The second World War (II)

  • - 16th of September

    April 27 - Auschwitz established
    May 10 - Germany invades France, Belgium and the Netherlands
    May 26 - Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France
    June 10 - Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
  • - 11th of December

    March 11 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill
    May 24 - The British ship Hood is sunk by Germany's Bismarck
    May 27 - The Bismarck is sunk
    June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
    August 9 - Atlantic Conference begins
    September 8 - Siege of Leningrad begins
    December 7 - The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
    December 11 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and It
  • - 8th of November

    January 20 - The Wannsee Conference
    February 19 - Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans
    April 18 - The Doolittle Raid on Japan
    June 3 - The Battle of Midway begins
    July 1 - First Battle of El Alamein begins
    July 6 - Anne Frank and her family go into hiding
    August 2 - Guadalcanal Campaign begins
    August 21 - Battle of Stalingrad begins
    October 23 - Second Battle of El Alamein begins
    November 8 - The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch)
  • - 28th of November

    January 14 - Casablanca Conference begins
    February 2 - The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union
    April 19 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
    July 5 - Battle of Kursk begins
    July 25 - Mussolini resigns
    September 3 - Italy surrenders
    November 28 - Tehran Conference begins
  • - 16th of December

    January 27 - After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over
    June 6 - D-Day
    June 19 - Battle of the Philippine Sea
    July 20 - Assassination attempt against Hitler fails
    August 4 - Anne Frank and her family are discovered and arrested
    August 25 - The Allies liberate Paris
    October 23 - Battle of Leyte Gulf begins
    December 16 - Battle of the Bulge begins
  • - 9th of August

    February 4 - Yalta Conference begins
    February 13 - Allies begin bombing Dresden
    February 19 - Battle of Iwo Jima begins
    April 1 - Battle of Okinawa
    April 12 - Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
    April 16 - Battle of Berlin begins
    April 28 - Mussolini is hanged by Italian partisans
    April 30 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide
    May 7 - Germany signs an unconditional surrender
    July 17 - Potsdam Conference begins
    August 6 - The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
    August 9 - The United Sta