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First countries to participate
The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China). -
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Beginning of the war
Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. -
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Countries that joined the allies after the german invasion of Poland
Poland: September 1, 1939
United Kingdom: September 3, 1939
France: September 3, 1939
Australia: September 3, 1939
New Zealand: September 3, 1939
Nepal: September 4, 1939
Newfoundland: September 4, 1939
Tonga: September 4, 1939
South Africa: September 6, 1939
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ountries that joined the allies after Phony war
Denmark: April 9, 1940
Norway: April 9, 1940
Belgium: May 10, 1940
Luxembourg: May 10, 1940
Netherlands: May 10, 1940
Malta: June 10, 1940
Free France: June 18, 1940
Greece: October 28, 1940
Kingdom of Yugoslavia: April 6, 1941
Soviet Union: June 22, 1941
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France was occupied by Germany.
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Battle of Britain
Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The name is derived from a famous speech delivered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill " The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin."
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Romania in ww2
Having requested and received a German military mission in October 1940, Romania joined the Axis on November 23, 1940. The Romanians hoped that loyal support for a German invasion of the Soviet Union and faithful oil deliveries would: 1) destroy the Soviet threat; 2) return to Romania provinces annexed by the Soviet Union in June 1940; and 3) win German support for the return of Northern Transylvania. -
Slovakia
Slovakia was both politically and economically dependent on Germany for its existence as a sovereign state. Thus, Slovakia followed suit and joined the Axis alliance on November 24, 1940. -
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Countries that joined the allies after the attack on pearl harbor
Czechoslovakia (government in exile): December 16, 1941
Mexico: May 22, 1942
Brazil: August 22, 1942
Ethiopia: December 14, 1942
Iraq: January 17, 1943
Bolivia: April 7, 1943
Iran: September 9, 1943
Italy: October 13, 1943 (formerly a member of the Axis)
Colombia: November 26, 1943
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Operation Barbarossa
In June 1941, Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. Many Russian cities fell to Germany but Hitler had not expected the conquest of Russia to last into winter. The German soldiers did not have winter clothing and many froze to death. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. -
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Countries that joined the allies after the attack on pearl harbor
Panama: December 7, 1941
Philippines: December 7, 1941
Costa Rica: December 8, 1941
Dominican Republic: December 8, 1941
El Salvador: December 8, 1941
Haiti: December 8, 1941
Honduras: December 8, 1941
Nicaragua: December 8, 1941
United States: December 8, 1941
Republic of China: December 9, 1941
Guatemala: December 9, 1941
Cuba: December 9, 1941
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Japan took Singapore from the British.
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Mexico joins war
That May, German U-boats sank two Mexican oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. Germany refused to apologize or compensate Mexico, and on June 1, 1942, President Manuel Ávila Camacho issued a formal declaration of war against the Axis Powers. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 - 2 February 1943) is one of the turning points of World War 2 in which German troops of the 6th Army and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
El alamein
During the early part of the war the WW2 Axis powers had a number of victories in British controlled North Africa. The Axis powers wanted to capture the important Suez canal which would give them access to the Middle Eastern oil fields. Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armoured attack. He then proceeded to chase the routed enemy some 1500 miles across the desert. -
Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk or Operation Citadel was a large and decisive tank battle on the Eastern Front in World War II. It marked the end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and cleared the way for the great Soviet offensives of 1944–45. This battle also saw the day with the greatest losses in the history of the air war. The battle took place in July and August 1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near the city of Kursk in Russia. -
D-Day
The invasion was codenamed Operation OVERLORD and took place on Tuesday 6 June, having been delayed by 24 hours because of poor weather. American, British and Canadian troops were to be landed on five different beaches across the Normandy coastline. Allied airborne troops would be dropped by parachute or glider and secure the flanks – the Americans in the west and the British and Canadians in the east. -
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Countries that joined the allies after D-Day
Romania: August 25, 1944
Bulgaria: September 8, 1944
San Marino: September 21, 1944
Albania: October 26, 1944
Hungary: January 20, 1945,(formerly a member of the Axis)
Bahawalpur: February 2, 1945
Ecuador: February 2, 1945
Paraguay: February 7, 1945
Peru: February 12, 1945
Uruguay: February 15, 1945
Venezuela: February 15, 1945
Turkey: February 23, 1945
Lebanon: February 27, 1945
Saudi Arabia: March 1945
Argentina: March 27,1945
Chile: April 11,1945
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Operation Market Garden
By September 1944, Allied forces had successfully broken out of their Normandy beachhead and pursued shattered German forces across Northern France and Belgium. Initially proposed as a British and Polish operation codenamed Operation Comet, the plan was soon expanded to involve most of the First Allied Airborne Army and a set piece ground advance into the Netherlands, codenamed Market Garden. -
Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the main Japanese islands.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February- 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of texel
It was a large-scale mutiny at the end of World War II of Georgian troops that were part of the German Wehrmacht. The uprising on the island was directed against the losing Germans. It started on the night of 5 to 6 April 1945 and ended on 20 May 1945 when the Canadian army arrived on Texel. At least 1000 people were killed in total among the Georgian insurgents, the German military and the Texel civilian population. -
Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was the fierce battle for the German capital at the end of the Second World War from the end of April to the beginning of May 1945. The total number of casualties (military and civilian) is difficult to determine precisely, but is probably well above 200.000 . Several Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler himself, committed suicide. -
The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany signs an unconditional surrender at the headquarters of US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander of Allied forces in northwest Europe, at Reims on May 7.
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Germany signs a second, very similar, document of surrender in Berlin
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II
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Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway.