SECOND WORLD WAR - A timeline with the most important events by Florencia Mosconi
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Germany and Russia had occupied Poland. -
German forces occupied Denmark and Norway -
Phoney war stopped -
Attacks were made on Holland, Belgium and France -
The battle of Britain -
Mussolini's armies invaded Egypt and Greece -
Operation Barbarrosa - Germany launched anda invasion of Russia breaking the non-aggression pact signed less than two years earlier -
JAPAN.
Japanese forced the USA into the war by atttacking the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Japan occuped the Philippines, Malaya, Singapore and Myanmar. -
The Americans drove off a Japanese attack on Midway island, inflicting heavy losses. -
The Germans had penetrated as far as Stalingrad on River Volga.
The Russians put up such fierce resistance that in the following February the German army was surrounded and forced surrender. -
The Germans under Rommel's orders, advancing towars Egypt, were halted at El-Alamein and later driven out of Noth Africa -
The power and resources of the USA and the USSR, combined with an all-out effort from Britain and her empire, slowly but surely wore the Axies powers down -
Italy was eliminated first, and this was followed by anglo-americans invasion of Normandy which liberated France, Belgium and Holland -
The Russian drove the Germans out and advanced on Berlin via Poland -
Germany and Japan surrendered, after the Americans had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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