1939

• Sep 1 - Germany invades Poland, world war 2 begins.
• Sep 3 - Britain and France declare war on Germany.
• Sep 8 - The US remains neutral but president Roosevelt declares 'limited national emergency'.
• Sep 17 - Russia invades Poland.
• Sep 27 - Warsaw surrenders.
• Oct 6 - The last remaining polish forces surrender.
• Nov 30 - Russia invades Finland.

1940

• Jan 17 - The first german Enigma messages are decoded by british intelligence
• Mar 12 - Russia-Finland war ends. It convinces Hitler that the russian military is ineffective.
• Apr 8 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
• Apr 14 - British forces land in Narvik, Norway, but leave in 10 days
• May 10 - Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. Winston Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister.
• May 20 - German forces reach the british channel.
• May 27 - Evacuation of british and french forces to britain at Dunkirk begins.
• Jun 4 - The evacuation at dunkirk ends. 338,000 troops were rescued. Churchill declares that britain will never surrender.
• Jun 9- Norway surrenders.
• Jun 10 - Italy declares war on the collapsing France and on Britain.
• Jun 14 - German troops march into Paris.
• Jun 18 - Russia invades Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
• Jun 22 - France surrenders.
• Jun 27 - Russia annexes the eastern regions of Romania.
• Jul 1 - Germany invades the british channel islands.
• Jul 10 - The 'Battle of Britain' air campaign begins.
• Jul 18 - Churchill declares this is Britain's finest hour.
• Aug 8 - The luftwaffe begins to bomb british early warning radars
  Aug 15 - The luftwaffe loses 76 aircraft in one day.
• Aug 25 - British night bombers bomb berlin.
• Sep 3 - Hitler changes the Luftwaffe's objective from destroying the Royal Air Force to bombing London. This allows the R.A.F to recover and win the battle of britain.
• Sep 13 - Italy invades british-held Egypt from Libya, the north african campaign begins.
• Sep 15 - The largest Luftwaffe daytime bombardment, it loses 56 aircraft
• Sep 27 - Japan joins the 'axis'.
• Oct 7 - German troops enter their Ally Romania, germany's only source of oil which is threatened by Russia.
• Oct 12 - Hitler cancels the invasion of Britain.
• Oct 23 - Spain rejects Hitler's offer to join the war and remains neutral.
• Oct 28 - Italy invades Greece from Albania, but stopped, twice.
• Nov 11 - British carrier aircraft sink italian fleet in Taranto's harbor. Yamamoto in japan is impressed by their success.
• Nov 20 - Hungary and Romania, both military dictatorships, join the axis.
• Dec 9 - British forces in Egypt counter attack the italians and advance along the libyan coast.

1941

• Feb 12 - Hitler sends Rommel and the 'Afrika Korps' to help the italians in north africa.
• Mar 1 - Bulgaria joins the axis. The axis-russian border now stretch from the baltic sea to the black sea.
• Mar 3 - Rommel attacks the british forces in north africa.
• Mar 5 - British troops arrive at Greece to support it.
• Apr 6 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
• Apr 13 - After military clashes, Japan and Russia sign non-aggression pact.
• Apr 17 - Yugoslavia surrenders. British forces evacuate greek mainland to Crete.
• Apr 27 - German troops occupy Athens.
• May 9 - u-boat U-110 is captured with Enigma settings tables.
• May 20 - German paratroopers and airborne troops invade Crete by air.
• May 31 - British forces in Crete surrender.
• Jun 8 - British forces aided by israeli volunteers invade french controlled Syria and Lebanon.
• Jun 22 - Germany invades Russia. Hitler orders maximum cruelty against civilians. It will push the russians to fanatic resistance.
• Jul 3 - Stalin orders the 'scorched earth' strategy.
• Jul 21 - The Luftwaffe bombs Moscow.
• Jul 24 - Japan invades french Indo-China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia).
• Jul 31 - Hermann Goering orders the S.S. to prepare "the final solution", the plan to murder the millions of european jews.
• Sep 15 - The long german siege of Leningrad begins.
• Sep 18 - The germans occupy Kiev and reach the Crimea.
• Oct 6 - The german attack towards Moscow begins.
• Oct 16 - Russian government leaves Moscow, the germans occupy Odessa.
• Oct 17 - General Tojo becomes Japan's prime minister.
• Oct 21 - Churchill orders top priority to any request by the Enigma decoders.
• Oct 26 - The germans occupy Kharkov.
• Nov 30 - The foremost german forces reach 27km from moscow, but can advance no further.
• Dec 6 - The massive russian counter attack near Moscow begins. The germans are pushed back.
• Dec 7 - The japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines. The US joins the war.
• Dec 11 - Germany and italy declare war on the US.
• Dec 19 - Hitler appoints himself commander-in-chief as he no longer trusts his generals ability to win the war

1942

• Jan 2 - Japanese forces occupy Manila.
• Jan 10 - Japanese forces invades Indonesia.
• Jan 11 - Japanese forces occupy Malaysia.
• Jan 12 - Japanese forces invade Burma.
• Jan 13 - German U-boats begin to sink ships along the US east coast.
• Jan 21 - Rommel begins another offensive in north africa.
• Jan 25 - Japanese forces invade the Solomon islands.
• Jan 26 - US troops begin to arrive in Britain.
• Feb 15 - Singapore surrenders to the japanese.
• Mar 20 - 'industrial-scale' murder of jews by poison gas begins in nazi death camps.
• Apr 18 - Doolittle's raid - US bombers bomb Tokyo.
• May 7 - Battle of the Coral Sea. One japanese carrier and one american carrier are sunk.
• May 6 - The last american troops in the Phillipines surrender.
• May 8 - The german spring offensive in southern russia begins.
• Jun 4 - Battle of Midway. Four japanese carriers are sunk, and one american carrier. Japan's naval superiority is lost.
• Jul 3 - Japanese forces land in Guadalcanal.
• Jul 28 - Stalin forbids further russian retreats, at any cost.
• Aug 7 - US forces land in Guadalcanal.
• Aug 13 - Montgomery becomes commander of the british 8th army in north africa.
• Aug 19 - allied landing in Dieppe fails. The battle of Stalingrad begins.
• Sep 6 - The german advance is stopped in Stalingrad.
• Sep 23 - The battle of El Alamein in north africa begins.
• Nov 8 - Allied forces land in western north africa, at rommel's back.
• Nov 19 - The russian flanking counter attack around Stalingrad begins.
• Dec 19 - The germans fail to break the encirclement of their army in Stalingrad.

1943

• Feb 2 - The last german forces in Stalingrad surrender.
• May 13 - The long north africa campaign ends. The allies control north africa.
• May 22 - 41 german u-boats sunk in 3 weeks. doenitz retreats all u-boats from the north atlantic.
• Jul 5 - The battle of Kursk begins.
• Jul 10 - The allies invade Sicily.
• Jul 25 - Mussolini is replaced and arrested.
• Aug 10 - The germans know the the Enigma was decoded, but believe the new models and procedures are safe again.
• Sep 3 - The allies invade Italy's mainland.
• Sep 8 - Italy surrenders. The german forces in northern and central Italy occupy it
  Sep 25 - The russians liberate smolensk.
• Oct - Allied anti submarine bases established in the azores, in the middle of the atlantic ocean.
• Nov 6 - The russians liberate Kiev.
• Nov 19 - The marines land in Tarawa.
• Nov - Rommel takes command of the 'atlantic wall' in the french coast.
• Dec - P-51 fighters provide all-the-way long range escort to bombers over Germany.

1944

• Jan 16 - Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of western allies forces.
• Jan 22 - Allies land in Anzio, Italy.
• Mar - The russians advance into the Ukraine.
• Apr 10 - The russians liberate Odessa.
• May - Allied bombers begin to concentrate on the german fuel industry.
• Jun 5 - The german navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time.
• Jun 6 - D-Day. American, British, Canadian forces invade France at the beaches of Normandy.
• Jun 12 - 1st german V-1 cruise missile attack on Britain.
• Jun 15 - The marines land in Saipan.
• Jun 19 - Battle of the phillipine sea.
• Jun 22 - The russians advance to Belarus.
• Jun 27 - Cherburg is liberated.
• Jul 20 - Hitler survives an assassination attempt by senior german officers with light wounds.
• Jul 21 - Hitler appoints General Guderian to chief of the army (OKH). The marines land in Guam.
• Jul 24 - The marines land in Tinian.
• Jul 28 - The russians reach the old german-russian border in central poland.
• Jul 30 - Patton breaks out of the beachhead deep into France.
• Aug 1 - Warsaw revolts against the germans.
• Aug 15 - The allies land in southern France.
• Aug 23 - Romania surrenders to the russians. Its oil fields were germany's only source of natural oil.
• Aug 25 - Paris is liberated.
• Aug - Allied fighters achieve air superiority over germany.
• Sep 6 - Finland and Bulgaria surrenders to the russians.
• Sep 8 - 1st german V-2 ballistic missile attack on Britain.
• Sep 17 - Operation 'Market Garden' in Holland.
• Oct 5 - British forces land in Greece.
• Oct 10 - The germans evacuate Riga, Latvia.
• Oct 14 - Athens is liberated.
• Oct 20 - The marines land in Leyte.
• Nov 14 - B-29 bombers begin to bomb Tokyo from bases in the mariana islands.
• Dec 16 - The german attack in the Ardennes begin.

• Jan 9 - The marines land in Luzon, Phillipines.
• Jan 23 - The russians reach Germany itself at the Oder river.
• Jan 27 - The russians liberate the Auschwitz death camp.
• Jan 28 - The Ardennes campaign ends.
• Feb 13 - The russians occupy Budapest, Hungary. Dresden bombed.
• Feb 19 - The marines land in Iwo Jima.
• Mar 4 - Manila is liberated.
• Mar 6 - The allies occupy Cologne, Germany.
• Mar 7 - US forces cross the Rhine on the Remagen bridge.
• Mar 16 - The battle of Iwo Jima ends.
• Mar 27 - V-2 missile attacks end.
• Apr 1 - German forces encircled in the Ruhr by the americans.
• Apr 6 - The marines land in Okinawa. Japan orders all its forces to use kamikaze suicide tactic.
• Apr 7 - The super battleship Yamato is sunk on its way to a kamikaze fight in Okinawa.
• Apr 10 - The allies occupy Hannover.
• Apr 11 - The allies liberate the Buchenwald death camp.
• Apr 12 - President Roosevelt dies..
• Apr 13 - The russians enter Wienna.
• Apr 16 - The russians begin final advance to berlin.
• Apr 25 - American and russian forces meet.
• Apr 26 - German defense in northern Italy finally collapse.
• Apr 29 - Mussolini is executed by the italian resistance. The allies liberate the Dachau death camp.
• Apr 30 - Adolf hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin. He appoints Admiral Doenitz as his successor.
• May 8 - Germany surrenders. The war in europe ends.
• May 28 - 450 B-29 bombers bomb Yokohama.
• Jun 2 - 660 B-29 bombers bomb japanese cities.
• Jun 21 - Battle of Okinawa ends.
• Jul 16 - the US tests the atomic bomb in New Mexico. It works.
• Aug 6 - Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb.
• Aug 8 - Russia declares war on japan.
• Aug 9 - Nagasaki is destroyed by an atomic bomb.
• Aug 14 - Japan surrenders. World war 2 finally ends.

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