World War 2

By Kayla Ball

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Britian and France declare war on Germany

  • The Polish capital of Warsaw surrenders to Germany

  • Germany and the Solviet Union divides Poland between them

  • The Solviet Union invades Finland

  • Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

  • Operation Dynamo evactuates over 330,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France

  • Italy declairs war on Britian and France

  • German troops enter Paris, France

  • France surrenders, and Germany governs northern France

  • The Battle of Britian begins

  • German bombers begin Blitz against British cities

  • Italy invades Egypt

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact

  • The Battle of Britian ends

  • British and Australian troops capture Tobruk, Libya

  • Bulgiria joins the Axis

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • The British sink the Bismark

  • Operation Barbarossa: Germany invades the Solviet Union

  • The Siege of Leningrad begins: German and Finnish troops surround the Solviet city

  • Japan attacks the US fleet at Pearl Harbor and starts to invade Malaya

  • Britian and the US declare war on Japan

  • Germany declares war on the US

  • Hong Kong surrenders to the Japanese

  • The Japanese captured Singapore

  • First prisinors at Aushwits, Poland, are gassed

  • The US halts Japanese advance at the Battle of the Coral Sea

  • The US defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Midway

  • The battle for the Solviet city of Stalingrad begins

  • Britian defeats Germany at El Alamein, North Africa

  • US and Britian troops land in northwest Africa

  • The German army is defeated at Stalingrad

  • The US captures the Solomon Island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese

  • Nazi troops attack the Warsaw ghetto in Poland

  • The German Army in North Africa surrenders

  • Allied troops invade Sicily, Italy

  • Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown

  • Allied troops invade mainlan Italy. As a result, Italy surrenders.

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • In the Solviet Union, the Siege on Leningrad ends after two years and three months

  • Japan attempts an invasion on India

  • D-Day: Allied force lands in Normandy, France, and presses inland US troops in the Philippines

  • The Allies liberate the French city of Paris

  • US troops land in the Philippines

  • British and US troops cross the Rhine River, Germany

  • Adolf Hitler, Channcellor of Germany, commited suicide

  • Germany unconditionally surrenders

  • V-E (Victory in Europe) Day

  • The US drops "little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • The US troops drop "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

  • V-J (Victory in Japan) Day following Japan's surrender

  • Permanent United Nations (UN) is founded