World War 2

By currybraden

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Italy's conquest of Ethiopia

  • Spanish Civil War

  • Rome-Berlin Axis formed

  • 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.

  • Annexing of Austria

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.

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

  • Nazi-Soviet nonagresson Pact

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

  • Poland Attacked

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

  • Battle Of Britain

  • Second Vienna Award.

    Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. The loss of northern Transylvania forces Romanian King Carol to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu.

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

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

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

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Battle Of Midway

  • Battle Of Stalinggrad

  • US and British troops land at several pointsy on beaches of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa.

    The failure of the Vichy French troops to defend against the invasion enables the Allies to move swiftly to the western border of Tunisia, and triggers the German occupation of southern France on November 11.

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

  • US and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily.

  • D-Day

  • Battle Of The Bulge

  • Death Of Roosevelt

  • V-E Day

  • Dropping Of The Automic Bomb (Hiroshima)

  • V-J Day

  • Dropping Of The Automic Bomb (Nagasaki)

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