Events of WW2

By Haydos1234

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation

    Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern

    The Anti-Comintern was a pact between Germany and Japan against the Soviet Union

  • Japan invades China

  • Italy joins Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact

    At this point the Anti-Comintern Pact developed from an anti-soviet to an anti-western pact

  • Czechoslovak Republic is ceded to Nazi Germany

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the Polish borders

  • Italy invades Albania

  • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression agreemen

  • Germany invades Poland, initiating WWII

    Germany invades Poland, initiating WWII

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany as part of their guarantee with Poland

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland’s east border

  • Germany invades France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

  • France signs an armistice with Germany

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    Battle of Britain takes place

  • Tripartite Pact signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan

  • Italy invades Greece

  • Tobruk falls to the German Afrika Korps

  • President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

    This allowed the US to lend or lease weapons and other war materials to any country whose defense was deemed vital to the US

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Operation Barbarossa begins

    Germany launches a massive invasion of the Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan launches a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the US into World War II

  • Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin

    Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin
    This was to garner support for the ‘final solution’. This saw Germany drastically increase their genocidal efforts towards the Jewish population of Europe.

  • Japanese forces bomb Darwin

  • US navy defeats Japanese forces at the battle of Midway

  • Battle of El Alamein begins

    Allied forces were largely comprised of ANZAC forces.

  • HMAS Canberra is attacked and sunk while aiding American vessels near the Solomon Islands

  • Australian forces retake Kokoda from Japanese forces

  • Battle of Stalingrad ends

    German 6th army is the first German infantry unit to surrender during war

  • Italy surrenders to allied forces

    Mussolini is aided by German forces to escape and set up government in Northern Italy

  • Allies liberate Rome and successfully bomb targets in Eastern Germany

  • Normandy invasion

  • Allies invade France and successfully push back German forces

  • French forces, some of Belgium and part of the Netherlands are liberated

  • Germans lose the battle of the Bulge

  • The Soviets liberate Warsaw and Krakow

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany signs a surrender to the allied forces

  • The United States drops an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

    The United States drops an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

  • The United States drops an Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japan formally surrenders, ending World War 2