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1939 15 March

22 May

23 August

1 September

3 September

17 September

Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.

Germany and Italy agree Pact of Steel alliance.

USSR-German non-aggression pact.

Germany invades western Poland.

Britain and France declare war on Germany.

Soviet troops invade eastern Poland.



1940 9 April

10 May


12 May

29 May

10 June

14 June

July

27 September

Germany attacks Norway and Denmark.

Germany begins invasion of Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg. Winston Churchill becomes British PM.

Germany begins invasion of France.

Evacuation of troops from Dunkirk begins.

Italy declares war on Britain and France.

Germany captures Paris.

Battle of Britain begins.

Germany, Italy and Japan sign Tripartite Pact.



1941 17 April

22 June

25 June

8 September

7 December


8 December

11 December

Germany begins invasion of Balkans and Greece.

Germany invades USSR without warning.

USSR attacks Finland, starting the Continuation War.

Siege of Leningrad begins.

Japan bombs US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Rumania.

USA and Britain declare war on Japan.

Germany and Italy declare war on USA.



1942 15 February

26 May


September

8 November

Singapore falls to Japanese troops.

Anglo-Soviet treaty signed agreeing full cooperation during and after World War Two.

Battle of Stalingrad begins.

Allied troops land in North Africa.



1943 2 February

12 May

10 July

3 September

8 September

February German army surrenders at Stalingrad.

Allies victorious in North Africa.

Allied forces land in Sicily.

Allied forces land in Italy.

Italy surrenders.



1944 27 January

6 June

August

5 September

November

Leningrad relieved.

D-day – Allied liberation of France begins.

Start of Warsaw uprising (ends October).

End of USSR-Finland Continuation War.

Soviet advances in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.



1945 February

22 April

1 May

7 May

6 August

8 August

14 August

Yalta conference (Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill).

Soviet forces enter Berlin.

Hitler’s suicide announced.

Germany signs unconditional surrender.

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Japan agrees to unconditional surrender.

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