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Title: World War II: Dates to Remember


1
World War IIDates to Remember
2
1939
  • Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II
    (Sept. 1)
  • Britain and France Declare War on Germany. (Sept.
    3)

3
1940
  • Germany invaded Denmark and Norway (April 9).
  • Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands (May
    10).
  • Italy declared war on France and Great Britain
    (June 10).
  • France signed an armistice with Germany (June
    22).
  • Battle of Britain begins (July 10).

4
1941
  • Germany invaded Greece and Yugoslavia (April 6).
  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union (June 22).
  • German troops completed the blockade of
    Leningrad, which lasted until January 1944 (Sept.
    8)
  • Japan bombed U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor,
    Hawaii (Dec. 7).
  • The U.S., Great Britain, and Canada declare war
    on Japan (Dec. 8).

5
1942
  • Singapore fell to the Japanese (Feb. 15).
  • U. S. and Philippine troops on Bataan Peninsula
    surrendered (April 9).
  • U.S. Bombers hit Tokyo in the Doolittle raid
    (April 18)
  • Allies checked a Japanese assault in the battle
    of the Coral Sea (May 4-8)
  • The allies defeated Japan in the Battle of Midway
    (June 4-6)
  • U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal (Aug. 7).
  • Hitler ordered his forces to capture Stalingrad
    (Aug. 25).
  • Britain attacked the Axis at El Alamein in Egypt
    (Oct. 23).
  • Allied Troops landed in Algeria and Morocco (Nov.
    8).

6
1943
  • The last Germans surrendered at Stalingrad (Feb.
    2).
  • Axis forces in northern Africa surrendered (May
    13.)
  • Germany opened an assault near the Soviet city of
    Kursk. (July 4).
  • Allied forces invaded Sicily (July 10).
  • Italy secretly surrendered to the Allies (Sept.
    3).
  • Allied troops landed at Salerno, Italy (Sept. 9).
  • U.S. Forces invaded Tarawa (Nov. 20).

7
1944
  • Allied troops landed in Normandy in the D-Day
    invasion of northern France (June 6).
  • U.S. defeat Japanese in the Battle of the
    Philippine Sea (June 19-20).
  • Japans Prime Minister Tojo resigned (July 18).
  • A plot to assassinate Hitler failed (July 20).
  • The Allies began landing in the Philippines (Oct.
    20).
  • The Allies defeat Japans navy in the Battle of
    Leyte Gulf in the Philippines (Oct. 23-26).
  • The Germans struck back at U.S. troops in the
    Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16).

8
1945
  • U.S. Marines captured Iwo Jima (March 16).
  • Hitler took his life in Berlin (April 30).
  • Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies
    in Reims, France, ending World War II in Europe
    (May 7).
  • Allied forces captured Okinawa (June 21).
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6).
  • Soviet Union declared war on Japan (Aug. 8).
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Aug. 9).
  • Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally (Aug.
    14).
  • Japan surrenders formally (Sept. 2).
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