WW2+Chronology

**September 27, 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazis ; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). ****September 29, 1939 -** Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. **August 1, 1941 -** United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states. **December 7, 1941** - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor ; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree **December 8, 1941 - United States **and Britain declare war on Japan. **In April** - Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers. June 4-5, 1942 - Turning point in the war occurs with a decisive victory for the U.S. against Japan in the Battle of Midway **June 25, 1942 -** General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in London. October 26, 1942 - Battle of Santa Cruz off Guadalcanal loss of the Carrier HORNET. **November 1, 1942 - Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein) **[|.] November 14/15 - off Guadalcanal resulting in the sinking of the U.S. Cruiser JUNEAU and the deaths of the five Sullivan brothers. February 9, 1943 - Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends. **February 14-25 -** Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa. April 9, 1942 - U.S. forces on Bataan surrender unconditionally to the Japanese.**April 19, 1943** **- Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ** May 6, 1942 - Japanese take Corregidor as Gen. Wainwright unconditionally surrenders all U.S. And Filipino forces in the Philippines.May 7-8, 1942 - Japan suffers its first defeat of the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea off New Guinea **May 7, 1943 -** Allies take Tunisia. **July 27/28 -** Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg. August 1/2 - PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, is rammed and sunk by the Japanese Cruiser AMAGI **August 17, 1943 -** American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany; Allies reach Messina, Sicily. **September 9, 1943** **-** Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto. November 1, 1943 - U.S. Marines invade Bougainville November 20, 1943 - U.S. Troops invade Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. February 1-7, 1944 - U.S. Troops capture Kwajalein and Majura Atolls in the Marshall Islands **February 16, 1944** **- Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead. ** **July 18, 1944** - U.S. troops reach St. Lô, France. **September 13, 1944** **-** U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line in western Germany. **September 17, 1944** **- Operation Market Garden begins ** (Allied airborne assault on Holland ). **December 26, 1944** **-** Patton relieves Bastogne. **February 4-11** - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta. **February 13/14 -** Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids. **March 7, 1945** - Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen. **April 29, 1945** - U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau **July 16, 1945** **-** First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins. **August 6, 1945** **-** First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan. **August 9, 1945** - Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan **September 2, 1945** **- Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day ** Wikihome [|BacktoMoodle]
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 * September 1, 1939 -** Nazis invade Poland.
 * September 17, 1939 -** Soviets invade Poland.
 * October 9, 1940** - Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
 * May 10, 1940 -** Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
 * May 26, 1940 -** Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.
 * June 3, 1940** - Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends.
 * June 14, 1940 -** Germans enter Paris. **June 22, 1940 -** France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.
 * June 23, 1940** - Hitler tours Paris.
 * July 1, 1940 -** German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
 * July 10, 1940 -** Battle of Britain begins.
 * July 23, 1940 -** Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
 * August 17, 1940 -** Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.
 * August 23/24 -** First German air raids on Central London.
 * August 25/26** - First British air raid on Berlin.
 * September 7, 1940 - German Blitz against Britain begins **
 * September 15, 1940 - Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester **
 * September 16, 1940 -** United States military conscription bill passed.
 * September 27, 1940 -** Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
 * October 28, 1940 -** Italy invades Greece.
 * November 5, 1940 -** Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
 * November 14/15 -** Germans bomb Coventry, England.
 * December 9/10 -** British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians.
 * December 29/30 - Massive German air raid on London **
 * 1941**
 * February 12, 1941 -** German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
 * February 14, 1941 -** First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
 * March 11, 1941 -** President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
 * May 10/11 -** Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
 * May 24, 1941 -** Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck.
 * May 27, 1941 -** Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy. USPBY
 * June 14, 1941 -** United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
 * June 22, 1941** - Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins
 * In June** - Nazi SS-Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder
 * July 26, 1941 -** Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
 * July 31, 1941** - Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution
 * August 14, 1941 - Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter **
 * September 1, 1941 - Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars. **
 * October 2, 1941 -** Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow).
 * November 13, 1941 -** British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
 * December 6, 1941 -** Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.
 * December 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United States **
 * 1942**
 * January 1, 1942 -** Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
 * January 13, 1942 -** Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
 * January 20, 1942 - SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." ****January 26, 1942 -** First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
 * May 27, 1942 -** SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.
 * May 30, 1942 -** First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
 * In June -** Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
 * July 1-30 -** First Battle of El Alamein.
 * July 9, 1942 -** Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.
 * July 22, 1942 -** First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.
 * August 7, 1942 -** 1st Marine Division invades Tulagi and Guadalcanal British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
 * August 12, 1942** - Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.
 * August 17, 1942 -** First all-American air attack in Europe
 * September 2, 1942 -** Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.
 * September 13, 1942 -** Battle of Stalingrad begins.
 * October 5, 1942** - A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder
 * November 8, 1942 -** Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).
 * December 2, 1942 -** Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
 * December 17, 1942 -** British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
 * December 31, 1942 -** Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.
 * 1943**
 * January 14-24** - Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt aannounce "unconditional German surrender."
 * January 27, 1943 -** First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
 * February 2, 1943 -** Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
 * March 16-20 -** Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
 * May 13, 1943** **-** German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
 * May 16, 1943** **-** Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends.
 * May 22, 1943** **-** Dönitz suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic.
 * July 5, 1943** **-** Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
 * July 9/10 - Allies land in Sicily. **
 * July 25/26** **-** Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.
 * September 11, 1943** **-** Germans occupy Rome.
 * September 12, 1943** **-** Germans rescue Mussolini.
 * September 23, 1943** **-** Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.
 * October 1, 1943** **-** Allies enter Naples, Italy.
 * November 28, 1943 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran **
 * December 24-26** **-** Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front.
 * 1944**
 * January 22, 1944 -** Allies land at Anzio in Italy.
 * February 15-18 -** Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.
 * March 15, 1944** - Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.
 * May 25, 1944** **-** Germans retreat from Anzio.
 * June 5, 1944 -** Allies enter Rome.
 * June 6, 1944** - D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
 * June 13, 1944** **- First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain. **
 * June 27, 1944 - U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France. **
 * July 3, 1944 -** 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
 * July 9, 1944** **-** British and Canadian troops capture Caen, France.
 * July 20, 1944** **-** Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
 * August 1, 1944** **-** Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.
 * August 4, 1944** **-** Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
 * August 19, 1944** - Resistance uprising in Paris.
 * August 25, 1944** - Liberation of Paris.
 * September 1-4** **- Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies. **
 * September 4, 1944** **-** Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.
 * October 2, 1944** **-** Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
 * October 21, 1944** **- Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany. **
 * October 30, 1944** **-** Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
 * December 16-27** - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
 * December 17, 1944 **** - Waffen-SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy. **
 * 1945**
 * January 17, 1945** **-** Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.
 * January 26, 1945** **-** Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
 * March 6, 1945** **-** Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
 * In April** **- Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in German salt mines **
 * April 1, 1945 -** U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in northern Italy
 * April 12, 1945** - Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman becomes President.
 * April 16, 1945** **-** Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
 * April 21, 1945** **-** Soviets reach Berlin.
 * April 28, 1945** **-** Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.
 * April 30, 1945** **- Adolf Hitler commits suicide **
 * May 2, 1945** **-** German troops in Italy surrender.
 * May 7, 1945** - Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies
 * May 8, 1945** **- V-E (Victory in Europe) Day **
 * May 9, 1945** **-** Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army.
 * May 23, 1945** **-** SS-Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide; German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned.
 * June 26, 1945** **- United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco **
 * July 26, 1945** **-** Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
 * August 8, 1945** **-** Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria.
 * August 14, 1945** **- Japanese agree to unconditional surrender **
 * October 24, 1945** **-** United Nations is born.

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