timeline of second world war in detail with explanation
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30 Jan 1933
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1937
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1938
German Anschluss with Austria
30 SEPT 1938
Treaty of Munich
MARCH 1939
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
MARCH/APRIL 1939
Britain rearms and reassures Poland
LATE AUG 1939
Russia and Germany sign pact
1 SEPT 1939
Hitler invades Poland
3 SEPT 1939
Britain and France declare war on Germany
SEPT 1939-MAY 1940
“Phoney War”
APRIL/MAY 1940
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
10 MAY 1940
Blitzkrieg
13 MAY 1940
Chamberlain resigns
26 MAY 1940
Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
11 JUNE 1940
Italy enters war on side of Axis powers
22 JUNE 1940
France signs armistice with Germany
10 JULY-31 OCT 1940
Battle of Britain
22 SEPT 1940
Tripartite Pact
DECEMBER 1940
British rout Italians in N. Africa
EARLY 1941
Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
22 JUNE 1941
Hitler attacks Russia – Operation Barbarossa
7 DEC 1941
Pearl Harbor
8 DEC 1941
Britain and US declare war on Japan
FEB 1942
Japanese take Singapore
JUNE 1942
Battle of Midway
AUG 1942
Allies invade N. Africa
23 OCT 1942
Battle of El Alamein
NOV 1942
Battle of Stalingrad/
Allies push into N. Africa
12 MAY 1943
Axis surrenders in N. Africa
JULY 1943
Allies invade Sicily
AUG 1943
Allies take Sicily
3 SEPT 1943
Italy surrenders
NOV 1943
Allies meet at Tehran
JAN 1944
Leningrad relieved
JUNE 5 1944
Rome liberated
JUNE 6 1944
D-Day
25 AUG 1944
Paris liberated
8 SEPT 1944
V2 Flying Bombs
16 DEC 1944
Battle of the Bulge Begins
MARCH 1945
Allies cross the Rhine
APRIL 1945
Russians reach Berlin
28 APRIL 1945
Mussolini captured and executed
30 APRIL 1945
Hitler commits suicide
7 MAY 1945
Germany unconditionally surrenders
8 MAY 1945
V.E. day
5 JULY 1945
Churchill loses election
5 AUG 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima