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Invasion Of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. This battle was also known as Blitzkrieg. -
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The Red Army Invades Finland
In the late 1930s Joseph Stalin became concerned about the Soviet Union being invaded from the West. Stalin said that Leningrad was only thirty-two kilometres from the Finnish border. After attempts to negotiate the stationing of Soviet troops in Finland failed, Joseph Stalin ordered the Red Army to invade them. -
Germany Invades Norway and Denmark
Even though the occupation of Norway and Denmark had no significant effect on the outcome of the war, it established a milestone in the history of warfare. -
Evacuation From Dunkirk Begins
The evacuation of 340,000 soldiers of the UkBritish and flag French armies from the beaches of Dunkirk. -
Battle Of Britain Begins
Battle of Britain is the name commonly given to the effort by the Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF). -
Start Of The Blitz
On the 7th September, 1940 the German airforce began bombing London. On the first day of the Blitz killed 430 citizens and 1,600 were severely injured. The German bombers returned the next day and a further 412 died. -
Japanese Forces Attack Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 on the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Hong Kong surrendered
Hong Kong Surrenders To Japan. -
The raid on St. Nazaire
More VC’s were won during the raid than at any other operation in World War Two that took same amount of time. St. Nazaire, -
Start of the battle of Midway.
The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific. -
Raid on Dieppe.
On 19 August 1942, a disastrous seaborne raid was launched by Allied forces on the German-occupied French port of Dieppe. -
United States declares war on Germany and Italy
United States formally declares war on Germany and Itlay. -
The aircraft factories are bombed
aircraft factories at Bremen are bombed by 115 B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Army; most returned unscathed and German aviation suffers another blow. -
The Dam Buster Raid
The night of the Dambusters Raid was fairly successful. The Möhne Dam was attacked first, but although the first bomb that was dropped fell short of the dam. -
Italy Surrenders
Italy surrenders to the British and USA. -
D-Day
More than 5,000 ships, from battleships to landing craft carried, escorted and landed the assault force along the Normandy coast. -
Winston Churchill announces VE Day
Victory In Europe. -
Japan invades Manchuria
In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. -
United States Army Air Force drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
The atomic bomb had terrible effects on the people in Nagasaki, It killed 75,000 innocent people. -
Surrender of Japan
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government.
