in North Africa

  • Operation Husky - Allied landings in Sicily

  • Mussolini's Italian Fascist government overthrown

  • Italy signs armistice

  • Rome captured by Allies

  • Operation Neptune/Overlord - Allied invasion of Normandy

  • Operation Anvil - Allied landings in South of France

  • Allies liberate Paris

  • Soviets capture Warsaw

  • The battle of Iwo jima

    The americans faought Japan on the island of Iwo Jima, outside the coast of Japan. The battle lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26 where the americans had suffered a great loss of lives due to a japanese ambush, but they eventually won due to the fact that the japanese soldiers eventually ran out of supplies.

  • US landings on Iwo Jima

  • US President Roosevelt dies - Truman becomes President

  • Soviets capture Vienna

  • Soviets enter Berlin

  • Mussolini captured by partisans and executed

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • German forces in Italy surrender

  • German forces in Italy surrender

  • German forces in Holland, Denmark and N W Germany surrender

  • German unconditional surrender

  • VE Day declared

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Japanese surrender