Segunda guerra mundial

SECOND WORLD WAR

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    Germany invades Polan

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    -It was the explosive one of the second world war in europa
    -This event was know as "The operation Fall Weiss"

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany.

    Britain and France declare war on Germany.
    This declaration of war was the response towards the invasion of poland

  • Russia invades Poland

    Russia invades Poland
    The Soviets invaded the oriental zone on September 17, as consequence of the signature (Stalin) of the agreement "Ribbentrop-Mólotov" on August 23 with the Germany Nazi

  • The city gives up itself of Warsaw, Poland.

    The city gives up itself of Warsaw, Poland.
    -There gives up itself the city of Warsaw, deposited and bombarded by the troops Nazi.

  • Russia and Germany agree to divide Poland

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • British troops land in Norway.

  • Germany invades Luxembourg, Holland and Belgium

  • British Prime Minister

    Luxembourg and The Netherlands; Winston Churchill appointed British Prime Minister

  • German forces invade France

  • Holland capitulates to Nazis

  • Norway capitulates to Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Nazis take Paris

  • Red Army takes Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

  • Italian Army invades British Somaliland

  • Off-course German bombers accidentally bomb London

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  • Italian Army attacks Egypt

  • Military conscription introduced in United States

  • Tripartite alliance formed between Germany, Italy and Japan

  • German troops occupy Romania

  • British counter-attack begins against Italian Army in North Africa

    10

  • Italian Army attacks Greece

  • Roosevelt re-elected

  • British take Tobruk in North Africa from Nazis

  • British Army attacks Italian Somaliland

  • German Army hastily invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Yugoslavia capitulates to Nazis

  • Greece capitulates to Nazis

  • British Army invades Lebanon and Syria

  • Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland on "peace mission"

  • British counter-attack in Egypt

  • the invasion of the Soviet Union

    Hitler launches operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union

  • Germans capture Soviet city of Minsk

  • Stalin launches "scorched earth" policy

  • Germans capture Soviet city of Kiev

  • German SS mass murders Russian Jews at Kiev

  • Hideki Tojo becomes Prime Minister of Japan

  • Germans capture the Soviet city of Rostov

  • Japanese attack naval base at Pearl Harbor

  • Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Germany declares war on the United States

  • Rommel's Afrika Korps forced to retreat in North Africa

  • Hitler assumes post of Commander in Chief of German Army

  • Allies forge Declaration of the United Nations

  • German U-boats begin sinking ships off American coast in "Operation Drumbeat

  • American citizens of Japanese descent forced into "relocation centers"

  • Germans launch summer offensive in the Crimea

  • Royal Air Force launches first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne, German

  • Japanese Navy...

    Japanese Navy resoundingly defeated at Battle of Midway--war reaches its turning point in the Pacific; S.S. Leader Rheinhardt Heydrich dies of wounds sustained in partisan attack at Prague

  • German Afrika Korps recaptures Tobruk

  • Sevastopol falls to German Army

  • Allied invasion of North Africa begins in "Operation Torch"

  • Soviet forces encircle German Sixth Army at Stalingrad

  • German and British ships engage in the Battle of the Barents Sea

  • German Army retreats from Caucasus

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  • Red Army begins siege of German-occupied Stalingrad

  • British forces take Tripoli

  • U.S...

    U.S. Air Force opens daylight bombing campaign with attack on Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  • German Sixth Army..

    German Sixth Army at Stalingrad surrenders to the Russians; war in Europe reaches its turning point

  • Red Army takes Kursk

  • 14-25- February...

    Battle of Kasserine Pass fought in North Africa between German and U.S. forces

  • Red Army retakes Kharkov

  • Germany Army recaptures Kharkov

  • S.S. begins "liquidation" of the Warsaw ghetto

  • Nazis order destruction of Polish ghettos

  • American forces take Palermo, Sicily

  • Mussolini and the Fascists overthrown

    25-26 of June

  • Allied bombing raid creates firestorm in Hamburg, Germany

    27-28 of June

  • German Army occupies Italy

  • Nazi commandos rescue Mussolini

  • Soviets begin large offensive in Ukraine

    24 - 26 of December

  • Red Army advances into Poland

  • Allied forces land at Anzio, Italy

  • Red Army breaks 900-day siege of Leningrad

  • American forces invade Kwajalein

  • Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol

  • D-Day: invasion of Europe begins with Allied landings at Normandy

  • Red Army advances into Finland

  • Germans begin launching V-1 rockets against London

  • American marines invade Saipan

  • American forces liberate Cherbourg

  • Hitler survives assassination attempt

  • Soviet forces liberate concentration camp at Majdanek

  • Polish Home Army begins revolt against Nazis in Warsaw

  • Brussels liberated

  • Allies invade Southern France

  • Soviet forces invade Romania

    19-20 of August

  • Paris liberated

  • Antwerp liberated

  • Soviets and Finns sign peace treaty

  • American troops reach the Siegfried Line in western Germany

  • Nazis brutally crush revolt in Warsaw; Allies advance into Germany

  • British invade Greece

  • British liberate...

    British liberate Athens; Rommel forced to commit suicide for alleged involvement in July assassination plot against Hitler

  • 23- 26 of October...

    U.S. naval forces destroy remnants of Japanese Navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval engagement in history

  • Civil war erupts in Greece; Japanese retreat in Burma

  • American forces invade Phillipine island of Mindoro

  • American forces invade Phillipine island of Luzon

  • Red Army liberates Warsaw

  • German lines on Eastern Front collapse; full retreat begins

  • American forces liberate Manila in the Phillipines; Finland declares war on Germany

  • Tokyo firebombed

  • American troops encircle German forces in the Ruhr

  • Franklin Delano and Harry Truman

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of stroke; Harry Truman becomes President; Allies liberate Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps

  • Mussolini hanged by Italian partisans; Venice falls to Allied forces

  • Dachau concentration camp liberated

  • All German forces in Italy surrender

  • Victory in Europe (VE) Day

  • SS Reichfuhrer Heinrich Himmler commits suicide

  • First U.S. atomic bomb tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico; Potsdam Conference begins

  • First atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima

  • Soviet Union declares war on Japan; Soviet forces invade Manchuria

  • Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Victory over Japan (VJ) Day

  • Hermann Goring commits suicide; 11 other war criminals hanged

  • Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal begins

  • United Nations meets for first time in London