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The beginning of World War II
Germany blitzes Poland:In the early morning of September 1, 1939, Fascist Germany tore up the "German-Polish non-aggression pact", sent the air force to large-scale air raids on Poland's main airport, and carried out a surprise attack on Poland, which opened the prelude to the Second World War. -
World War II officially broke out
On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and World War II officially broke out. -
Canada declared war on Germany
In September 1939, Canada declared war on Germany.The king waited a week to announce the decision deliberately delaying it by a week to show that Canada had its own sovereignty and that the declaration of war had been made by Canada itself not at the behest of Britain. -
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Because of the damage done to Canada by the First World War, King wanted to make the second World War less costly for Canada. So King talked to the British and said that the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan should be implemented by Canada.“The BCATP trained some 131,000 airmen — one-half the total Commonwealth aircrew — a decisive Canadian contribution to victory in the Second World War.”（Reference:https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/second-world-war-timeline） -
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Canada quickly embarked on a massive industrial mobilization. Wartime Prices and Trade Board (Wartime Prices and Trade Board) was established to control inflation and prevent excessive profits. Gasoline, meat, butter, and rubber were rationed, and the Canadian economy quickly emerged from crisis and prospered. -
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National Resources Mobilization Act
The German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940 began the war on the Western Front. Then the Germans swept through the allied forces of Britain and France, the British evacuation of Dunkirk, and the French were quickly defeated. By June Britain was the only holdout in Europe and needed Canada's full support. The Kim administration passed the National Resources Mobilization Act, splitting the Defense Ministry into three and appointing CD Howe as Munitions and Supply. -
Ogdensburg Agreement
On August 17, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King met in Ogdensburg and signed the Ogdensburg Accord. Under this agreement, Canada and the United States established a joint commission to integrate the North American defense system, formally uniting the Canadian and American military forces. -
Canada declared war on Japan
On the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan. -
Atlantic Charter
In August 1941,British Prime Minister Winston Churchill came to Placentia Bay to meet with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the United States and Britain signed the Atlantic Charter, pledging "our two nations to respect the right of peoples to choose their form of government, and to assert that sovereignty and self-government shall be restored to all peoples forcibly deprived of those rights." That means that if the colonists want the British to go home,they have to go back to England. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese government planned a surprise attack on the US Pacific naval fleet base - Pearl Harbor military incident, became the second World War Pacific War outbreak of the fuse.After the attack, Japan officially declared war on the United States.Within days, Nazi Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, and the United States promptly declared war in response. -
Declaration by United Nations
The Declaration issued in Washington by 26 countries, including the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China,the Declaration expressed its support for the Atlantic Charter and its determination to jointly defeat the fascist aggression of Germany, Italy and Japan, and never to negotiate peace with enemy countries alone.This declaration marks the official formation of the International Anti-Fascist Coalition. -
The United States defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway
From June 4 to 7, 1942, the United States Navy and the Japanese Navy fought a decisive naval battle at Midway Island. The U.S. Navy successfully destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser in one of the most important naval battles of World War II.It was the first defeat for the Japanese Navy. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
It was a World War II battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for the southern Soviet city of Stalingrad.From a worldwide perspective, the Battle of Stalingrad is a landmark event in the great turning point of the anti-fascist war, but the battle of Stalingrad did not completely lose the initiative of the German army. -
意大利投降
In 1943, the Italian army was defeated in North Africa, Sicily and the Soviet-German battlefields and surrendered on 8 September.Italy's surrender and declaration of war on Germany marked the disintegration of the axis of fascism, worsening the military and political situation of Hitler's Germany and increasing its international isolation. -
Operation Overlord
The Battle of Normandy was the world's largest landings at sea and fundamentally changed the strategic situation of World War II.Canada was designated as one of the five invasion beaches. -
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Surrender of Japan
In the summer of 1945, the Japanese defeat was certain, but the frantic Japanese resistance in Okinawa and other places resulted in a large number of Allied casualties.On August 6 and 9, the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing numerous civilian and military casualties.On August 15,In order to speed up the process of Surrender of Japan,Emperor Hirohito issued an edict announcing Japan's unconditional surrender. -
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Germany surrenders
In January 1945, the Soviet Army launched an offensive against the Germans, disrupting Hitler's defensive plans. In March, American, British, Canadian and other armies crossed the Rhine River and entered the heart of Germany. In late April, Soviet forces completed the siege of Berlin. On 2 May, Berlin was captured. On 8 May, the representatives of the German High Command formally signed an unconditional surrender. At this point, the war in Europe was basically over.