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WW2 Timeline

By IrishGamer2010
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    Nazis Take Czechoslovokia

  • Nazis Sign Pact with Italy

  • Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact

    Non-Aggression Treaty between Germany and Russia

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.

  • British fleet mobilizes

  • German Forces Invade Poland

  • Children Evacuate England

    The U.K. made children evacuate all towns and cities, because they feared the Germans would bomb the cities.

  • 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.

  • Poland surrenders to Nazis

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.

  • Soviets attack Finland.

  • 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.

    Winston Churchill becomes the new British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain, as well.

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • 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.

    This is under German rule, so he's basically a district manager.

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

  • France Surrenders to Germany

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.

  • Hitler tours Paris.

    Hitler tours Paris.

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

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

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

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

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    Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.

  • German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.

  • 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.

  • German Blitz against Britain begins.

  • Italians invade Egypt.

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

  • German troops enter Romania.

  • Italy invades Greece.

  • Germany Breaks it's Pact with Soviet Union

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    Siege of Leningrad

    From the 8th of September, 1941 all the way through the 27th of January, 1944, the Germans surrounded the Soviet city of Leningrad. Around 700,000 Soviet civilians starved.
  • Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • China declares war on Japan.

  • Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam.

  • Japanese invade Burma (Modern Myanmar)

  • First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine.

  • Japanese invade British Borneo (modern Indonesia, Malaysia)

  • Japanese invade Hong Kong.

  • Japanese invade Luzon in the Philippines.

  • General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island.

  • British surrender at Hong Kong.

  • Manila declared an open city.

  • Japanese bomb Manila.

  • Manila and U.S. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese.

  • Japanese attack Bataan in the Philippines.

  • Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo.

  • Japanese begin an advance into Burma.

  • German-Japanese-Italian military agreement signed in Berlin.

  • Japanese take North Borneo.

  • Japanese take Rabaul on New Britain in the Solomon Islands and also invade Bougainville, the largest island.

  • First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine.

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    The British withdraw into Singapore. The siege of Singapore then begins.

  • First U.S. aircraft carrier offensive of the war as YORKTOWN and ENTERPRISE conduct air raids on Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands.

  • D-Day

    D-Day

  • Victory in Europe Day

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • 2nd Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Victory in Japan Day

  • James Kirk, Sr. Birthdate