History Of World War 2

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  • Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2

    Germany invades Poland,
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    World War 2

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

  • Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France

  • Italy declares war on France and Great Britain

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • The United States begins its first peacetime draft

  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • The British ship Hood is sunk by Germany's Bismarck

  • The Bismarck is sunk

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)

  • Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno

  • Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon

  • Atlantic Conference begins

  • Siege of Leningrad begins

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev

  • Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka)

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest

  • Soviet winter counteroffensive

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day

  • The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and Italy

  • Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center

  • The Wannsee Conference

  • Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans

  • The Doolittle Raid on Japan

  • The Battle of Midway begins

  • First Battle of El Alamein begins

  • Anne Frank and her family go into hiding

  • Guadalcanal Campaign begins

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • Second Battle of El Alamein begins

  • The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch)

  • Casablanca Conference begins

  • The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union

  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

  • Battle of Kursk begins

  • Italy surrenders

  • Tehran Conference begins

  • After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over

  • D-Day

  • Battle of the Philippine Sea

  • Assassination attempt against Hitler fails

  • Anne Frank and her family are discovered and arrested

  • The Allies liberate Paris

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf begins

  • Battle of the Bulge begins

  • Yalta Conference begins

  • Allies begin bombing Dresden

  • Battle of Iwo Jima begins

  • Battle of Okinawa

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt dies

  • Battle of Berlin begins

  • Mussolini is hanged by Italian partisans

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany signs an unconditional surrender

  • Potsdam Conference begins

  • The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan