WWII Events Timeline

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    -Encyclopedia of WWII

  • Britain declares war on Germany - detail

    In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.

  • Britain declares war on Germany - significance

    Britain's decleration of war on Germany marks the start of World War 2. This later lead to the Blitzkrieg.

  • The Battle of Dunkirk - detail

    A part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 24 May to 4 June 1940.

  • The Battle of Dunkirk - Significance

    France felt deeply betrayed. The British troops had ostensibly come to their rescue, but then fled the German army. Without any hope left from across the Channel, France surrendered to Hitler within three weeks. Notwithstanding the many French soldiers rescued at Dunkirk, many in France resented what they regarded as British cowardice.

  • Battle of Britian - significance

    The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. The Battle of Britain marked the first defeat of Hitler’s military forces.

  • Battle of Britian

    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom from 10 of July to 31 of October 1940.

  • The Blitz - significance

    The Blitz and what was known as ‘Black Saturday’ was the start in Britain of what Poland and Western Europe had already experienced – total war.

  • The Blitz - detail

    The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, in World War II. The name is a shortening of the German term, "Blitzkrieg", or "Lightning War". While the "Blitz" hit many towns and cities across the country, it began with the bombing of London for 57 nights in a row.

  • Operation Barbarossa - detail

    Operation Barbarossa beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.

  • Operation Barbarossa - significance

    Germany eventually lost on all three major battles that began then, although they came into view of the Kremlin in Moscow. Stalingrad cost them their biggest, best equipped army, and was the real turning point for the whole war in Europe. On Februay 2, 1943, after beginning the battle in July the previous year, German Field Marshall Von Paulus surrendered.

  • Tojo takes control of Japan - detail

    Hideki Tōjō (December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944.

  • Tojo takes control of Japan - significance

    As Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo was directly responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States.

  • Pearl Harbour - significance

    The assault on pearl harbour on 7th December 1941 by the Japanese army was important as it left America with the will to fight and the passion to win the war in at least a year less than it would otherwise. The attack's greatest benefit to the U.S. was subtle but crucial as the shock, anger and guilt that it caused stirred a war morale that no other American leader could have anticipated.

  • Pearl Harbour - detail

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

  • Fall of Hong Kong - significance

    Hong Kong was the trading outpost of the British Empire and a place were they could keep an eye on commmunst activity in China. Britain was keen to keep this outpost; so when the Japenese invaded Hong Kong it triggered Britian to join the war on the Pacific coast. (even though they were already fighting in Europe). With the fall of Hong Kong the rest of the far East colonies of Britians Empire was opened up giving Japan the oppotunity to attack.

  • Fall of Hong Kong - detail

    The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941) was one of the first battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan invaded British Hong Kong and met the stiff resistance of its garrison, composed of local troops as well as British, Canadian and Indian units. In less than a week the defenders abandoned the mainland, and less than two weeks later, with their position on the island untenable, the colony surrendered.

  • Battle of Stalingrad - significance

    The failure to capture the oil fields cut off the Axis powers from any hope of finding a large enough fuel source to continue an effective war, essentially sealing their fate with that of the 6th Army. This was also Germany's first big befeat.

  • The Battle of Stalingrad - detail

    The Battle of Stalingrad - which occurred between August 23, 1942 and February 2, 1943 - was the major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union.The Soviets defeated the 6th Army, which, in turn, forced the other half of Army Group South (engaged in capturing the Caucasus and Baku oil fields) to withdraw to the north-west to regroup and form a new defensinve line.

  • Allies Invasion of Italy

    The Allied Invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the Second World War. The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. The main invasion force landed around Salerno on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place

  • Allied Invasion of Italy - Significance

    -Italy surrened to the allies
    -It was practice for the D-Day landings,
    -It boosted morale in the military and at home
    -It opened a second front on the continent of Europe to help take some pressure off the USSR, which had been the only country left fighting Germany (on the ground) since 1940

  • Jewish uprising in Warsaw ghetto - significance

    This uprising caused thousands of Jewish people to be sent to death camps and resuled in thousands of deaths.

  • Jewish uprising in Warsaw ghetto - detail

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 ( beyween october and november 16 1943) act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.

  • D-Day - significance

    After The Battle of Dunkirk France felt betrayed by their allies Britaian. It was in D-Day that Britain redeemed itself, when British and American forces collaborated in the D-Day operation, leading to France’s liberation.

  • D-Day - Detail

    On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima - significance

    The United States captured the island of Iwo Jima proven their ablity to defeat the Japnese and they used the Island as a landing base to transport bombs that will later be dropped on the Japenese.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima - detail

    The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki - significance

    Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrender in World War II ending WWII.

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. The two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. (Hiroshima on August 6, 1945) and ( Nagasaki on August 9).