Transcript WWII Timeline

WWII Timeline
1939------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SEPT 1- German invasion of Poland
- 8pm curfew for Jews in Germany
3- Britain and France declare war on Germany
NOV
8- Attempted assassination of Hitler
21- British Blockade Begins
23- Jews must wear star of David for identification
1940------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FEB
12- Deportation of Jews began
APR
9- Germany invades Denmark and Norway
MAY
10- Germany invades Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg
- Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
27- June 4- Miracle of Dunkirk, troops rescued by boat
JUNE 10- Italy declares war on Great Britain and France
14- Germans occupy Paris
- Germans break Maginot Line
JULY
10- Air attack on Britain begins
SEPT 7- All out Air war on Britain begins
15- 185 German planes shot down in the Battle of Britain
17- Hitler postpones invasion of Britain
27- Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis signed
OCT
16- US Begins draft 16.4 million registered
28- Italy Invades Greece
1940 Cont.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOV
DEC
15- Warsaw Ghetto established
20-25-Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia join the Tripartite Pact
15- Great Britain invades Libya in Northern Africa
1941------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FEB
12-Rommel to North Africa from Germany created the Afrika Corps
MAR
1- Bulgaria joins Tripartite
11- US approves Lend-Lease Act
28- Battle of Cape Matapan-Great Britain defeated the Italian Fleet
APR
6- Germany invades Greece and Yugoslavia
19- British retreat in Greece
23- British evacuate Greece
27- Germans occupy Athens
MAY
10- Rudolph Hess flys to Scotland
- German air raids damage Westminster Abby and Parliament in Britain
14-Bormann becomes Hess’s successor
- 3,600 Jews arrested in Paris
16- Petain approves collaboration with Germany
20-Germany starts air attacks on Crete
27- German ship Bismark sank
- US in national emergency
1941Cont. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JUNE 1- Crete falls to Germans
2- Mussolini and Hitler meet at Brenner Pass
5- Secretary of State Hull denounces the Vichy Collaboration
14- Axis funds are frozen in the US
18- Germany Turkish friendship pack signed in Ankara
22- Germany attack the USSR from the Baltic to the Black Sea
JULY
3- Scorched Earth Policy began by Stalin
12- Soviet-British mutual assistance pact
21- Maidanek Concentration Camp opened
31- All Jews in Europe are to be sent to extermination camps
AUG
9-12- Roosevelt meets with Churchill off Newfoundland
14- Atlantic Charter signed
SEPT 19- Germans occupy Kiev
23- Gas chamber testing at Auschwitz
OCT
2- Germany drives toward Moscow
NOV 18- British attack in North Africa
DEC
1- Soviets attack at Tula
7- Pearl Harbor Attacked
8- US and Britain declare war on Japan
11- Italy and Germany declare war on the US
13- Hungary and Bulgaria declare war on the US
19- Hitler assumes total control of the Armed Forces in the Reich
by end of Dec.- Japan taken Hong Kong, Guam and Wake Islands, and
invaded Burma, Malaya, Borneo,and the Philippines
1942------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JAN
1- United Nations declaration signed by 26 nations
20- Wannsee Conference- Final Solution
21- Field Marshall Rommel on the move in North Africa
FEB
-Japan occupies Singapore
MAR
15- Hitler predicts victory over USSR by summer
29- Trains form Paris to Auschwitz
APR
9- US surrender to Japan at Batan
MAY
6- Resistance in Philippines ended at Corregidor
7-8- Battle of the Coral Sea--Japanese defeated
27- Rommel counter attacks the British in North Africa
29- Heydrich-Concentration Camp Commandant-attacked by Czech rebels
30-31- Air raid on Cologne by RAF-- 1,000 bombers
June
4- Heydrich Dies, more grief put on Jews for the death
- Battle of Midway--4 Japanese carriers destroyed
5- Japan general retreat from Midway
10- Lidice destroyed in reprisal for Heydrichs death
23- First official gassings at Auschwitz
24- Eisenhower commander of the US forces in Europe
AUG
7- US Marines land on Guadalcanal
23- German attack Stalingrad
26-28- 7,000 Jews arrested in unoccupied France
1942 Cont.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SEPT
OCT
18- Food rations reduced for Jews
4- All Jews in Concentration Camps sent to Auschwitz to die
23- Montgomery(GB) attacks the Afrika Corps at El-Alamein
NOV
5- Rommel is defeated at El-Alamein
7-8- US and British troops land in Northern Africa
11- Germany Invades unoccupied France
19-20- Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
20- Montgomery captures Benghazi in North Africa, and has Rommel running
27- French fleet is scuttled (destroyed) by its own sailors so Nazis can’t use
1943------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JAN
14-Casablanca Conference
18- Resistance in Warsaw Ghetto
20-26-Deportation of Warsaw Jews to Auschwitz
23-British enter Tripoli
24-At the Casablanca Conference unconditional surrender
FEB
2- Stalingrad retaken by Soviets
9- Guadalcanal secured by US
18- Student uprising in Munich
MAR
9- Rommel recalled to Germany
13- New crematorium built at Auschwitz
- Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in an airplane
21- Another failed assassination attempt on Hitler at the Heroes Memorial Day
27- Mareth line broken in Northern Africa (southeast of Tunis)
1943 Cont. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------APR
17- British and American forces link up in Tunisia
19- Nazis destroy the Warsaw Ghetto
MAY
7- Tunis and Bizeria taken by Allies
13- Germans surrender in Northern Africa
19- Berlin declared Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews)
JUNE 12- Pantelleria Island of Sicily surrenders to Allies
JULY
10- Allies land in Sicily
19- Allies bomb Rome
25- Mussolini dismissed by King Victor Emmanuel
AUG
17- Sicily conquered by Allies
SEPT 3- Allies land on the Italian Mainland
8- Italy surrenders
9- Allies land at Salerno in Southern Italy
10- Germany occupies Rome
13- Mussolini rescued by Otto Skorzency
OCT
1- Allies enter Naples
13- Italy declares war on Germany
18- Jews for Rome sent to Auschwitz
19-30-Moscow Conference
NOV
6- Kiev recaptured by Soviets
9- UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration formed
22-26- Cairo Conference-- Churchill, Roosevelt, and CiangKai-shek of China
27- Auschwitz crematorium blown up
28- Teheran Conference-- Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
1943 Cont. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------DEC
3-7 2nd Cairo Conference-- included Stalin
24- Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in
Europe
26- Failed assassination attempt on Hitler by Lt. Col. Claus Schenk Graf von
Stauffenberg
1944------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JAN
3- Soviets reach Polish border
19- 29 month siege of Leningrad ended
22- Allies land at Anzio-behind German Lines in Italy
FEB
15- Monte Cassino destroyed-- Broke the Gustav Line
APR
5- Charles de Gaul head of French Liberation
14- Jews from Athens to Auschwitz
22- Soviets invade Rumania
MAY
11- Gustav line in Italy attacked--100 miles south of Rome
23- Allies move from Anzio Beachhead
25- Germans fall back from Anzio to Terracina
JUNE 4- Rome occupied by US
6- D Day Allies land at Normandy Beach
12- First V-1 rocket launched at Great Britain
14- De Gaulle returns to France
JULY
3- Minsk recaptured by Soviets
9- Rommel request removal of his troops form Normandy- RefusedRommel
joins the plot to kill Hitler
1944 Cont.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JULY
AUG
SEPT
OCT
NOV
DEC
18- Line at Caen broken by Allies
20-July Plot, fails at Rastenburg-- table stopped bomb from killing Hitler
25-27- US break throw in France at Saint-Lo
1- Polish underground revolts
4-8- Trial to hang conspirators in attempt on Hitler
15- Allies invade southern France
21-US reaches Seine river in France and surround Paris
23- Coup-de-tat in Rumania, Rumania surrenders
25- de Gaul returns to Paris
3- Brussels liberated by British
5- Soviet declares war on Bulgaria
8- First V-2 rocket launched at Britain
9- Armistice with Bulgaria
12- Invasion of Germany for West
14- Rommel commits suicide
20- Belgrade in Yugoslavia occupied by Soviets
16- All out Operation Queen in west Germany by Allies
26- Crematorium to be destroyed at Auschwitz, ordered by Himmler to
cover up
4- Battle of Saar begins
16- Battle of Bulge, German counteroffensive beaten back to former line
1945------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JAN
4-13- Kamikase pilots sunk 17 US ships
14-Soviets invade East Prussia
17- Warsaw liberated by Soviets
- Budapest Jews around 80,000 freed
20- Armistice with Hungary
27- Liberation of Lithuania
FEB
4-11- Yalta Conference of big Three-- Japans unconditional surrender
13- Fall of Budapest to the Soviets
19- Marines land on Iwo Jima
23- German Roer Line protecting Cologne breached by US
MAR
3- Declaration of war by Finland
7- Fall of Cologne
- Crossing of the Rhine by US
16- Allied attack on the Saar Basin
- US marines secure Iwo Jima
23- British-American crossing of the Rhine in the north and a drive to the Rhur
April
1- US land on Okinawa
10- More than 15,000 Jews freed at Bushenwald
11- Essen captured by the Allies--in west Germany in the heart of the Rhur
12- Death of President Roosevelt. Truman becomes President.
13- Occupation of Vienna by the Soviets
15- Around 40,000 prisoners freed at Belsen by British
16- Soviets on final push to Berlin
1945 Cont.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
16- Soviets on final push to Berlin
23-Outskirts of Berlin reached by Soviets
25- Refusal of Himmler’s offer to arrange German Surrender to the Allies
- Opening of the United Nations parley at San Francisco
- Meeting of American and Soviets troops at Torgau, on the Elbe s. of Berlin
28- Mussolini executed by Italian partisans near Lake Como and put on
display
MAY
JUNE
JULY
30- Hitler suicide in his Berlin bunker
- Around 33,000 inmates freed from concentration camps by US
2- Unconditional Surrender of the German armies in Italy
- Admiral Karl Doenity continues the Reich govt.
- Capitulation of Berlin
- Concentration camp at Theresienstadt taken over by Red Cross
5- Surrender of German armies in the Netherlands, Denmark, and north Ger.
6- Occupation of Plzen, Czechoslovakia, by US
7- Unconditional surrender signed by Gen. Alfred Jodl at Reims
8- V E Day victory in Europe
9- Field Marshal Keitel and Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov sign the German
unconditional surrender documents in Berlin
21-Okinawa secured by US
26- United Nations Charter signed by reps of 50 nations in San Francisco
12-8/2-Potsdam Conference
16- Atomic bomb test in New Mexico
1945 Cont.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AUG
6- Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima--US#s 66-78,000K
8- Soviets invade Manchuria- Declare war on Japan
9- Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki--US #’s 39,000K--Japan #s
240,000K
14- V Day Japan surrendered-- allowed to keep its emperor
SEP
2- Official signing of Japan’s surrender aboard the USS Missouri
NOV
20- Nuremberg tribunal opens
DEC
16-26- meeting of Big 3 in Moscow
October 16, 1946 Execution of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg