Transcript World War II: Dates to Remember

World War II:
Dates to Remember
1939
• Germany invaded
Poland, starting World
War II (Sept. 1)
• Britain and France
Declare War on
Germany. (Sept. 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).
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).
1942
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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).
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).
1944
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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).
Japan’s 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 Japan’s 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).
1945
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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).