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WW2

By shevelevajulia

  • Germany invaded Poland

  • Britain and France anounsed ultimatum to Germany

  • Britain started war against Germany

  • Period: to

    Battle of the Atlantic

  • The USA launches the Neutrality Patrol.

  • The USA publicly declared neutrality

  • South Africa, now under Prime Minister Jan Smuts, declares war on Germany

  • France begins a token offensive, moving into German territory near Saarbrücken.

  • Canada declares war on Germany

  • General Gamelin orders a halt to the French advance into Germany

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east

  • The German and Soviet armies link up near Brest Litovsk

  • German home front measures begin with food rationing

  • Following a massive artillery bombardment, the Germans launch a major infantry assault on the centre of Warsaw

  • The remaining Polish army and militia in the centre of Warsaw capitulate to the Germans

  • The Japanese Imperial Army reached the outskirts of Changsha

  • French forces on the French-German border fell back to the Maginot Line in anticipation of a German invasion

  • Latvian representatives negotiate with Stalin and Molotov. Soviets threaten an occupation by force if they do not get military bases in Latvia

  • British forces move to the Belgian border, anticipating a German invasion of the West

  • Chinese army reportedly defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Changsha

  • he last of Poland's military surrenders to the Germans

  • Finns meet Stalin again. Stalin tells that "an accident" might happen between Finnish and Soviet troops, if the negotiations last too long

  • First air attack on Great Britain, aimed at ships in the Firth of Forth, Scotland

  • First Soviet forces enter Estonia

  • Belgium announces that it is neutral in the present conflict

  • Finland and Soviet Union again negotiate new borders. Finns mistrust Stalin's aims and refuse to give up territory breaking their defensive line

  • Negotiations between Finland and Soviet Union break down. Finns doubt that Germans and Russians have agreed to include Finland in the Soviet sphere of influence

  • The Luftwaffe and German U-boats begin mining the Thames estuary

  • The USSR breaks off diplomatic relations with Finland

  • The Soviet Union attacks Finland in what would become known as the Winter War

  • Russia continues its war against Finland

  • The Russians meet with several tactical defeats by the Finnish army

  • The first Canadian troops arrive in Europe

  • Period: to

    Battle of Britain

  • Period: to

    The Blitz

  • Invasion of the USSR

  • Pearl Harbour attack

  • D-Day

  • Bombing of Prague

  • Soviet Union officially pronounces May 9 as the Victory Day

  • Dropping of the Atomic bomb on the Hiroshima

  • Dropping of the atomic bomb on the Nagasaki

  • The official end of the WW2