Timeline World War II
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Updated: 30 Nov 2017
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Created bySacha Vogt
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Germany invades Poland (1 Sep 1939)Britain declares war on Germany (3 Sep 1939)Nazis invade Denmark and Norway (9 Apr 1940)Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands (10 May 1940)Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in USA and suspends relations with Japan (26 Jul 1941)Battle of Stalingrad begins (13 Sep 1942)USA Announces an oil embargo against aggressor states (1 Aug 1941)Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor (7 Dec 1941)USA and Britain declares war on Japan (8 Dec 1941)Germany declares war on the USA (11 Dec 1941)Operation Barbarossa begins (2 Jun 1941)Allies invade the Philippines (October 1943)US forces invade the island of Iwo Jima (19 Feb 1945)japan surrenders (14 Aug 1945)First atomic bomb dropped, Hiroshima, Japan (6 Aug 1945)Second atom bomb dropped, Nagasaki, Japan (9 Aug 1945)Soviets delcare war on Japan and invade Manchuria (8 Aug 1945)US forces caputre the Marshall Islands. British forces make advances in Burma (Jan/Feb 1944)Japanese begin last offensive in China (17 April 1944)US forces invade Saipan (15 Jun 1944)Japanese Navy suffers criical losses in the battle of Leyte Gulf (23-26 Oct 1944)German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa (13 May 1943)German surrender at Stalingrad (2 Feb 1943)Allied invasion of mainland Italy (3 Sep 1943)D-Day landings (6 Jun 1944)Liberation of Paris (25 Aug 1944)Battle of the Bulge (16-27 Dec 1944)Soviet troops capture Warsaw (17 Jan 1945)Battle of El Alamein (23 Oct 1943)Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (23 Jul 1940)Battle of Britain begins (10 Jul 1940)Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan (27 Sep 1940)Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins (26 May 1940)Italy declares war on Britain and France (10 Jun 1940)Blitz begins against Britain (7 Sep 1940)German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic (1 Jul 1940)Allied land in Sicily (9/10 Jul 1943)Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hambourg (27/28 Jul 1943)Periods
WWII in Europe (1 Aug 1939 - 7 May 1945)WWII in the Pacific (8 Dec 1941 / 14 Aug 1945)Barbarossa
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