World War II

By pjsantry

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.

    Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
    Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
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    War Period

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.

  • Nazis Invade Poland

  • Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.

  • Soviets Invade Poland

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.

  • Soviets attack Finland

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.

  • Italians invade Egypt.

  • United States military conscription bill passed.

  • Italy invades Greece.

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.

  • Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.

  • United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan.

  • Hitler declares war on the United States.

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.

  • First all-American air attack in Europe.

  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).

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

  • August 4, 1944 - Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.

  • United Nations is born.