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WW2 (a work in progress (This will not be finished))

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  • The Holocaust starts ( there is more timeline)

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  • WW2 starts

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

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.

  • United States proclaims its neutrality

  • German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.

  • Canada declares war on Germany

  • Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviets invade Poland.

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.

  • Soviets attack Finland.

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.

  • Rationing begins in Britain.

  • 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.

  • Hitler launched a Blitzkrieg against Holland and Belgium. Both countries were occupied.

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • British troops were pushed back to the beach at Dunkirk and had to be rescued by British boats.

  • Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Germans bomb Paris

  • Dunkirk evacuation ends.

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis

  • Italy declares war on Britain and France.

  • Germans enter Paris.

  • Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister.

  • Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich

  • Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.

  • France was occupied by Germany.

  • Hitler tours Paris.

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

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

  • French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.

  • The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain is a famous battle where Germany tried to destroy England’s Air Force.

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

  • Period: to

    italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.

  • German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.

  • Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.

  • Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.

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    First German air raids on Central London.

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    First British air raid on Berlin.

  • Hitler plans the invasion of Britain.

  • German Blitz against Britain begins.

  • Italians invade Egypt.

  • Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.

  • United States military conscription bill passed.

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.

  • German troops enter Romania.

  • Germans postpone the invasion of Britain until Spring of 1941.

  • Italy invades Greece.

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.

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    Torpedo bomber raid cripples the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy.

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    Germans bomb Coventry, England.

  • Hungary joins the Axis Powers.

  • Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army.

  • Romania joins the Axis Powers.

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

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    Massive German air raid on London.

  • Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.

  • British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.

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

  • First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.

  • British forces arrive in Greece.

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.

    this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."

  • A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.

  • Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.

  • Rommel attacks Tobruk.

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Greece surrenders to the Nazis.

  • German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.

  • Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.

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    Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.

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

  • Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck.

  • Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy.

  • Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.

  • Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.

  • United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.

  • Germany attacked Russia (Operation Barbarossa) and had made some gains.

  • Germans capture Minsk.

  • Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Roosevelt died and Truman took over as President

  • V-E day

    end of WW2

  • V-J day

    Japan surrendered to the allies

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