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Chronology of the Second World War
Chronology of the Second World War
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Date
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The
German Army
invades
Czechoslovakia
.
|
15th March, 1939
|
Edouard Daladier
announces that
France
intends to increase defence spending.
|
17th March, 1939
|
Adolf Hitler
demands the free city of Danzig in
Poland
.
|
21st March, 1939
|
Britain
and
France
pledge to support
Poland
.
|
29th March, 1939
|
Italy
invades and occupies
Albania
.
|
7th April, 1939
|
Britain
and
France
pledge to support
Romania
and
Greece
.
|
13th April, 1939
|
Soviet Union
proposes a triple alliance with
Britain
and
France
.
|
18th April, 1939
|
Sweden
,
Norway
and
Finland
reject Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.
|
17th May, 1939
|
Winston Churchill
urges the government to form a military alliance with the
Soviet Union
.
|
9th July, 1939
|
Joseph Stalin
and
Adolf Hitler
sign the
Nazi-Soviet Pact
.
|
23rd August, 1939.
|
Britain
and
Poland
sign a treaty of mutal assistance.
|
25th August, 1939.
|
The
German Army
invades
Poland
and annexes the free city of Danzig.
|
1st September, 1939
|
Britain
and
France
declare war on
Nazi Germany
.
|
3rd September, 1939
|
Parliament passes the
National Services (Armed Forces) Act
.
|
3rd September, 1939
|
Neville Chamberlain
appoints
Winston Churchill
as First Lord of the Admiralty.
|
3rd September, 1939
|
The
German Army
reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish border with the
Soviet Union
.
|
17th September, 1939
|
The
Red Army
invades
Poland
.
|
17th September, 1939
|
Reinhard Heydrich
announces that all
Jews
in
Poland
are to be imprisoned in
Ghettos
.
|
21st September, 1939
|
The Polish Army surrenders in
Warsaw
.
|
27th September, 1939
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
announces that the
USA
will remain neutral in the European war.
|
3rd October, 1939
|
The British battleship
Royal Oak
is sunk by U-boat captained by
Gunther Prien
.
|
14th October, 1939
|
The
Schutz Staffeinel (SS)
establish the first
Jewish Ghetto
in Piotrkow.
|
28th October, 1939
|
Germany
formally annexes western
Poland
into the German Reich.
|
1st November, 1939
|
Joseph Stalin
formally annexes eastern
Poland
into the
Soviet Union
.
|
2nd November, 1939
|
The
Red Army
invades
Finland
.
|
30th November, 1939
|
The
Soviet Union
is expelled from the
League of Nations
.
|
14th December, 1939
|
The
Red Army
attacks the Mannerheim Line in
Finland
.
|
11th February, 1940
|
Finland
signs a peace treaty with the
Soviet Union
.
|
12th March, 1940
|
Paul Reynaud
replaces
Edouard Daladier
as prime minister of
France
.
|
20th March, 1940
|
Britain
and
France
agree not to sign a separate peace with
Nazi Germany
.
|
28th March, 1940
|
Neville Chamberlain
appoints
Lord Beaverbrook
as minister of aircraft production.
|
3rd April, 1940
|
Soldiers in the
British Army
land at Namsos in
Norway
.
|
8th April, 1940
|
The
German Army
invades
Denmark
and
Norway
.
|
9th April, 1940
|
Adolf Hitler
launches his
Western Offensive
and invades
France
.
|
10th May, 1940
|
Neville Chamberlain
resigns as prime minister and is replaced by
Winston Churchill
.
|
10th May, 1940
|
Anthony Eden
announces the formation of the
Home Guard
.
|
14th May, 1940
|
Netherlands
surrenders and
Queen Wilhelmina
flees to England.
|
14th May, 1940
|
Parliament grants
Winston Churchill
and his government wide emergency powers.
|
22nd May, 1940
|
General
Gerd von Rundstedt
and the
German Army
pierce the French defences at Sedan.
|
23rd May, 1940
|
Adolf Hitler
orders the German forces in
France
and
Belgium
to halt their advance.
|
23rd May, 1940
|
Adolf Hitler
orders the German forces in resume their advance into
France
and
Belgium
.
|
25th May, 1940
|
Evacuation from
Dunkirk
begins.
|
27th May, 1940
|
Belgium
surrender to the
German Army
and
Leopold III
is arrested.
|
28th May, 1940
|
Winston Churchill
appoints
Stafford Cripps
as British ambassador to the
Soviet Union
.
|
30th May, 1940
|
The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from
Dunkirk
.
|
4th June, 1940
|
J. B. Priestley
gives first BBC radio broadcast.
|
5th June, 1940
|
Benito Mussolini
declares war on the Allies.
|
10th June, 1940
|
Gotthard Heinrici
and the 12th Corps break through the
Maginot Line
.
|
14th June, 1940
|
The
German Army
enters Paris.
|
14th June, 1940
|
The
USA
rejects France's renewed appeal for help against the
German Army
.
|
15th June, 1940
|
Henri-Philippe Petain
begins to negotiate an armistice with
Germany
.
|
17th June, 1940
|
France
signs armistice with
Nazi Germany
and is divided into two zones.
|
22nd June, 1940
|
Winston Churchill
recognizes
Charles De Gaulle
as leader of the
Free French
.
|
28th June, 1940
|
The
Royal Navy
destroys most of the
French Navy
at
Mers-el-Kébir
.
|
3rd July, 1940
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
bans the shipment of strategic materials to
Japan
.
|
5th July, 1940
|
Ark Royal
sinks
Dunkerqueat
at
Mers-el-Kébir
.
|
6th July, 1940
|
The
Luftwaffe
launch the start of the
Battle of Britain
.
|
10th July, 1940
|
Henri-Philippe Petain
becomes president of
Vichy France
.
|
11th July, 1940
|
Winston Churchill
invites
Hugh Dalton
to establish the
Special Operations Executive
.
|
16th July, 1940
|
The
Italian Army
advances into British Somaliland.
|
3rd August, 1940
|
The
Luftwaffe
began attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft, airfields and installations.
|
13th August, 1940
|
The
Luftwaffe
carry out a all-night bombing raid on
London
and begins the
Blitz
.
|
23rd August, 1940
|
The
Royal Air Force
bombs Berlin.
|
25th August, 1940
|
Rodolfo Graziani
and
Italian Army
make a rapid advance into
Egypt
.
|
13th September, 1940
|
City of Bernares
sunk by a German torpedo killing 73 children on the way to
Canada
.
|
17th September, 1940
|
Winston Churchill
decides to abandon the attempt to capture the port of
Dakar
.
|
25th September, 1940
|
Vidkun Quisling
installed by the Germans as prime minister of
Norway
.
|
25th September, 1940
|
Yosuke Matsuoka
of
Japan
signs the
Tripartite Pact
with
Nazi Germany
and
Italy
.
|
27th September, 1940
|
Winston Churchill
appoints
Kingsley Wood
as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
|
3rd October, 1940
|
Winston Churchill
appoints
Ernest Bevin
as Minister of Labour.
|
3rd October, 1940
|
Adolf Hitler
postpones
Operation Sealion
.
|
12th October, 1940
|
Adolf Hitler
meets
Francisco Franco
an attempt to persuade
Spain
to join the war.
|
23rd October, 1940
|
The
Mustang P-51B
makes its first flight.
|
26th October, 1940
|
The
Italian Army
invades
Greece
.
|
28th October, 1940
|
The
Royal Navy
attacks the
Italian Navy
at Taranto.
|
11th November, 1940
|
The
Luftwaffe
bomb
Coventry
killing 380 people and injuring 865.
|
14th November, 1940
|
The
Royal Air Force
bomb
Hamburg
in
Germany
.
|
16th November, 1940
|
Airbourbe
radar
successfully used by the
Royal Air Force
for the first time.
|
18th November, 1940
|
British Army
captures
Tobruk
.
|
22nd January, 1941
|
Bulgaria
signs the Tripartite Pact and joins forces with
Germany
,
Italy
and
Japan
.
|
1st March, 1941
|
The
British Army
invades Italian-controlled
Ethiopia
.
|
7th March, 1941
|
US Congress passes the
Lend-Lease Act
.
|
11th March, 1941
|
General
Erwin Rommel
mounts his first attack in the
Desert War
.
|
24th March, 1941
|
General
Andrew Cunningham
, commander of allied forces in East Africa, enters Addis Ababa..
|
6th April, 1941
|
Italian Army
in
Ethiopia
surrenders to Allied forces.
|
6th April, 1941
|
Germany
,
Italy
and
Bulgaria
invade
Yugoslavia
.
|
10th April, 1941
|
General
Paul von Kleist
and the 1st Panzer Group enter Belgrade.
|
12th April, 1941
|
Yosuke Matsuoka
of
Japan
signs non-aggression pact with
Soviet Union
.
|
14th April, 1941
|
Yugoslavia
surrenders to the
German Army
.
|
17th April, 1941
|
Marmaduke Pattle
, RAF's leading war ace, killed while fighting in
Greece
.
|
20th April, 1941
|
Greece
surrenders to the
German Army
.
|
21st April, 1941
|
General
Erwin Rommel
and his army enter
Egypt
.
|
25th April, 1941
|
The
Luftwaffe
destroy the
House of Commons
in Westminster.
|
10th May, 1941
|
Rudolf Hess
flies to
Scotland
and is arrested by the authorities.
|
10th May, 1941
|
Frank Whittle's jet-propelled
Gloster E28
takes its first flight.
|
15th May, 1941
|
The
Bismarck
sinks the British battlecruiser
Hood
.
|
24th May, 1941
|
The
Bismarck
attacked and sunk by the
Royal Navy
.
|
27th May, 1941
|
The
Bismarck
is sunk by the
British Navy
.
|
26th May 1941
|
The British government introduces plans to
ration
clothes and furniture.
|
1st June, 1941
|
Syria
invaded by
British Army
and
Free French
forces.
|
8th June, 1941
|
Operation Punishment
comes to and end.
|
22nd June, 1941
|
Adolf Hitler
launches
Operation Barbarossa
.
|
22nd June, 1941
|
Finland
declares war on the
Soviet Union
.
|
25th June, 1941
|
Hungary
declares war on the
Soviet Union
.
|
27th June, 1941
|
Armistice signed in
Syria
.
|
12th July, 1941
|
Soviet Union
and
Britain
sign an agreement of mutual aid.
|
12th July, 1941
|
Richard Acland
launches the
Common Wealth Party
.
|
26th July, 1941
|
The
German Army
advances on
Leningrad
.
|
12th August, 1941
|
Military forces from
Soviet Union
and
Britain
invade Iran.
|
25th August, 1941
|
The
German Army
captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in the
Soviet Union
.
|
20th September, 1941
|
The
German Army
advances on
Moscow
.
|
6th October, 1941
|
The
Royal Air Force
bombs the German city of Nuremberg.
|
13th October, 1941
|
General
Hideki Tojo
becomes prime minister of
Japan
.
|
16th October, 1941
|
Masha Bruskina
, first Soviet partisan to be executed in public by the
German Army
.
|
26th October, 1941
|
The British aircraft carrier,
Ark Royal
is sunk off
Gibraltar
.
|
13th November, 1941
|
Emperor Hirohito
officially approves the attack on the
United States
.
|
1st December, 1941
|
Britain
declares war on
Finland
,
Hungary
and
Romania
.
|
5th December, 1941
|
Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at
Pearl Harbor
.
|
7th December, 1941
|
Japanese troops invade
Malaya
,
Thailand
and the
Philippines
.
|
8th December, 1941
|
Japanese forces sink the
Prince of Wales
and
Repulse
off the east coast of
Malaya
.
|
10th December, 1941
|
Japanese troops invade
Burma
.
|
11th December, 1941
|
America First Committee
is dissolved.
|
11th December, 1941
|
The
National Service Act
, that conscripted unmarried women, was passed by Parliament.
|
18th December, 1941
|
Adolf Hitler
sacks
Heinrich von Brauchitsch
as commander in chief of the
German Army
.
|
19th December, 1941
|
Japanese Army
capture Manila, the capital of the
Philippines
.
|
22nd December, 1941
|
Hong Kong
surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison
|
25th December, 1941
|
Japanese Army
capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the
Malaya
.
|
11th January, 1942
|
Reinhard Heydrich
organizes the
Wannsee Conference
.
|
20th January, 1942
|
General
Arthur Percival
orders retreat to
Singapore
.
|
25th January, 1942
|
USA government announces the establishment of relocation camps for
Japanese Americans
.
|
29th January, 1942
|
Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of
Singapore
|
8th February, 1942
|
The
Scharnhorst
and the
Prinz Eugen
start their successfully break out of Brest.
|
12th February, 1942
|
General
Arthur Percival
surrenders
Singapore
to Japanese.
|
15th February, 1942
|
Japanese Air Force
bomb Darwin in
Australia
.
|
19th February, 1942
|
General
Douglas MacArthur
and the United States forces leave the
Philippines
|
22nd February, 1942
|
The
Royal Air Force
bomb Lubeck in
Germany
.
|
23rd March, 1942
|
Allied raid on
St Nazaire
.
|
27th March, 1942
|
Hermann Balck
and the 3rd Panzer Division captures Salonika.
|
9th April, 1942
|
George VI
awards the George Cross to the people of
Malta
.
|
9th April, 1942
|
The
United States Air Force
bomb Tokyo.
|
18th April, 1942
|
Pierre Laval
becomes minister of foreign affairs in
Vichy France
.
|
18th April, 1942
|
The
Luftwaffe
start bombing
Exeter
,
Bath
and other historic cities in Britain.
|
23rd April, 1942
|
Japanese Army
capture Mandalay in
Burma
.
|
1st May 1942
|
Start of the battle of
Coral Sea
.
|
6th May, 1942
|
Reinhard Heydrich
is shot in Prague by Czech resistance fighters.
|
27th May, 1942
|
Arthur Harris
orders the first 1000 bomber attack on
Germany
at
Cologne
.
|
30th May, 1942
|
Start of the battle of
Midway
.
|
3rd June, 1942
|
The
Gestapo
destroy the village of
Lidice
in
Czechoslovakia
.
|
10th June, 1942
|
Erwin Rommel
defeats
Neil Richie
at
Gazala
.
|
14th June, 1942
|
Erwin Rommel
and the
German Army
captures
Tobruk
.
|
21st June, 1942
|
General
Erich von Manstein
captures Sevastopol on the Black Sea.
|
2nd July, 1942
|
Donald Bennett
appointed as commander of the
Pathfinder Force
.
|
5th July, 1942
|
Japanese Army
land on
Guadalcanal
.
|
7th July, 1942
|
The
Messerschmitt Me 262
makes its first test flight.
|
18th July, 1942
|
The
Royal Air Force
bomb
Hamburg
in
Germany
.
|
26th July, 1942
|
Alexander Vandegrift
and the
US Marines
land on
Guadalcanal
.
|
7th August, 1942
|
The
US Marines
use the
Navajo Code
for the first time
.
|
7th August, 1942
|
General
Bernard Montgomery
is appointed commander of the British 8th Army.
|
13th August, 1942
|
The
Flying Fortress
begins making first daylight bombing raids on Europe.
|
17th August, 1942
|
5,000 Canadian and 1,000 British troops raid the port of
Dieppe
in
France
.
|
19th August, 1942
|
The
German Army
enters
Stalingrad
.
|
24th August, 1942
|
The
Duke of Kent
dies in an air crash in Scotland.
|
25th August, 1942
|
Erwin Rommel
attacks Eighth Army at
Alam el Halfa
.
|
30th August, 1942
|
The
B-29 Stratafortress
makes its first flight.
|
21st September, 1942
|
General
Bernard Montgomery
orders counter-attack at
El Alamein
.
|
23rd October, 1942
|
Thomas Kinkaid
faces
Nobutake Kondo
at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
|
26th October, 1942
|
Hornet
is sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
|
27th October, 1942
|
The
German Army
defeated at
El Alamein
.
|
4th November, 1942
|
General
Dwight D. Eisenhower
,leads the invasion of
Tunisia
.
|
8th November, 1942
|
Admiral
Jean Darlan
surrenders French North Africa to
Dwight D. Eisenhower
.
|
11th November, 1942
|
Adolf Hitler
orders the occupation of
Vichy France
.
|
11th November, 1942
|
The
British Army
recaptures
Tobruk
.
|
12th November, 1942
|
Admiral
William Halsey
leads successful naval campain at
Guadalcana
.
|
13th November, 1942
|
Erich von Manstein
and the 4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to relieve the 6th Army.
|
12th December, 1942
|
Admiral
Jean Darlan
assassinated by member of
French Resistance
in Algiers.
|
24th December, 1942
|
The
Luftwaffe
renews its air attacks on
London
.
|
18th January, 1943
|
The Allies capture
Tripoli
.
|
23rd January, 1943
|
British and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock bombing of
Nazi Germany
.
|
25th February, 1943
|
Jurgen von Arnium
replaces
Erwin Rommel
as commander of the
Deutsches Afrika Korps
.
|
9th March, 1943
|
Germany
announces the discovery of 4,443 Polish officers at
Katyn
in the
Soviet Union
.
|
13th April, 1943
|
Yitzhak Zuckerman
leads the
Warsaw Uprising
.
|
19th April, 1943
|
The Allies capture
Tunis
.
|
7th May, 1943
|
Over 130,000 members of the
German Army
surrender in
Tunisia
.
|
13th May, 1943
|
Wing Commander
Guy Gibson
leads the
Dambusters Raid
.
|
16th May, 1943
|
Jean Moulin
holds the first meeting of the
Conseil National de la Resistance
in Paris.
|
27th May, 1943
|
Jean Moulin
, leader of the
French Resistance
, murdered by the
Gestapo
.
|
8th July, 1943
|
A
German
aircraft bombs
Whitehall Cinema
in East Grinstead and kills 235 people.
|
9th July, 1943
|
Allied troops land on German-occupied
Sicily
.
|
10th July, 1943
|
Air Marshall
Arthur Harris
orders further bombing of
Hamburg
.
|
24th July, 1943
|
Victor Emmanuel III
dismisses
Benito Mussolini
from office in
Italy
.
|
25th July, 1943
|
The
Red Army
recaptures the city of Kharkov.
|
23rd August, 1943
|
Bernard Montgomery
and the 8th Army land at Reggio
in
Italy
.
|
3rd September, 1943
|
The
Tirpitz
and
Scharnhorst
bombard the Spitzbergen weather station.
|
7th September, 1943
|
Benito Mussolini
is rescued from prison by a team led by
Otto Skorzeny
.
|
12th September, 1943
|
Benito Mussolini
establishes a new fascist government at Salo on Lake Garda,
Italy
.
|
15th September, 1943
|
Italy's new prime minister,
Pietro Badoglio
, signs armistice with the Allies.
|
23rd September, 1943
|
The
Red Army
recaptures the city of Smolensk.
|
25th September, 1943
|
General
Mark Clark
and 5th Army capture
Naples
.
|
13th October, 1943
|
Italy's prime minister,
Pietro Badoglio
, declares war on
Germany
.
|
13th October, 1943
|
Evans Carlson
and the 2nd Raider Battalion land in
Guadalcana
.
|
4th November, 1943
|
The
Red Army
recaptures the city of Kiev.
|
6th November, 1943
|
The intensive bombing of
Berlin
by the
RAF
begins.
|
18th November, 1943
|
Allied invasion of the
Gilbert Islands
.
|
20th November, 1943
|
Eduard Benes
and
Joseph Stalin
sign a Soviet-Czech peace treaty in Moscow.
|
12th December, 1943
|
The
Scharnhorst
is sunk by the
Duke of York
off the coast of
Norway
.
|
26th December, 1943
|
Winston Churchill
,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
and
Joseph Stalin
meet at
Tehran
in Iran.
|
28th December, 1943
|
General
John Lucas
and US 5th Army land at
Anzio
.
|
22nd January, 1944
|
Allied invasion of the
Marshall Islands
.
|
31st January, 1944
|
Allied forces bomb monastery at
Monte Cassino
.
|
15th February, 1944
|
The
Luftwaffe
make their heaviest raids on
London
since May 1941.
|
19th February, 1944
|
Merrill's Marauders
begin their first campaign in
Burma
.
|
24th February, 1944
|
Orde Wingate
launches Operation Thursday in
Burma
.
|
5th March, 1944
|
United States Air Force
begin daylight air attacks on
Berlin
.
|
6th March, 1944
|
Orde Wingate
killed in plane crash in
Burma
.
|
14th March, 1944
|
Pierre Brossolette
, one of the leaders of the
French Resistance
, murdered by the
Gestapo
.
|
22nd March, 1944
|
Paul von Kleist
and
Erich von Manstein
recalled to
Germany
and sacked by
Adolf Hitler
.
|
29th March, 1944
|
Allied bombing of
Nuremberg Raid
.
|
30th March, 1944
|
The
German Army
evacuates Sevastopol.
|
9th May, 1944
|
Allied troops take
Monte Cassino
.
|
18th May, 1944
|
General
Mark Clark
and Allied troops capture Rome.
|
4th June, 1944
|
Second Front
opened with Allied landings in
Normandy
.
|
6th June, 1944
|
Pietro Badoglio
resigns and
Invanoe Bonomi
forms new government in
Italy
.
|
9th June, 1944
|
The
SS
carry out a revenge attack on the
Maquis
at
Oradour-sur-Glane
.
|
10th June, 1944
|
First
V1 Flying bomb
lands on Britain.
|
13th June, 1944
|
The
Red Army
recaptures the city of Minsk.
|
3rd July, 1944
|
Allied troops capture Caen in
Normandy
.
|
9th July, 1944
|
Hideki Tojo
resigns as prime minister of
Japan
.
|
18th July, 1944
|
July Plot
against
Adolf Hitler
fails.
|
20th July, 1944
|
Polish resistance forces in
Warsaw
rebel against German occupation.
|
1st August, 1944
|
V1 Flying bomb
brought down by a
Gloster Meteor
, Britain's first jet-fighter.
|
4th August, 1944
|
Allied troops land on the French coast between the ports of Toulon and Cannes.
|
14th August, 1944
|
Ernst Thaelmann
is executed at
Buchenwald
.
|
18th August, 1944
|
United States Army
enters Paris.
|
24th August, 1944
|
Romania
declares war on
Germany
.
|
25th August, 1944
|
British troops enter Brussels, the capital of
Belgium
.
|
4th September, 1944
|
First
V2 Rocket
lands on Britain.
|
8th September, 1944
|
The French provisional government abolishes the
Vichy
legislature.
|
10th September, 1944
|
Allied troops enter
Nazi Germany
.
|
11th September, 1944
|
Winston Churchill
and
Franklin D. Roosevelt
meet in Quebec to discuss post-war
Germany
.
|
11th September, 1944
|
Romania
signs an armistice with the
United States
,
Britain
and the
Soviet Union
.
|
12th September, 1944
|
Start of
Operation Market Garden
.
|
17th September, 1944
|
Finland
signs an armistice with the
Soviet Union
.
|
19th September, 1944
|
Allied troops forced to withdraw from
Arnhem
.
|
25th September, 1944
|
Adolf Hitler
calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60 in
Germany
for army service.
|
25th September, 1944
|
Canadian troops liberate the
French
port of Calais.
|
28th September, 1944
|
The
German Army
crushes
Warsaw Uprising
.
|
2nd October, 1944
|
The
British Army
land in German-occupied
Greece
.
|
4th October, 1944
|
The
Red Army
enters
Czechoslovakia
.
|
6th October, 1944
|
Winston Churchill
,
Joseph Stalin
and
Franklin D. Roosevelt
meet in Moscow.
|
9th October, 1944
|
Erwin Rommel
is forced to commit suicide by the Nazi government.
|
14th October, 1944
|
General
Douglas MacArthur
returns to the
Philippines
.
|
20th October, 1944
|
General
Walter Krueger
and the US 6th Army landed on
Leyte
.
|
22nd October, 1944
|
The Battle of
Leyte Gulf
begins.
|
24th October, 1944
|
Bulgaria
signs an armistice with the Allies.
|
28th October, 1944
|
The
Tirpitz
is sunk after being hit by
Tallboy
bombs.
|
12th November, 1944
|
The
Red Army
establish new government in
Hungary
.
|
21st December, 1944
|
The
British 14th Army
begin a new offensive in
Burma
.
|
3rd January, 1945
|
US forces make landings on the island of
Luzon
.
|
9th January, 1945
|
The
Red Army
liberate
Warsaw
.
|
17th January, 1945
|
The
Red Army
capture Budapest.
|
18th January, 1945
|
Start of
Operation Ten-Go
.
|
2nd February, 1945
|
Winston Churchill
,
Joseph Stalin
and
Franklin D. Roosevelt
meet at the
Yalta Conference
.
|
4th February, 1945
|
Air Marshall
Arthur Harris
orders the bombing of
Dresden
.
|
13th February, 1945
|
United States Army
land on
Iwo Jima
.
|
19th February, 1945
|
United States Army
capture Manila, the capital of the
Philippines
.
|
28th February, 1945
|
United States Army Air Force
creates
firestorm
in
Tokyo
.
|
9th March, 1945
|
British and Indian troops capture Mandalay in
Burma
.
|
20th March, 1945
|
United States Army
cross the River Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim.
|
22nd March, 1945
|
Last
V2 Rocket
lands on Britain.
|
27th March, 1945
|
The
Red Army
enters Austria.
|
29th March, 1945
|
United States Army
land on
Okinawa
.
|
1st April, 1945
|
A 700 plane
kamikaze
attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers..
|
6th April, 1945
|
The Japanese giant battleship
Yamato
sunk off
Okinawa
.
|
7th April, 1945
|
General
Harold Alexander
and British forces mount a new offensive in northern Italy.
|
9th April, 1945
|
Pastor
Dietrich Bonhoffer
is hanged by the Nazi authorities.
|
9th April, 1945
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
dies and is replaced by
Harry S. Truman
.
|
12th April, 1945
|
Liberation of
Belsen
and
Buchenwald
.
|
13th April, 1945
|
Ernie Pyle
, America's most famous war journalist, killed by Japanese sniper.
|
17th April, 1945
|
Liberation of
Dachau
.
|
25th April , 1945
|
United Nations Conference
held in
San Francisco
.
|
25th April , 1945
|
Benito Mussolini
is executed in Milan by Italian partisans.
|
28th April , 1945
|
German
forces in
Italy
surrender to the Allies.
|
29th April , 1945
|
Adolf Hitler
and
Eva Braun
commit suicide.
|
30th April, 1945
|
Joseph Goebbels
commits suicide.
|
1st May , 1945
|
Commander of German troops in
Berlin
surrenders.
|
2nd May, 1945
|
Queen Wilhelmina
returns to the
Netherlands
.
|
2nd May, 1945
|
Frank Messervy
and his troops captures Ragoon in
Burma
.
|
3rd May, 1945
|
All military forces in
Germany
surrender to the Allies.
|
4th May, 1945
|
Denmark
liberated by Allied trrops.
|
5th May, 1945
|
End of the
Battle of the Atlantic
.
|
7th May, 1945
|
General
Alfred Jodl
signs the official surrender of Germany.
|
8th May, 1945
|
Winston Churchill
announces
VE day
.
|
8th May, 1945
|
The
German Army
in
Czechoslovakia
surrender to the
Red Army
.
|
9th May, 1945
|
Heinrich Himmler
commits suicide.
|
22nd May, 1945
|
William Joyce
(Lord Haw Haw) is captured at Flensburg.
|
28th May, 1945
|
Manhattan Project
scientists test
atom bomb
at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
|
16th July, 1945
|
United States Army Air Force
drops
atom bomb
on
Hiroshima
.
|
6th August, 1945
|
United States Army Air Force
drops
atom bomb
on
Nagasaki
.
|
9th August , 1945
|
General
Tomoyuki Yamashita
surrenders army in the
Philippines
.
|
2nd September, 1945
|
General
Douglas MacArthur
accepts Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
|
2nd September, 1945
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