World War Two- Brooke Lindsay By Ms Mullen Jan 1, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germnay Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland and Britain and France give Hitler ultimatum Sep 3, 1939 War declared Dec 17, 1939 Hitler orders the German battleship to be blown up May 10, 1940 Nazis invade Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg May 12, 1940 German cross French frontier May 26, 1940 Allied soldiers rescued from Belgium by British civillian and naval craft Jun 10, 1940 Italy declares war on France and Britain; invades France Nov 14, 1940 Nazis bomb Conventry, England Apr 17, 1941 Germans launch attacks in Balkans. Yugoslavia surrenders Dec 11, 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Guam Dec 11, 1941 U.S, Britain and Australia declare war on Japan Feb 15, 1942 British surrender Singapore to Japanese Jan 14, 1943 Casablanca Conference Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt agree on unconditional surrender goal. Feb 1, 1943 German 6th Army sureenders at Stalingrad turning point of war in Russia Nov 28, 1943 Conference; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin agree on invasion plans Jan 22, 1944 U.S and British troops land at Anzio on west Italian coast and hold beachhead Jun 6, 1944 D-Day- allies launch Normandy invasion Oct 20, 1944 Americans invade Philippines Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini killed at Lake Como May 1, 1945 Suicide of Hitler May 8, 1945 Allies declare V-E Day Aug 6, 1945 A- bomb dropped on Hiroshima by U.S Aug 8, 1945 U.S.S.R declares war on Japan Aug 14, 1945 Japan agress to sureender Sep 2, 1945 V-J Day- Japanese sign sureender terms