WWII Timeline By Brad Bacha and Jesus Villafana

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  • Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation

  • the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.

  • Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenlan

  • Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

  • Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

  • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

  • Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.

  • Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.

  • Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.

  • The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War.

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.

  • Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.

  • Germany attacks western Europe—France and the neutral Low Countries.

  • The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.

  • The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States

  • Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary.

  • The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

  • Italy invades Greece

  • The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

  • Bulgaria joins the Axis.

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union

  • A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.

  • British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.

  • US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

  • Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.

  • The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.

  • The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.

  • Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples

  • Soviet troops liberate Kiev.

  • Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.

  • Allied troops liberate Rome. Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in eastern Germany for the first time.

  • British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.

  • Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops, enter the French capital

  • US troops land in the Philippines.

  • The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat.

  • The Soviets launch a new offensive, liberating Warsaw and Krakow

  • The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.

  • Hitler commits suicide.

    Hitler commits suicide.

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets.

  • Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

  • The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.

  • Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.