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Germany invades Poland
This event is what started World War II. The invasion took place from 1 September to 6 October 1939. This caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain, and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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Operation Sea Lion
Combatants:
UK, Nazi Germany, Poland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kingdom of Italy, Free French.
Operation Sealion was the name given by Hitler for the planned invasion of Great Britain in 1940. Operation Sealion was never carried out during the war as the Germans lost the Battle of Britain and it is now believed that Hitler was more interested in the forthcoming attack on Russia as opposed to invading Britain. -
France signs armistice with Germany
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Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
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Evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
The Evacuation of Dunkirk was a British mission to rescue Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk France, from 26 May to 4 June 1940. 300,000 Allied soldiers were trapped in Dunkirk by the German army after the Battle of Dunkirk but the German Commanders did not order an attack against the surrounded city. Winston Churchill then ordered all ships and boats available to head for Dunkirk to pick up the soldiers.
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Battle of Britain
Combatants:
United Kingdom - Nazi Germany - Kingdom of Italy.
On June 17, 1940, the defeated French signed an armistice and quit World War II. Britain now stood alone against the power of Germany’s military forces, which had conquered most of Western Europe in less than two months. -
Italy enters war on Side of Axis Powers
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Tripartite Pact Signed
The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. This formalising of the alliance was aimed directly at “neutral” America–designed to force the United States to think twice before venturing in on the side of the Allies. -
Siege of Tobruk
Between April and August 1941 around 14,000 Australian soldiers were besieged in Tobruk by a German–Italian army commanded by General Erwin Rommel. The garrison, commanded by Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, consisted of the 9th Division (20th, 24th, and 26th Brigades), the 18th Brigade of the 7th Division, along with four regiments of British artillery and some Indian troops. -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbour
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Britain and US Declare war on Japan
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Japan takes Singapore
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Battle of Midway
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First battle of Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
Second Battle of Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. -
D-Day Landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign in its western theater during World War II.
Location: The Ardennes: Belgium, Luxembourg
Dates: 16 Dec. 1944 – 25 Jan. 1945
Combatants:
United States of America
Nazi Germany
United Kingdom
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Mussolini captured and executed
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Hitler commits suicide
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German Forces Surrender
On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
V.E. Day
Victory in Europe -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima on Aug 06, 1945 -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
At the order of President Harry S. Truman during the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. -
Soviet Union declares war on Japan
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Japanese Surrender - end of WWII
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. -
United Nations are Born
The United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, 1945, is now effective and ready to be enforced. The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations.
