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European Theatre WW2
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Tom
⟶ Updated 19 Dec 2017 ⟶
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Events
Germany invades Poland (1 Sep.)
Britain and France declare war on Germany (3 Sep.)
Soviets invade Poland (17 Sep.)
Poland falls to Germany and USSR (27 Sep.)
Soviets attack Finland (30 Nov.)
Nazis invade Denmark and Norway (9 Apr.)
Germany invades France, Belgium and The Netherlands (10 May)
Winston Churchill becomes British PM (10 May)
Dunkirk evacuation begins (26 May)
Italy declares war on Britain and France (10 Jun.)
Germans enter Paris (14 Jun.)
France signs armistice with Germany (22 Jun.)
U-boat campaign commences (1 Jul.)
Battle for Britain begins (10 Jul.)
Soviets take Baltic states (23 Jul.)
Operation Sealion commences, German blitz of Britain (7 Sep.)
Tripartite (Axis) pact signed (27 Sep.)
Germans postpone Operation Sealion (12 Oct.)
Germans conquer Yugoslavia and Greece (Apr.)
British Navy sinks Bismarck (27 May)
Operation Barbarossa commences (22 Jun.)
Americans capture Palermo, Sicily (22 Jul.)
Italian Fascist government falls, Mussolini arrested (25 Jul.)
Germans evacuate Sicily (17 Aug.)
Italian surrender to Allies is announced (8 Se.)
Germans occupy Rome and rescue Mussolini (11 Se.)
Mussolini re-establishes a fascist government (23 Se.)
Allies enter Naples (1 Oct.)
Kiev taken back by Soviets (6 Nov.)
Soviet troops advance into Poland (6 Jan.)
Leningrad relieved of 900 day siege (27 Jan.)
First Allied attack on Monte Cassino fails (17 Jan.)
Second Allied attack on Monte Cassino (15 Mar.)
Germans surrender in Crimea (12 May)
Allies enter Rome (5 Jun.)
D-Day landings in Normandy, France (6 Jun.)
Soviet summer offensive commences (22 Jun.)
Soviets take Minsk (3 Jul.)
British troops capture Caen, France (9 Jul.)
Soviets take Brest-Litovsk (28 Jul.)
Soviet offensive on the Balkans (19 Aug.)
Allies liberate Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Antewerp and Brussels (4 Se.)
Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany (21 Oct.)
French take Strasbourg
Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, begins (17 Dec.)
Germans withdraw from the Ardennes (17 Jan.)
Soviets take Warsaw (17 Jan.)
Soviets liberate Auschwitz (26 Jan.)
Allies meet at Yalta (4 Feb.)
Allies take Cologne (7 Mar.)
Soviets take Danzig (30 Mar.)
Allies enter Northern Italy (1 Apr.)
Roosevelt dies. Truman becomes the US president (12 Apr.)
Soviets begin attack on Berlin (16 Apr.)
Mussolini captured and hanged (28 Apr.)
Adolf Hitler commits suicide (30 Apr.)
Unconditional surrender of all German forces (7 May)
'Victory in Europe' Day (8 May)
Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets (12 Jul)
Nazi siege of Leningrad begins (20 Aug.)
Nazis take Kiev (19 Se.)
Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow)(2 Oct.)
German attack on Moscow abandoned (5 Dec.)
Soviets launch major counter-offensive at Moscow (6 Dec.)
Hitler declares war on the USA (11 Dec.)
First American forces in Britain (26 Jan.)
Soviet resistance in Crimea ends (5 Jul.)
Massive German air raid on Stalingrad (23 Aug.)
Battle for Stalingrad begins (13 Se.)
Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins (19 Nov.)
Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships (31 Dec.)
Soviet begin offensive at Stalingrad (10 Jan.)
Germans surrender at Stalingrad (2 Feb.)
Soviets Take Kursk (8 Feb.)
Allies land in Sicily (9 Jul.)
