WWII

By millybock

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia.

  • Spanish Civil war ends.

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.

  • British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.

  • Nazis invade Poland.

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

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.

  • 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.

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.

  • Soviets attack Finland.

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.

  • Rationing begins in Britain

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.

  • Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

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

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Germans bomb Paris

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

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.

  • Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.

  • US declares war on Japan