World War II

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  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia.

    march 15-16

  • Nazis sign a pact with Italy.

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact. (Nazi soviet Pact)

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.

  • Nazis invade Poland.

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.

  • Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.

  • Soviets invade Poland.

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.

    all mont

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.

  • Soviets attack Finland.

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.

  • Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins (Miracle of Dunkirk: Glorious British resistance).

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.

  • Germans enter Paris.

  • Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.

  • Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.

  • French Vichy government (controlled by Nazis) breaks off relations with Britain.

  • Battle of Britain begins.

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

  • Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.

  • Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.

  • First German air raids on Central London.

  • First German air raids on Central London.

  • First British air raid on Berlin.

  • Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain).

  • German Blitzkrieg against Britain begins.

  • Italians invade Egypt (controlled by the British)

  • Italy invades Greece.

  • Hungary joins the Axis Powers.

  • Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army.

  • Romania joins the Axis Powers.

  • British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians.

  • Massive German air raid on London.

  • Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.

  • German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.

  • British forces arrive in Greece.

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Greece surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).

  • First Battle of El Alamein.

  • Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.

  • Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.

  • Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.

  • British occupy Syria.

  • First Battle of El Alamein.

  • Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.

  • United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.

  • Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.

  • Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.

  • Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.

  • Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.

  • First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  • Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.

  • Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow).

  • Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France.

  • Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins.

  • Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan.

  • Hitler declares war on the United States.

  • Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.

  • Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.

  • Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."

  • SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."

  • First American forces arrive in Great Britain.

  • First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne).

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.

    all month

  • Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt.

  • First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.

  • First all-American air attack in Europe.

  • Massive German air raid on Stalingrad, Russia.

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins.

  • Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).

  • Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).

  • 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.

  • Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.

  • Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.

  • Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.

  • Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.

  • Allies land in Sicily.

  • Allies bomb Rome.

  • Americans capture Palermo, Sicily.

  • Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.

  • Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg.

  • Germans evacuate Sicily.

    12-14

  • Italian surrender to Allies is announced.

  • Germans occupy Rome.

  • Germans rescue Mussolini.

  • Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.

  • Allies enter Naples, Italy.

  • Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt.

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.

  • Soviet troops advance into Poland.

  • British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.

  • Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.

  • Allies enter Rome.

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.

  • Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.

  • 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.

  • Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.

  • Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.

  • Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô).

    25-30

  • Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.

  • Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.

  • Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).

  • Liberation of Paris.

  • Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.

    1-4

  • Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.

  • Allies liberate Athens; General Rommel commits suicide.

  • Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany.

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  • Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.

    4-11

  • Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in German salt mines.

  • U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in northern Italy.

  • Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.

  • German forces in the Ruhr surrender.

  • Soviets reach Berlin.

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