The Course of World War II

By harperf

  • Germany and Soviet Union divided Poland

  • Blitzkrieg against Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks the Netherlands, Belgium, and France

  • French signed an armistice

  • Hitler invades the Soviet Union

  • The Luftwaffe launched a major attack on Britain

  • Hitler starts bombing British cities

  • Htiler postpones the invasion of Britian indefinitely

  • Japanese aircraft attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor

  • US forces won the Battle of Midway against Japan

  • In the Battle of the Coral Sea American naval forces saved Australia from the Japanese

  • British and American forces invade French North Africa

  • German forces in Russia were back to their positions of June 1942

  • Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered

  • America and Britain forced the German and Italian troops to surrender

  • Hitler knew Germans would not defeat the Soviet Union

  • Battle of Kursk

  • Rome fell to the Allies

  • D-Day

  • Soviet troops occupied Warsaw

  • Hitler enters bunker under Berlin

  • Allies crossed the Rhine River and advanced into Germany

  • Allied armies in northern Germany met up with the Soviets

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • German commanders surrendered

  • First bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima