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World War II Timeline

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Origins

• Ending of World War 1
• Rise of Hitler
• Lebensraum

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Blitzkrieg

June1940

Sep1939

Germany invades Poland

Italy declares war on Britain and France

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May1940

May1940

Germany invades France, Belgium and Holland

Evacuation of Dunkirk

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June1940

June 1940

June1941

Germany invades the Soviet Union

U-boat offensive in the Atlantic begins

Fall of France

Dec1941

Pearl Harbor

Jul-Sept1940

Germany and Italy invade Yugoslavia and Greece

Apr1941

Battle of Britain

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Jul 1943

June 1942

Battle of Kursk

Battle of Midway

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Battle of Stalingrad

Aug1942

Oct1942

Battle of El Alamein

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Mar-Jul 1944

Sep1943

Italy surrenders

Aug1944

Liberation of Paris

Allied successes in Burma

Sept1943

Sep1944

Battle of Arnhem

Allied landings in Italy

Jun1944

D-Day landings in France

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Dec 1944 - Jan 1945

May1945

Germany surrenders

Battle of the Bulge

Sep 1945

Japan surrenders

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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Aug1945

Apr1945

Liberation of Belsen

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Aftermath

• Nuremberg war trials
• Refugees
• Reconstruction

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On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Luxembourg was occupied that same day. The Netherlands surrendered on 15 May, Belgium on the 28th. At first, Great Britain supported the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, but it withdrew later.

The Battle of Britain was the successful defense of Great Britain against the air raids conducted by the German air force in 1940 after the fall of France during World War II.

The Battle of Britain was the successful defense of Great Britain against the air raids conducted by the German air force in 1940 after the fall of France during World War II.

Battle of Midway, (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.

The battle of Arnhem (17–25 September 1944) was a bold – but ultimately failed – attempt to outflank German defences in north-west Europe by establishing a bridgehead across the lower Rhine river at the Dutch town of Arnhem.

After heavy fighting, Soviet forces neared Adolf Hitler's command bunker in central Berlin. On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide. Within days, Berlin fell to the Soviets. German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland. They also falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany.

The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.

The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and enabling Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference.

Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river, which bore the name of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.