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Germany invades Poland, World War 2 begins.
Germany invades poland because Hitler wanted to have the Jews killed and start a war because Germany was very low on ecomics. -
Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3
Within a month, Poland was defeated by a combination of German and Soviet forces and was partitioned between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany.
At 1115 BST the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired. He said the British ambassador to Berlin had handed a final note to the German government this morning saying unless it announced plans to withdraw from Poland by 1100, a state of war would exist between the two countries. -
Russia invades Poland
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Russia invades Finland
In August 1939, Finland is apportioned to the Soviet Union as part of the nonaggression pact with Germany. In October, the Finns and Soviets try to reach a diplomatic solution to their differences. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wants more territory around Leningrad, control of islands in the Gulf of Finland, and control of the Finish port city of Hanko. The Finns counter by offering much less; when Stalin refuses, it is clear that war is coming. The Finns begin to mobilize their forces on October -
Russia-Finland war ends. It convinces Hitler that the Russian military is ineffective.
Russia-Finland war ends. It convinces Hitler that the Russian military is ineffective. -
Italian bombers raid Alexandria.
In direct response to the devastating British attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, the Vichy French government of Marshal Petain breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain. I leave it to the nation and I leave it to the United States. Italian bombers raid Malta. German Stukas and MTBs attack a British convoy South of Portland, sinking 5 merchant ships. -
7/5/1940
In retaliation for the British action at Mers-el-Kebir, Vichy French warships based at Dakar capture 3 British merchant ships, while French aircraft stationed in Morocco attack British shipping off Gibraltar. -
After spending 8 weeks in the west supervising the German offensive, a triumphant Hitler returns to Berlin and is cheered wildly by the population of Berlin.
German aircraft and minesweepers sink 4 British submarines, Narwhal, Spearfish, Shark and Thames. The first German U-boat base in France is opened at Lorient. -
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. Three days later, Japanese allies Germany and It -
Japanese forces invades Indonesia
The occupation was the first serious challenge to the Dutch in Indonesia—it ended the Dutch colonial rule—and, by its end, changes were so numerous and extraordinary that the subsequent watershed, the Indonesia Revolution, was possible in a manner unfeasible just three years earlier. Under German occupation itself, the Netherlands had little ability to defend its colony against the Japanese army, and less than three months after the first attacks on Borneo the Japanese navy and army overra -
Japanese forces invade Burma
Burma and nominally declared Burma independent as the State of Burma on 1 August 1943. A puppet government led by Ba Maw was installed. Aung San, father of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi,nationalist leaders formed the Anti-Fascist Organisation (later renamed Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League), which asked Great Britain to form a coalition with other Allies against the Japanese. By April 1945, the Allies had driven out the Japanese. Subsequently, negotiations began between the Burmese -
Aug 23 - The German 6th army reach Stalingrad, the battle of Stalingrad begins.
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 (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was the largest battle on the Eastern Front and was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with the higher estimates of comb -
The last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
On this day, the last of the German forces fighting at Stalingrad surrender, despite Hitler's earlier declaration that "Surrender is out of the question. The troops will defend themselves to the last!" -
The battle of Kursk begins
The Battle of Kursk took place when German and Soviet forces confronted each other on the Eastern Front during World War II in the city of Kursk, in the Soviet Union in July and August 1943. -
the besieged Soviet Union city of Leningrad,
where an estimated one million people had died from starvation, disease, and constant shelling, was finally fully freed from encirclement after almost 900 days. This was just one of the small victories that led to the D-Day invasion and the end of World War II.It was the end of a terrible epic of suffering in which the old had been sacrificed to save the young on the principle of Soviet Union doctrine that "he who does not work does not eat." Life in wartime Leningrad represented the idea of "to -
The Russians liberate the Auschwitz death camp
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President Roosevelt dies.
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Germany surrenders. The war in Europe ends
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Russia declares war on Japan
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World War 2 finally ends.
Japan surrenders by the soviet union.
