world war 2 by Diego Cardenas Juan Daza By diegos1695 Mar 15, 1939 Nazis take Czechoslovakia. May 22, 1939 Nazis sign a pact with Italy. Aug 23, 1939 Nazis and Soviets sign Pact. (Nazi soviet Pact) Aug 25, 1939 Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty. Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland. Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany. Sep 4, 1939 British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy. Sep 10, 1939 Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins. Sep 17, 1939 Soviets invade Poland. Sep 29, 1939 Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Oct 14, 1939 begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany. Nov 30, 1939 Soviets attack Finland. Dec 14, 1939 Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations. Mar 12, 1940 Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets. Mar 16, 1940 Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland. Apr 9, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark and Norway. May 10, 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. May 26, 1940 Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins (Miracle of Dunkirk: Glorious British resistance). Jun 10, 1940 Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France Jun 14, 1940 Germans enter Paris. Jun 18, 1940 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States Jun 22, 1940 France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany. Jun 28, 1940 Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader. Jul 1, 1940 German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic. Jul 5, 1940 French Vichy government (controlled by Nazis) breaks off relations with Britain. Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins. Jul 23, 1940 Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Aug 3, 1940 Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa Aug 24, 1940 First German air raids on Central London. Aug 25, 1940 First British air raid on Berlin. Sep 3, 1940 Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain). Sep 7, 1940 German Blitzkrieg against Britain begins Sep 13, 1940 Italians invade Egypt (controlled by the British) Oct 28, 1940 Italy invades Greece. Nov 20, 1940 Hungary joins the Axis Powers. Nov 22, 1940 Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army. Nov 23, 1940 Romania joins the Axis Powers Dec 10, 1940 British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians. Dec 29, 1940 Massive German air raid on London. Feb 12, 1941 German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa Mar 7, 1941 British forces arrive in Greece. Apr 6, 1941 Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia. Apr 17, 1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis. Apr 27, 1941 Greece surrenders to the Nazis May 15, 1941 Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt). Jun 8, 1941 Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. Jun 22, 1941 Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins. Jul 12, 1941 Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets. Jul 14, 1941 British occupy Syria Jul 31, 1941 Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution. Aug 1, 1941 United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states. Aug 14, 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter. Aug 20, 1941 Nazi siege of Leningrad begins. Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars. Sep 3, 1941 First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz. Sep 29, 1941 Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev Oct 2, 1941 Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow). Dec 6, 1941 Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow Dec 7, 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree. Dec 8, 1941 United States and Britain declare war on Japan Dec 11, 1941 Hitler declares war on the United States. Dec 16, 1941 Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa Jan 1, 1942 Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations. Jan 1, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz. Jan 13, 1942 Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA. Jan 20, 1942 SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question. Jan 26, 1942 First American forces arrive in Great Britain. May 30, 1942 First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne). Jun 30, 1942 Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt. Jul 1, 1942 First Battle of El Alamein Jul 22, 1942 First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened. Aug 12, 1942 Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow. Aug 17, 1942 First all-American air attack in Europe. Aug 23, 1942 Massive German air raid on Stalingrad, Russia. Sep 13, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad begins. Nov 1, 1942 Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein). Nov 8, 1942 Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa) Nov 11, 1942 Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France. Nov 19, 1942 Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins. Dec 17, 1942 British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged. Jan 10, 1943 Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad. Jan 14, 1943 Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender." Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. May 13, 1943 German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa. Jun 11, 1943 Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland. Jul 4, 1943 Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk. Jul 9, 1943 Allies land in Sicily Jul 27, 1943 Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg. Aug 12, 1943 Americans capture Palermo, Sicily. Sep 8, 1943 Italian surrender to Allies is announced Sep 11, 1943 Germans occupy Rome. Sep 12, 1943 Germans rescue Mussolini. Sep 23, 1943 Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government. Oct 1, 1943 Allies enter Naples, Italy. Oct 13, 1943 Itly declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt. Nov 28, 1943 Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran. Jan 6, 1944 January 6, 1944 - Soviet troops advance into Poland. Mar 18, 1944 British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany. Apr 8, 1944 Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea. Jun 6, 1944 D-Day landings on the northern coast of France. Jun 9, 1944 Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins. Jul 3, 1944 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk. Jul 20, 1944 Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails. Jul 24, 1944 Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek. Jul 25, 1944 Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô). Aug 4, 1944 Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland. Aug 5, 1944 Liberation of Paris. Aug 7, 1944 Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches. Aug 15, 1944 Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France). Sep 1, 1944 Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies. Sep 4, 1944 Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire. Oct 14, 1944 Allies liberate Athens; General Rommel commits suicide. Oct 21, 1944 Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany. Oct 30, 1944 Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz. Jan 17, 1945 Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland. Jan 26, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Feb 5, 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta. Apr 1, 1945 Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in German salt mines. Apr 1, 1945 U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in northern Italy. Apr 16, 1945 Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg. Apr 18, 1945 German forces in the Ruhr surrender Apr 21, 1945 Soviets reach Berlin. Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide May 2, 1945 German troops in Italy surrender. May 7, 1945 Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies. May 8, 1945 V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. Jun 5, 1945 Allies enter Rome. Jun 5, 1945 Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government Jul 1, 1945 American, British, and French troops move into Berlin. Jul 16, 1945 First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins. Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan. Aug 8, 1945 Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria. Aug 9, 1945 Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan. Aug 14, 1945 Japanese agree to unconditional surrender. Aug 24, 1945 United Nations is born. Sep 2, 1945 Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day. Nov 20, 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials begin (Trial against Nazi leaders)
