WWII Timeline

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  • Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

    Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  • Nazi invasion of Poland

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    Phony War

    After the Blitzkrieg attack, everything seems to have settled, nothing happens.
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    Germany invades Austria and Czechoslovakia

    This was done without any aggression.
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    Germany dominant in North Africa

    Erwin Rommel "Desert fox" together with his panzer divisions was beating the Allied powers up to Spring of 1942

  • German forces reach Paris

  • France surrenders

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    Battle of Britain

    Britain won the battle

  • German occupation of Romania

    The main reason for this occupation was that Germany would have anough raw materials to fuel a long war.

  • German Invasion of Russia

    Operation Barbarossa
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    Siege of Leningrad

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

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    Battle of Midway

    Huge naval loss for Japan
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    Battle of Stalingrad

  • Fall of Guadacanal

  • Germany loses North African Campaign

  • Invasion of Italy through Sicily

    "Operation Husky"

  • New Italian Government signs armistice with the Allies

  • Allies take Rome

  • D-Day

    "Decision Day" invasion by the Allies, on Normandy, France

  • French Forces reach Paris

  • Romania switches sides and joins the Allies

    Romania then gets invaded by the Soviet Union around the same time. Soviet Union takes control.

  • Russia invades Bulgaria

    9 September, Bulgaria steps out of the war.

  • De Gaulle’s administration recognized as legitimate government of France.

    Exact day not known
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    Incendiary bombing of Tokyo by the USA

  • Allies reach Rhine river

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Hiroshima was bombed with an atomic bomb

  • Nagasaki was bombed with an atomic bomb

  • Surrender of Japan