1939 - 1945 The Second World War



1939 - 1945 The Second World War.

Bombing of British cities, compulsory military service and food rationing were brought in. | |

|1935 - 36 |

|[pic] Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia. |

|1937 |

|7 July -[pic] Japan invades [pic] China. |

|1938 |

|Germany marches into [pic] Austria and takes it over. |

|1939 |

|March -Germany takes over [pic] Czechoslovakia. |

|Sept. - Germany invades [pic] Poland |

|3 Sept - The Prime Minister of [pic] Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declares war on Germany. |

|[pic] France, [pic] Australia and [pic] New Zealand also declare war on [pic] Germany. |

|6 Sept. - South Africa declares war on Germany. |

|10 Sept. - [pic] Canada declares war on Germany. |

|17 Sept. - The Soviet Union invades [pic] Poland from the east. |

|30 Nov. The Soviet Union invades [pic] Finland. |

|1940 |

|9 Apr. - Germany invades [pic] Norway and [pic] Denmark. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. |

|10 May - [pic] Winston Churchill becomes the new British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain. |

|10 May - Germany attacks western Europe - [pic] Luxembourg, [pic] Holland and [pic] Belgium. |

|[pic] Luxemburg surrenders to the Germans |

|12 May - The German army enters [pic] France |

|14 May [pic] Holland surrenders to the Germans. |

|14 May - The Local Defence Volunteers (Dad's Army) is created in [pic] Britain. It was later called the Home Guard |

|27 May - The evacuation of 340,000 soldiers of the [pic] British and [pic] French armies from the beaches of Dunkirk. |

|28 May - [pic] Belgium surrenders to the Germans |

|4 June - The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk. |

|9 June - Norway surrenders to the Germans |

|10 June - [pic] Italy enters the war and declares war on [pic] Britain and [pic] France |

|14 June - The German army enters and took over Paris. |

|30 June 1940 (until the Liberation on 9 May 1945) German troops take over the Channel Islands, the only British soil occupied by Germany |

|21 June - [pic] Italy invades southern France. |

|22 June - German troops conquer most of [pic] France. [pic] France surrenders to the Germans |

|9 July - [pic] RAF Bomber Command start night raids on Germany |

|[pic]10th July - [pic] Battle of Britain begins |

|7 Sept - [pic] The London Blitz starts [pic] |

|13 Sept. - [pic] Italy invades British-controlled [pic] Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya. |

|20 Sept. - Germany, [pic] Italy, and [pic] Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. |

|Oct. - [pic] Italy invades [pic] Greece |

|Nov. - [pic] Slovakia (November 23), [pic] Hungary (November 20), and [pic] Romania (November 22) join the Axis. |

|1941 |

|March - [pic] Bulgaria joins the Axis. |

|6 Apr. - Germany invades [pic] Yugoslavia and [pic] Greece. |

|10 May - German air raid damages the [pic] House of Commons in London. |

|22 June - Germany invades Russia |

|7 Dec. - The [pic] Japanese attack the [pic] USA Naval Base at Pearl Harbour, [pic] Hawaii |

|8 Dec. - The [pic] United States declares war on [pic] Japan, entering World War II. |

|11 Dec. - Germany and [pic] Italy declare war on the [pic] United States. [pic] United States formally declares war on Germany and [pic] Italy. |

|25 Dec - [pic] Hong Kong surrenders to [pic] Japan. |

|1942 |

|2 Jan. - [pic] Japan captures Manila in the [pic] Philippines |

|15 Feb. - The [pic] Japan captures [pic] Singapore |

|5 May - The Battle of the Coral Sea between the [pic] US and [pic] Japanese navies |

|30 May - Anglo-Americans start bombing Germany |

|8 Nov - [pic] British and [pic] U.S. troops win back North Africa |

|11 - 13 Dec. - Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the [pic] United States. |

|1943 |

|19 April – May [pic] Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in occupied Poland. The largest single revolt by Jews against the Nazis during WW2. |

|16 May - The Dam Buster Raid |

|28 Sept. - [pic] Italy surrenders |

|10 Oct. - [pic] Italy swaps sides and declares war on Germany |

|1944 |

|4 June - [pic] Rome is freed by the Allies |

|6 June - [pic] British and [pic] U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of [pic]France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans. This day |

|is known as D-Day |

|12 June - The first of Germany's terror weapons, the V1 (doodlebug), falls in [pic] England at Swanscombe in Kent |

|15 Aug. - Allied forces land in [pic] southern France near Nice. |

|20 Aug. - Allied troops reach [pic] Paris. |

|Aug/Sept - Warsaw Uprising in occupied Poland, the largest ever civilian revolt in history, by the Polish population against the Nazis. |

|11 Sept. - U.S. troops enter Germany |

|20 Oct. - U.S. troops land in the [pic] Philippines. |

|16 Dec. - The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer [pic] Belgium and split the Allied |

|forces along the German border. |

|1945 |

|12 Jan. - The [pic] Soviets liberate Warsaw and Krakow in [pic] Poland. |

|13 Feb. - The [pic] Soviets capture Budapest, capital city of [pic] Hungary. |

|16 Apr. - The [pic] Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin. |

|30 Apr. - Hitler commits suicide |

|7 May Germany surrenders to the western Allies. |

|8 May [pic] Winston Churchill announces VE Day - Victory in Europe. British people wave flags, sing and dance in the streets. WW2 ends in Europe |

|9 May - Germany surrenders to the [pic] Soviets. |

|Creation of the Welfare State introduced social security payments for the unemployed. |

|6 Aug. - The first atomic bomb is dropped by [pic] The United States on [pic] Hiroshima killing 78,000 citizens |

|8 Aug. - The [pic] Soviet Union declares war on [pic] Japan and invades Manchuria. |

|9 Aug. - [pic] The United States drops an atomic bomb on [pic] Nagasaki. |

|14 Aug. - [pic] Japan surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. V-J Day (Victory in Japan) |

|2 Sept. - Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II. |

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