Battle of

World War II

By Hope95

  • World War II

    World War II
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    World War II

  • Hitler Declares War

  • Hitler order a German battleship to be blown up

  • Nazis invade Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

  • Chamberlain resigns as Britain's prime minister; Churchhill take over

  • Germans cross French frontier

  • using air/tank/infantry “Blitzkrieg” tactics. Dunkerque evacuation > about 335,000 out of 400,000 Allied soldiers rescued from Belgium by British civilian and naval craft

  • Italy declares war on France and Britain; invades France

  • Germans enter Paris; city undefended

  • France and Germany sign armistice at Compiègne

  • Nazis bomb Coventry, England

  • Germans launch attacks in Balkans. Yugoslavia surrenders—General Mihajlovic continues guerrilla warfare; Tito leads left-wing guerrillas

  • Nazi tanks enter Athens; remnants of British Army quit Greece Read more: World War II (1939–1945) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html#ixzz1Iwpvv4tV

  • Hitler attacks Russia

  • Atlantic Charter—FDR and Churchill agree on war aims

  • Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Guam force U.S. into war; U.S. Pacific fleet crippled

  • U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Germany and Italy declare war on U.S.; Congress declares war on those countries

  • British surrender Singapore to Japanese

  • Roosevelt orders Japanese and Japanese Americans in western U.S. to be exiled to “relocation centers,” many for the remainder of the war

  • U.S. forces on Bataan peninsula in Philippines surrender

  • U.S. and Filipino troops on Corregidor island in Manila Bay surrender to Japanese Read more: World War II (1939–1945) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html#ixzz1JDxXjDs3

  • Village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia razed by Nazis

  • U.S. and Britain land in French North Africa

  • Casablanca Conference—Churchill and FDR agree on unconditional surrender goal

  • U.S. and British troops land at Anzio on west Italian coast and hold beachhead

  • German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad—turning point of war in RussiaRead more: World War II (1939–1945) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html#ixzz1JDz65jRl

  • Remnants of Nazis trapped on Cape Bon, ending war in Africa

  • U.S. and British troops enter Rome

  • D-Day—Allies launch Normandy invasion

  • Hitler wounded in bomb plot

  • Mussolini deposed; Badoglio named premier

  • Paris liberated

  • Allied troops land on Italian mainland after conquest of Sicily

  • Italy surrenders

  • Nazis seize Rome

  • Athens freed by Allies

  • Americans invade Philippines

  • Cairo Conference: FDR, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek pledge defeat of Japan, free Korea

  • Tehran Conference: FDR, Churchill, Stalin agree on invasion plans

  • Germans launch counteroffensive in Belgium—Battle of the Bulge

  • U.S. and British troops land at Anzio on west Italian coast and hold beachhead

  • U.S. and British troops enter Rome

  • D-Day—Allies launch Normandy invasion

  • Hitler wounded in bomb plot

  • Paris liberated

  • Athens freed by Allies

  • Americans invade Philippines

  • Germans launch counteroffensive in Belgium—Battle of the Bulge

  • Yalta Agreement signed by FDR, Churchill, Stalin—establishes basis for occupation of Germany, returns to Soviet Union lands taken by Germany and Japan; USSR agrees to friendship pact with China

  • Mussolini killed at Lake Como

  • Admiral Doenitz takes command in Germany; suicide of Hitler announced

  • Berlin falls

  • Germany signs unconditional surrender terms at Rheims

  • Allies declare V-E Day

  • Stalin establish council of foreign ministers to prepare peace treaties; plan German postwar government and reparations

  • Potsdam Conference—Truman, Churchill, Atlee

  • A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima by U.S.

  • USSR declares war on Japan

  • Nagasaki hit by A-bomb

  • Japan agrees to surrender

  • V-J Day—Japanese sign surrender terms aboard battleship Missouri