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Soviet Union invades Poland
Battleship Graf Spee Destroyed
Sitzkieg or "sitting war" begins
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2. April: Germany Invades Denmark & Norway
3. Germany invades Holland & Belgium
4. Evacuation from Dunkirk Begins
June: Italy declares war on Britain and France
U.S.S.R invades Baltic States
5. Paris falls. France surrenders.
6. July: Battle of Britain begins
Sept: London blitzed heavily
Japan formally joins Axis.
Nov: Hungary joins Axis
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March: Lend-Lease Act Passed
7. April: Yugoslavia & Greece occupied by Germany.
May: Bismark sunk.
Crete Fails to Germany
9. June: Germany attacks U.S.S.R.
July: Great Britain and U.S.S.R. form alliance.
10. Japan invades French Indochina
11. May-Dec: Germans stopped outside Moscow
12. Japan
attacks Pearl Harbor.
Japan declares War on U.S. & Britain.
13. Japan invades Thailand, Malaya, and Hong Kong
Germany & Italy declare war on U.S.
14. Japan invades Burma, Borneo, Wake Island.
15. Philippines
fall to Japan.
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16. Jan & Feb: Japan Invades Indonesia
18. Japan invades Solomon Islands.
March: Burma falls to Japan
Macarthur Escapes from Philippines
April: U.S. troops surrender on Bataan
May: U.S. forces on Corregidor
19. The Island of Corregidor falls to Japan. The Philippines are fully under Japanese control.
Allied Blitz of Cologne Begins
20. Battle of Midway
June: Tobruk Falls to Rommel
Kharkov falls to Germans
Aug: U.S. Marines land at Guadalcanal in Solomon Is.
Germans take Caucasus Mts.
21. Battle of Stalingrad begins
22. Oct: British attack El Alamein, Egypt
23. Nov:
Allies Invade Morocco & Algeria Axis occupied all of France
Aug: Churchill & FDR meet off Newfoundland and form Atlantic Charter
Sept: Germans surround Leningrad
Germans take Kiev
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Churchill & FDR meet at Casablanca
Germans surrender at Stalingrad
Feb: U.S. takes Guadalcanal
Soviets take Kharkov
Oct: Tojo becomes Japan's Prime Minister
June: Axis defeated in N. Africa
25. U-Boats withdraw from N. Atlantic ending Battle of the Atlantic
July: Largest Tank battle at Kursk in USSR
Saturation bombing of Germany begins
Mussolini deposed & arrested
Sept: Allies land in Italy
Germans occupy Rome
Mussolini escapes to Germany
October: Italy declares war on Germany
Nov: FDR, Churchill, & Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt
Dec: FDR, Churchill, Stalin meet In Tehran, Iran
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Jan: Eisenhower appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force
27. Allies land at Anzio, Italy
Germans defeated at Leningrad
U.S. lands at Marshall Is.
28. Feb: Allies stall at Cassino
May: U.S. breaks out at Anzio
June: Allies enter Rome
29. D-Day: Allies land in Normandy, France
U.S. bombs Tokyo
Battle of Philippine sea: U.S. wins.
July: Assassination of Hitler fails
U.S. invades Guam
Aug: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Allies land in S. France
Paris liberated by Allies
Sept: Brussels and Antwerp liberated
Operation Market-Garden fails at Arnhem.
April: Allies enter Germany
British liberate Greece
Rommel commits suicide
De Gaulle heads temporary French Govt.
Oct: U.S. inflicts heavy losses on Japan:
Nov: FDR wins 4th term
32. Dec: Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium
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Jan: Germans lose battle of the Bulge
Soviets enter Warsaw
Feb: US Troops enter Manila
Yalta Conference held in USSR
Allies cross the Rhine; enter Berlin, firebomb Dresden
34. April: Battle for Okinawa begins
Vienna falls to Soviets
FDR dies: Truman takes over
Mussolini killed
US. & Soviets meet at Elbe River
U.N. created in San Francisco
Germans in Italy give up
Dachau liberated.
Hitler commits suicide in Berlin bunker
May: Berlin surrenders to Soviets Allies occupy Munich
Germany surrenders (V-E Day)
June: Germany divided in 4 zones
Philippines fully liberated
July: First A-Bomb test
Aug: Potsdam meeting: Truman, Churchill, Stalin
Atlee replaces Churchill