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Conference between Germany, France, England and Italy.
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Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
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The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France.
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Italy declares war on France and Great Britain.
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France Surrenders to Germany.
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The United States begins its first peacetime draft.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill.
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The British ship (Hood) is sunk by Germany's (Bismarck)
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The Bismarck is sunk by the British.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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The Atlantic Conference Begins, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; equal access to raw materials; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social
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Nazi Germany encircled Leningrad (USSR) and began a 900 day Siege, September 8 1941 until January 27 1944.
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The Japanese launch an aerial sneak attack on Peal Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; the United States declares war on Germany and Italy.
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A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee.
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18 April 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
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Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll.
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Was the invasion and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II, the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place.
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Siege of Leningrad ends after 900 days.
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On 20 October, United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies.
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Stalin, FDR and Churchill
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Bloody battle in the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
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Operation Iceberg; longest amphibious assault in the Pacific.
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Faught in Germany, Russia beat us there. This is where Hitler and Germany would start to panic.
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Mussolini was shot by Italians and hung up in the city to be beaten and humiliated.
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was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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Truman, Stalin and Churchill; postwar plans.
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By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
