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WWII timeline
Created by
Eliza Farquharson
⟶ Updated 9 Oct 2017 ⟶
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Events
(1 Sep) Hitler invades Poland
(3 Sep) Britain and France declare war on Germany
(10 May) Churchill elected Prime Minister
(10 May) Hitler launches Operation Yellow (invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg)
(20 May) First Auschwitz prisoners
(14 June) Germans enter Paris
(22 June) The Fall of France (surrender to Germans)
(1 July) Battle of Britian
(10 July) Italy joins WWII (Germany's side)
(22 Sep) German, Japan and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact as part of the Axis Alliance)
(27 April) German occupation of Athens
(22 June) Operation Barbarossa (Germany crosses Russian border)
(17 Sep) Russia invades Poland
(6 Oct) Poland partitioned
(5 Dec) Hitler abandons plan to take Russia
(7 Dec) Japanese attack Pearl Harbour (naval base), causing the US to enter WWII
(15 Feb) Japanese victory at Battle of Singapore, they begin to occupy it
(29 May) Operation Anthropoid- Assassination of SS Lieutenant Reinhard Heydrich (head of Reich Main Security Office)
(8 Nov) Operation Torch (British-US invasion of French North Africa)
(31 Jan) von Paulus, German leader, surrenders to the Russians
(13 May) Hundreds of thousands Axis Forces surrender at Tunis to the Allies
(25 July) Mussolini dismissed by King Victor Emmanuel III and arrested
(1 Oct) Allies capture Naples (Italy under the Allies control)
4 (Feb) Japanese invade India
(6 June) D-Day (the Allied invasion of Normandy)
(13 June) First V-1 Flying Bomb was launched (at London)
(25 Aug) Paris was liberated by the Allies
(27 Jan) Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops
(19 March) Allies cross Rhine River, leading to the Allies' invasion of Germany
(2 May) Fall of Berlin is complete
(28 April) Mussolini shot and hanged (with his mistress)
(30 April) Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
(7 May) Germany surrenders
(8 May) VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)
(6 Aug) First atomic bomb ever was dropped (on Hiroshima) by the US
(15 Aug) Japan surrenders
(9 Aug) Atomic bomb (on Nagasaki by the US)
Periods
Dunkirk rescue mission (24 May- 4 June)
The Blitz (against Britain) (7 Sep- 10 May)
Battle of Stalingrad (23 Aug- 2 Feb)