WWII major events timeline

By GGAD

  • Germany invades Poland

    The Blitzkrieg

  • Britain and France declare War on Germany

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    Phoney War

    No fighting except Naval Battles
    “Sitskrieg”

  • Germany invades Norway & Denmark

    Chamberlain resigns

  • German invasion of France

  • Operation Dynamo

    Dunkirk Evacuation
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    Operation Dynamo

    Dunkirk Evacuation
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    Battle of Britain

  • Vichy France

    work with the Germans under Marshall Petain

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Germany invades USSR
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    Siege of Leningrad

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    Battle of Moscow

    Germany lost the war and started retreating.

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Made U.S.A. enter WWII

  • Battle of Midway

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    Battle of Midway

    After this battle, Japan changed from offense to defense
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    First major German loss

  • 2nd Battle of El-Alamein

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    2nd Battle of El-Alamein

    Rommel in full retreat
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    Operation Torch

    Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa

  • Casablanca Conference

    Roosevelt and Churchill plan the next phase of the war

  • N.A. campaign ends

    Axis troops in Africa surrender
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    Battle of Kursk

    The Nazis unable to gather considerable forces against Russia.
    The Soviets began to counterattack

  • Operation Overlord

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    Operation Overlord

    Battle of Normandy

  • Battle of the Bulge

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    Battle of the Bulge

    last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front

  • Yalta Conference

    US& UK & USSR discuss Germany & Europe's post war reorganization

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

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    Battle of Iwo Jima

    Japan's last stand to defend the homeland

  • WWII in Europe ends

    Hitler committed suicide and Winston Churchill announced victory

  • Potsdam Conference

    The last WWII meetings held by ' big three'
    Truman & Clement Attlee & Stalin

  • hiroshima and nagasaki

    atomic bombing

  • WWII ends

    formal surrender of Japan