WW2

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  • Japan invades China

  • Germany takes over Czechoslovakia

  • German Troops Invade Poland

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • France surrenders to Germany

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    The Blitz

    Night after night, from September 1940 until May 1941, German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas.

  • Axis forces invade Russia

  • Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. declares war on Germany

  • U.S. declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania

  • Rommel captures Tobruk

  • First Battle of El Alamein

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos

  • Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France

  • Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships

  • Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus

  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

  • Soviet troops take Kursk

  • Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

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    British air raid on the Ruhr

  • Allies bomb Rome

  • Americans capture Palermo, Sicily

  • Soviet troops recapture Kharkov

  • Italian surrender to Allies is announced

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran

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    Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front

  • First computer for code-breaking

    Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer, which went into operation in 1944 at Britain's wartime code-breaking headquarters at Bletchley Park.

  • First attack toward Cassino, Italy

  • Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead

  • D-Day

  • Roosevelt died and Truman took over as President

  • Hiroshima atomic bombing

  • America drops its first atomic bomb

    On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

  • Nagasaki atomic bombing

  • Japanese surrender

    V-J Day stands for victory in Japan

  • V-E Day

    The end of World War 2 with Germany.
    V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe