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WW2 Timeline by: Alyson Pilcher
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WWII Timeline by: Alyson Pilcher
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March 31, 1939
France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state -
April 9, 1940 - June 9, 1940
Germany invades Denmark and Norway -
June 10, 1940
Italy enters the war -
June 28, 1940
The Soviet Union forces Romainia to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine -
September 13, 1940
The Italians invade British controlled Egypt from Italian controlled Libya -
October 1940
Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28 -
February 1941
The Germans send Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforcethe faltering italians -
March 1, 1941
Bulgaria joins the Axis -
April 10, 1941
Leaders of the terroist Ustasa movement proclaim the Independent state Croatia -
June 22, 1941
Nazi germany and Axis partners invade the Soviet Union -
june 1942
British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at midpoint -
June 28, 1942
Germany and axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union -
August 1942
US troops halt the Japanese island hopping advance towards Australlia -
October 23, 1942
British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt -
November 8, 1942
Us troops and British troops land on the beahes of Algeria and Morcoco in french North Africa -
May 13, 1943
Axis forces in Tunisa surrender to the Allies -
july 10, 1943
Us and British troops land on Sicily, -
September 8, 1943
Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally tot he Allies -
January 22, 1944
Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome -
June 6, 1944
British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, which opened a second front -
August 15, 1944
Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards Rhine River -
April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide -
May 9, 1945
Germany surrenders to the soviets -
August 9, 1945
The US drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki -
September 2, 1945
Japan fromally surrenders, ending World War 2