Timeline World War I and II

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WORLD WAR I

28 June 1914

December 1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinald and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

The Christmas Truce: soldiers from both sides come out of their trenches and share drinks and greetings on Christmas Eve

August 1915

April 1915

Battles of Lone Pine and the Nek at Gallipoli

The Germans are driven back from Ypres (Belgium)

May 1915

1-4 August 1914

January 1915

25 April 1915

A German U-boat sinks the Lusitania, Killing 1198 people, including 128 Americans; this event contributes to the decision of the USA to enter the war in 1917

Germany declares war on Russia and France, and invades neutral Luxemburg and Belgium; Word War I begins

The first Zeppelin raid on Britain

The landing at Gallipoli

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WORLD WAR I

December 1915

October 1916

July-November 1916

1917

1916

The evacuation from Gallipoli

The first conscription plebiscitie in Australia is narrowly defeated

The Battle of the Somme; tanks are used for the first time

The stalemate continues on the Westerm Front

Fighting countries on the Westerm Front; battles are bought at Passchendaele, Ypres, Poziéres and Bullecourt

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WORLD WAR I

March 1918

November 1918

The signing of the Armistice between the Alies and Germany in a railway carriage in the French forest of Compiégne on 11 November 1918

The Ludendorff Offensive begins in a final attempt by Germany to break through the Allied lines and win the war

August 1918

April 1917

The start of the Allied counter-offensive

The USA joins the war

January-June 1919

October 1917

April 1918

November 1918

Communist revolution in Russia. A key moment in the Russian Revolution: the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917

The Paris Peace Conference is held to decided tha fate of Germany: Treaty of Versailles is drawn up

Australian troops recapture the town of Villers-Bretonneux

The Armistice (ceasefire) is signed; end of World War I

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WORLD WAR II

25 October- 1 November 1936

1919

16 August 1936

30 January 1933

30 June- 2 July 1934

This year the Olympics took place in Berlin, an occasion that was used by the Nazis to carry out perfect state propaganda by hiding anti-Semitism and violent actions from the international community.

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany leading the National Socialist German Workers Party (better know as the Nazi Party)

The Paris Peace Coference is held the Treaty of Versailles is signed, leaving Germany humillated

• Nazi Germany and fascist Italy sign a cooperation treaty. • Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union

Hummingbird operation. Series of political assassinations ordered by Hitler who declared them legal and necessary deaths to achieve the objectives of the Nazi party.

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WORLD WAR II

9-10 November 1938

30 November 1939 - 12 March 1940

1940

A series of attacks take place on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany and Australia. The attacks become know as Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass)

France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands fall to Germany; Dunkirk evacuation.

7 July 1937

Winter War. The Soviet Union invades Finland.

Japan invades China

1 Sepetember 1939

11-13 March 1938

9 April 1940 - 9 June 1940

22 June 1941

Germany attacks Poland and Greman troops cross the border, causing Britain and France to declare war on Germany. All countries in the British Empire, including Australia, also declare war on Germany.

German troops invade Austria and Germany incorporates Austria into the German Empire (Reich) creating the Anschluss.

Beginning of Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the USSR)

Germany invades Denmark and Norway

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WORLD WAR II

6 June 1944

December 1941

8 September 1943

July-November 1942

19 February 1942

D-Day landing of Allied troops in Europe

Darwin bombed by the Japanese, Australia put on "total war" footing.

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore - war in the Pacific war begins.

Badoglio's government surrenders unconditionally before the Allies. TheGermans immediately take over control of Rome and northern Italy

The kokoda campaign fought between Australia and Japan in New Guinea

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WORLD WAR II

15 June and 9 July 1944

15 August 1945

8 May 1945

Battle of Saipan. It was an air-naval battle that took place on the island of Saipan, pitting the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Unite States Navy during the occupation by American troops

VP Day (Victory in the Pacific Day) officially marks the end of war in the Pacific.

VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) marks the end of the war in Europe

6-9 August 1945

30 April 1945

The USA drops two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (6August) and Nagasaki (9 August) leading to Japan's surrender

Hitler commits suicide in Berlin, leading to the surrender of Germany