Key Battles and Events of WWll

By CRE0010

  • Germany invades Poland

    The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south. The Soviet Union was involved.

  • Britain & France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland. At 1115 BST the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired. On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain, and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.

  • Operation Sea Lion

    The outcome of the Operation Sea Lion is the eventual cancellation and diversion of the. German, Italian, and other Axis forces for Operation Barbarossa. It happened in England, Normandy, Kent, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Sussex and Devon.

  • Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    Friday 10 May 1940 was one of the most dramatic days in British history. The government was in disarray as Winston Churchill became PM and, on the continent, Germany ended the Phoney War by invading the Low Countries.

  • Evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

    The Evacuation of Dunkirk happened in Dunkirk France.

  • France signs armistice with Germany

    The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany, also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location in which it was signed, and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain happened in the British airspace on the 10th of July to the 31st of October 1940.

  • Italy enters war on side of Axis powers

    World War II was fought between two major groups of nations. They became known as the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. The major Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The alliance began to form in 1936.

  • Tripartite Pact signed

    The Tripartite Pact signed also known as the Berlin Pact was signed in Berlin.

  • Siege of Tobruk

    The Siege of Tobruk happened on the 10th of April and ended on the 27th of November in 1941 and happened in Tobruk and the Italian Libya.

  • Operation of Barbarossa

    The Operation of Barbarossa happened in a lot of places such as Poland, Eastern Europe, European Russia,Latvia and many more.

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbour

    353 Japanese bombers attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbour. It destroyed 19 ships, 188 aircraft and killed over 2,000 Americans.

  • Britain and US declare war on Japan

    The United States Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbour the day before.

  • Japan takes Singapore

    It was fought in the South-East Asian theatre.

  • Battle of Midway

    The Batte of Midway happened in Midway Atoll, United States.

  • First Battle of El Alamein

    The First Battle of El Alamein happened at El Alamein Egypt. and ended on the 27th of July 1942.

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943 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 El Alamein

    The Second Battle of El Alamein happened in El Alamein Egypt and ended on the 5th of November 1942.

  • D-Day Landings

    D- Day Landings happened in Normandy France.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    The battle of the bulge happened at The Ardennes : Belgium Luxembourg.

  • Mussolini captured and executed

    Mussolini was Captured in Europe and then he was executed by the Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzagra in Northern Italy.

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler’s officers warned him that the Russians were on their way and that it would only take them a day or two to take the chancellery. They urged him to escape to the Bavarian Alps, to a small town in Berchtesgaden, but he chose suicide. There are however theorists that do claim Hitler and Eva managed to escape to South America, where they lived out their lives with their children, but these claims have been discarded by most historians.

  • German forces surrender

    The German forces surrender at the Reims in North western France.

  • V.E day

    V.E day happened in many places such as Great Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Australia.

  • United Nations is born

    On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    The Atomic bomb the was at 8:16 Japanese time had killed approximately 80,000 people and 35,000 people were injured over the city of Hiroahima.

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki

    Nagasaki. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 – a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.”

  • Soviet Union declares war on Japan

    The Soviet Union declared war on Japan at heaps of places e.g Manchuria/Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia/Mengjiang, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and northern Korea.

  • Japanese surrender - End of WWll

    The Japanese Surrendered in Tokyo Bay.