WWII

By eroark17

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia.

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic

  • German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.

  • Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain).

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.

  • United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.

  • Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.

  • Nazis take Kiev.

  • Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.

  • Hitler takes complete control of the German Army.

  • Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.

  • Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.

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

  • Allies bomb Rome

  • Germans rescue Mussolini

  • Soviet troops advance into Poland.

  • Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland

  • Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.

  • Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

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

  • German troops in Italy surrender

  • Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan

  • United Nations is born

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.