World war two timeline

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  • Battle of the Atlantic

  • Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR) sign the Nazi-Soviet pact

  • Germany attacks Poland

  • USSR attacks poland from the east. Poland falls and is divided between the Germans and the Russians

  • Slovakia, Hungary, Romania join the axis powers

  • Germany invades and captures Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks Western Europe. Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belium, and Northern France fall.

  • Italy joins the war and, on June 27, invades southern France

  • USSR gains control over the Baltic states.

  • Battle of Britain

  • Italy invades British controlled Egypt

  • Germany, Italy and Japan sign the tripartite pact

  • Italy invades Greece

  • German Afrika Korps are sent to North Africa to Reinforce the Italians

  • Bulgaria joins the Axis Powers

  • Germany joined by Axis allies and Finland attack the USSR

  • The Japanese launch a suprise attack on the U.S naval base in pearl harbour, Hawaii

  • The United States declare war on Japan. Germany and italy soon declare war on the united states

  • The bataan death march begins as the imperial Japanese army forces Filipino and American prisoners of war to march 60 tortured-filled miles.

  • The battle of the coral sea

  • The battle of midway

  • 1st battle of El Alamein

  • The battle of Guadalcanal

  • Battle of stalingrad

  • 2nd Battle of El Alamein

  • the japanese gain control over philippines, dfrench inochina, and singapore

  • Italy surrenders unconditionally

  • Battle of Okinawa

  • Operation overlord, D-Day

  • Paris is liberated

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • Winter war Between USSR and Finland, War ends when Finland cedes border lands to the USSR

  • Yalta Conference

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

  • FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes President

  • Mussolini is executed

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • V-E day

  • Potsdam Conference

  • U.S drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • U.S drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

  • V-J Day