WW2 Part 3 1940

By prydejo

  • Rationing begins in Britain

  • Nazis Choose the Town of Auschwitz as the site of the new concentration camp

  • Deportation of German Jews, Or moved into Ghettos

  • Soviet Union signs a treaty with Finland, after the Soviet Union takes Finland over

  • Nazis take over Norway and Denmark

    Denmark had 8,000 Jews
    Norway had 2,000 Jews

  • The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 locked inside

  • Rudolf Hosts is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz

  • The Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxenburg, and Netherlands

    France had 350,000 Jews
    Luxenburg had 3,500 Jews
    Belgium had 65,000 Jews
    Holland had 140,000 Jews

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis

  • The last minute evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk to avoid the oncoming Nazi forces

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

  • Nazis start bombing Paris

  • Norway surrenders to Nazis

    Italy declares war on France and Great Britain

  • Germans enter Paris

  • France signs and armistice with Germany

  • General Charles de Gaulle become leader of the Free French

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    The Madagascar plan is proposed

  • Battle of Britain Begins

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

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    Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa

  • Germany bombs southern England

  • Hitler declares a Blockade of the British Isles

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    Britain begins bombing Berlin

  • Operation Sea Lion

  • Blitzkrieg begins

    Germans bomb Great Britain 57 nights staight

  • Italians invade Egypt

  • The United States Military Conscription bill is passed

  • Tripartite Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan

  • Vichy France passes its own version of the Nuremburg Laws

  • German troops enter Romania

  • Germans postpone Operation Sea Lion till spring of 1941

  • Italy invades Greece

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    Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia all align with the Nazis

  • The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off containing 400,000 Jews

  • Greeks defeat Italian 9th army

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    British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians

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    The Krackow Ghetto is sealed of containing 70,000 Jews

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. President