WWII

By noah1311

  • Russia allies with Axis powers

  • Poland invaded

    Luftwaffe bomb several targets, signaling the start of the invasion of Poland by Germany.

  • USA declares neutrality

  • Warsaw surrenders to Germany

    Polish government flees into exile

  • Germany prepares to invade denmark and norway

  • Battle of Hauge

    German paratroopers landed in Hauge trying to force the queen of the Netherkands to surrender but were held off.first opposed paratroop drop.
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    Germany attacks western europe

    France and other neutral low countries

  • Italy enters the war

    attacks south France

  • Germany, Japan and Italy sign Tripartite act

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    Germany and Axis invade soviet Union

    Germany over runs Baltics and attacks leningrad(st. Petersburg). They also suceed in capturing Kiev On december 6th the germans are driven from much of Moscow by a strong counteroffensive.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    U.S declares war the next day and enter the war.
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    U.S and Britan stop Japan's Island-hopping advance towrds Australia

  • D day

    Allied forces storm the coast of normandy and sucesfully capture it. nearly 8,000 casualties for the Allies alone.
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    Allies free Paris from Nazi control

    by december nearly all of France is freed.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    final German offensive. By january, the germans are in full retreat.

  • Soviets invade Berlin

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • U.S drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • U.S drops bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japan fomally surrenders, ending WWII