World War IIChronology

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World War II Chronology

• 1938
• Britain and France agree in Munich to let Germany
  have part of Czechoslovakia. Hitler said it
  would be his last territorial demand and then in
  March of 1939 he broke the pact by taking Prague.
  Policy of Appeasement ended
• 1939
• Germany and Italy sign a pact pledging support
  for each other in a war
• Germany and Russia sign a 10 year nonaggression
  pact in Aug. (when Hitler later violates this
  agreement it brings the USSR into the War)
• Sept Germany invades Poland (Using Blitzkrieg)
  and Russia invades for the east. Germany and
  Russia sign a treaty dividing Poland between them

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ITS ON!!!
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World War II Chronology

• 1939
• Phony War on the Western Front
• Maginot Line would hold
• Confident British Navy could blockade Germany
• German launches counter blockade with submarines,
  mines and depth bombs, sinking many allied
  merchant and passenger ships
• Russian-Finish War. Russia invades Finland in
  November. Finland gives Soviet union important
  ports and industry

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World War II Chronology

• 1940
• Germany invades Denmark and Norway in April.
  Denmark signs protection treaty, falls in five
  hours and Norway is reinforced by British forces
  and fights until June.
• In May Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands
  (falls in four days) and Luxembourg. Churchill
  becomes British Prime Minister and reinforces
  Belgium and the Netherlands. Both finally fall
• May 29th to June 4th Dunkirk approximately
  360,000 withdrawn by sea. The common citizens of
  England are largely responsible for this
  evacuation
• June 5th the battle for France. Germany
  invades over a 100 mile front and head to Paris.
  Italy declares war on Britain and France
• Germans occupy Paris on June 14 and armistice
  signed on June 22. Franco-Italian armistice
  signed on 24 June

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World War II Chronology

• 1940
• France Marshal Petain and the Vichy government
  in the unoccupied France
• Aug - Battle of Britain (The plan is an Air
  Campaign to be followed by an invasion of
  Britain). Germany urged for peace with Britain
  but Churchill refused. Britain and the RAF
  defeated the Germans and ended Hitlers hopes of
  invading England.
• Japan gains air bases in French Indo China to
  support its war against China
• Sept 27 Japan signs pact with Germany and Italy
• Germany and Italy control Europe and Japan
  controls Greater East Asia

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World War II Chronology

• 1940
• U.S. places sanctions on Japan in Sept
• U.S. trades destroyers for leases on British
  Naval and Air bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean
• U.S. begins to builds ships, planes and other war
  material ?
• 1941
• Gibraltar and Suez Canal
• Italy attacks North Africa while Germany drives
  through SE Europe
• Italy failed, Germany succeeded in over running
  Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece. Aids
  Italy and drives the British out of Libya and now
  drives for oil in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

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World War II Chronology

• 1941
• Lend/Lease between U.S. and Allies
• June Germany invades Russia
• Italy, Hungary, Finland and Romania declare war
  on Russia
• Great Britain and U.S. promise support to Russia
• 2000 mile front (White Sea to Black Sea)
• German attack
• From East Prussia, through Baltic states to
  Leningrad
• Northern part of German Poland through White
  Russia to Moscow
• Southern part of German Poland toward Kiev

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World War II Chronology

• 1941
• Russian Guerrilla warfare slowed the German
  advance
• Scorched earth policy
• Winter
• Soviet counter offensive drove Germans back from
  the outskirts of Moscow and Leningrad
• British attack Germans in Libya.

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World War II Chronology

• 1941
• In Conjunction with the German invasion of
  Russia, Japan moved against Thailand
• U.S. and Great Britain protested
• Tojo comes to U.S. to trick government
• Dec 7th, Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
• Japan attacks Midway Island, the Philippines,
  Hong Kong, Guam and Wake island and other
  targets.
• U.S. declares war on Japan
• Dec 9th China declares war on Japan, Germany
  and Italy.
• Germany and Italy declares war on U.S. on Dec
  11th and the USA declares war on them in return

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World War II Chronology

• 1941
• Dec Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El
  Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua
  and Panama declare war on Axis Powers
• Bolivia declares war on Japan
• Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania declare war on U.S.
• Japan and Russia avoid war with each other
• 26 nations against the Axis Powers in Jan 1942

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• 1942
• Wake, Guam and Hong Kong (Christmas of 1941)
  fall to the Japanese
• Singapore, the Netherlands Indies, and Burma
  fall to Japan.
• Darwin (Australia) is heavily bombed

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World War II Chronology

• 1942
• Jan Rommel drives to Suez Canal
• Rommel takes Tobruk
• June Battle of Midway U.S. victory that ended
  Japanese expansion
• July Rommel takes El Alamein
• July - Sevastopol falls to Germany in Russia
• Aug Germans attack Stalingrad and the Russian
  stop the attack

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World War II Chronology

• 1942
• Aug Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal) invaded by
  U.S.
• Sept U.S. and Australia invade New Guinea
• Oct Montgomery route Rommel at El Alamein and
  by November the Germans are forced out of Egypt
• Nov Russians counterattack
• Nov 8 Allies invade North Africa

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World War II Chronology

• 1943
• Russian Counterattack at Stalingrad, Kharkov and
  Smolensk
• Feb Guadalcanal falls to U.S
• May Germans out of North Africa
• July Allies invade Sicily
• Badoglio succeeds Mussolini
• Sept Italy invaded by Allies
• Italy out of the war on Sept 8th

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World War II Chronology

• 1943
• Convoy Operations in Atlantic rid the Allies of
  the German U-Boat threat
• Allied Strategic Bombing continues on German
  industrial areas
• Allied Transport airplanes having an effect
  everywhere
• Japanese outer rings falls and Australia is no
  longer threatened

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World War II Chronology

• 1944
• Feb Marshall Islands taken (Eniwetok/Kwajalein)
• June 6 - Normandy
• Aug Marianas taken (Saipan, Timian and Guam)
  (Superfortress B-29s bombing Japan)
• Aug Paris falls to Allies
• Russia drives Germany back to its own borders and
  has Romania, Bulgaria declare war on Germany
• Allies drive through Italy and invade France
• German V bombs
• Dec German counterattack (Bastone)Battle of the
  Bulge

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Russia in World War 2
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World War II Chronology

• 1945
• Feb - Marshall Islands (Iwo Jima)
• Feb Budapest falls
• Apr Mussolini killed
• Apr Vienna falls
• Apr Berlin falls
• May German Surrender

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World War II Chronology

• 1945
• MacArthur lands in Philippines
• April Fools Day Okinawa ?
• Aug Russia attacks Manchuria
• Aug 6th Hiroshima
• Aug 9th Nagasaki
• Aug 15th - Surrender