WW2

By makenzienglish

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.

  • Nazis invade Poland.

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

  • United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.

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

  • Soviets invade Poland.

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.

  • Soviets attack Finland.

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations

  • Rationing begins in Britain.

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

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

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

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

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

  • 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.

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.

  • D-Day. Allies invade Normandy beaches

  • Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.

  • American, British, and French troops move into Berlin.

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.

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

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.