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Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
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Germany and Soviet Union invaded Poland for both sides, starting WWII
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
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Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.
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Germans bomb Paris and Dunkirk evacuation ends.
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis and Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
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First British air raid on Berlin.
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Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
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First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
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Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
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First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Nazis take Kiev.
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbon and imediatly afterwards USA declares war with Japan.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but mo
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Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.
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Formal Surrender of Japan
