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world war 2

By gabyyangie

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech

    "In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Spanish civil war ends

  • Naziz and Soviets sing Pact

    Soviet Russia' Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Josef Stalin look on, while standing under a portrait of Lenin – August 23, 1939. News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War II with Hitler assured his troops would not have to fight a war on two fronts.

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand

    declare war on Germany

  • British Royal Air Force Attaks the Germany Navy

  • Canada declares war on Germany

    Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Soviets attack Finland

  • Finland sings a peace treaty with soviets

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis

  • Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Germans enter Paris

  • Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich

  • Hitler tours Paris

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic

  • French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain

  • Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

  • German bombing offensive againstairfields and factories in england

  • Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles

  • Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion(The invasion of Britain)

  • German Blitz against Britain begins

  • Italians invade Egypt

  • United States military conscription bill passed

  • Tripartite Germany, Italy and Japan

  • German troops enter Romania

  • Italy invades Greece

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S president

  • Germans bomb Coventry England

  • Hungary joins the Axis Powers

  • Greeks defeat the Italy 9th Army

  • Romania joins the Axis Powers

  • German general ErwinRommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa

  • British forces arrive in Greece

  • President Roosevelt sings the Lend-Lease Act

  • Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia

  • Rommel attacks tobruk

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis

  • Greece surrenders to the Nazis

  • German attack on Tobruk isrepulsed

  • German bombing of London

  • British bomb Hamburg

  • The british counter-attack in egypt

  • Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy

  • Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq

  • Allies invade Syria and Lebanon

  • Germany attacks Soviet Union as operation Barbarossa begins

  • Germans capture Minsk

  • Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy

  • Mutual assistance agreement between British and soviets

  • British occupy Syria

  • United Atates announces an oil embarge against agressor states

  • Nazi siege of Leningrad begins

  • Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

  • First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Nazis take Kiev

  • Germans take Odessa

  • Germans take Kharkov

  • Germans reach Sevastopol

  • Germans take Rostov

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Hitler declares war on the United States

  • Hitler takes complete control of the German Army

  • Declaration of the United Nations signedby 26 Allied nations

  • Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of U.S.A

  • First American forces arrive in great Britain

  • German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain

  • German summer offensive begins in the Crimea

  • Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line

  • Hedrich dies of wounds

  • Germans besiege Sevastopol

  • Rommel captures Tobruk

  • General Dwight D.Eisenhower arrives in London

  • Fiest Battle of El Alamein

  • Germans take Sevastopol

  • Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends

  • Treblinka extermination camp opened

  • Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow

  • First all-American air attack in Europe

  • Massive German air raid on Stalingrad

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder

  • Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein)

  • Operation Torch begins (U.S invasion of North Africa)

  • Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France

  • Professor Enrique Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago

  • Rommel withdraws from El Agheila

  • Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR

  • Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships

  • Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad

  • Montgomery´s Eighth Army takes Tripoli

  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshave)

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler´s armies

  • Soviet troops take Kursk

  • Soviets re-take Kharkov

  • Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich

  • Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa

  • Germans re-capture Kharkov

  • Waffen-Ss Attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto

  • Allies take Tunisia

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

  • "Pointblank" directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued

  • Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk

  • Allies land in Sicily,Allies bomb Rome

  • Americans capture Palermo, Sicily

  • British bombing raid on Hamburg

  • Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls

  • Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg

  • Germans evacuate Sicily

  • American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany

  • Soviet troops recapture Kharkov

  • Italian surrender to Allies is announced; Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto

  • Germans occupy Rome

  • Germans rescue Mussolini

  • Allies enter Naples, Italy

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin at Teheran

  • Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front

  • Soviet troops advance into Poland

  • First attack toward Cassino Italy

  • Allies land at Anzio in Italy

  • Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege

  • Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino

  • Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead

  • Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front

  • Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins

  • Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea

  • Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol

  • Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome

  • Germans withdraw to the Adolfo Hitler Line

  • Germans retreat from Anzio

  • Allies enter Rome

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France

  • Soviet offensive against the finnish front begins

  • Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France

  • First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain

  • U.S troopes Liberate Cherbourg France

  • "Battle of the Hedgerows" in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk

  • British and Canadiantroops capture Caen, France

  • French capture Strasbourg

  • Civil war in Greece; Athens placed under martial law

  • Period: to

    Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes

  • Patton relieves Bastogne

  • Soviet troops besige Budapest

  • Period: to

    Germans withdraw from the Ardennes

  • Soviet troops captured Warsaw, Poland

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

  • Period: to

    Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta

  • Period: to

    Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids

  • Lat German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary

  • Allies take cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen

  • Soviets troops captured Danzig

  • U.S trops encircle Germans in the Ruhr

  • Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps

  • Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin.

  • German forces in the Ruhr surrender

  • Siviets reach Berlin

  • Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans;Allies take Venice

  • U.S 7th Army liberates Dachau

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • German troops in Italy surrender

  • V-E (Victory in Europe) Day

  • SS-Reichfuhrer Himmler commits suicide

  • Allies divide up Germany and Berlin Nd take over the government

  • United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco

  • American,British and French troops move into Berlin

  • First U.S atomic bomb test

  • Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan

  • Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria

  • Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Japanese agree to unconditional surrender

  • Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day

  • United Nations is born

  • Nuremberg war crime trials begin