| Chronology
of the Second World War |
Date
|
| The
German
Army
invades Czechoslovakia. |
15th
March, 1939
|
| Edouard
Daladier
announces that France
intends to increase defence spending. |
17th
March, 1939
|
| Adolf
Hitler
demands the free city of Danzig in Poland. |
21st
March, 1939
|
| Britain
and France
pledge to support Poland. |
29th
March, 1939
|
| Italy
invades and occupies Albania. |
7th
April, 1939
|
| Britain
and France
pledge to support Romania
and Greece. |
13th
April, 1939
|
| Soviet
Union
proposes a triple alliance with Britain
and France. |
18th
April, 1939
|
| Sweden,
Norway
and Finland
reject Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts. |
17th
May, 1939
|
| Winston
Churchill
urges the government to form a military alliance
with the Soviet
Union. |
9th
July, 1939
|
| Joseph
Stalin
and Adolf
Hitler
sign the Nazi-Soviet
Pact. |
23rd
August, 1939.
|
| Britain
and Poland
sign a treaty of mutal assistance. |
25th
August, 1939.
|
| The
German
Army
invades Poland
and annexes the free city of Danzig.
|
1st
September, 1939
|
| Britain
and France
declare war on Nazi
Germany. |
3rd
September, 1939
|
| Parliament
passes the National
Services (Armed Forces) Act. |
3rd
September, 1939
|
| Neville
Chamberlain
appoints Winston
Churchill
as First Lord of the Admiralty. |
3rd
September, 1939
|
| The
German
Army
reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish
border with the Soviet
Union. |
17th
September, 1939
|
| The
Red
Army
invades Poland. |
17th
September, 1939
|
| Reinhard
Heydrich
announces that all Jews
in Poland
are to be imprisoned in Ghettos. |
21st
September, 1939
|
| The
Polish Army surrenders in Warsaw. |
27th
September, 1939
|
| Franklin
D. Roosevelt
announces that the USA
will remain neutral in the European war. |
3rd
October, 1939
|
| The
British battleship Royal
Oak
is sunk by U-boat captained by Gunther
Prien. |
14th
October, 1939
|
| The
Schutz
Staffeinel (SS) establish
the first Jewish
Ghetto in Piotrkow. |
28th
October, 1939
|
| Germany
formally annexes western Poland
into the German Reich. |
1st
November, 1939
|
| Joseph
Stalin
formally annexes eastern Poland
into the Soviet
Union. |
2nd
November, 1939
|
| The
Red
Army
invades Finland. |
30th
November, 1939
|
| The
Soviet
Union
is expelled from the League
of Nations. |
14th
December, 1939
|
| The
Red
Army
attacks the Mannerheim Line in Finland. |
11th
February, 1940
|
| Finland
signs a peace treaty with the Soviet
Union. |
12th
March, 1940
|
| Paul
Reynaud
replaces Edouard
Daladier
as prime minister of France. |
20th
March, 1940
|
| Britain
and France
agree not to sign a separate peace with Nazi
Germany. |
28th
March, 1940
|
| Neville
Chamberlain
appoints Lord
Beaverbrook as
minister of aircraft production. |
3rd
April, 1940
|
| Soldiers
in the British
Army land
at Namsos in Norway. |
8th
April, 1940
|
| The
German
Army
invades Denmark
and Norway. |
9th
April, 1940
|
| Adolf
Hitler
launches his Western
Offensive and invades France. |
10th
May, 1940
|
| Neville
Chamberlain
resigns as prime minister and is replaced by Winston
Churchill. |
10th
May, 1940
|
| Anthony
Eden announces
the formation of the Home
Guard. |
14th
May, 1940
|
| Netherlands
surrenders and Queen
Wilhelmina flees
to England. |
14th
May, 1940
|
| Parliament
grants Winston
Churchill and his government wide emergency
powers. |
22nd
May, 1940
|
| General
Gerd
von Rundstedt and
the German
Army pierce the French defences at Sedan. |
23rd
May, 1940
|
| Adolf
Hitler
orders the German forces in France
and Belgium
to halt their advance. |
23rd
May, 1940
|
| Adolf
Hitler
orders the German forces in resume their advance
into France
and Belgium. |
25th
May, 1940
|
| Evacuation
from Dunkirk
begins. |
27th
May, 1940
|
| Belgium
surrender to the German
Army and Leopold
III is
arrested. |
28th
May, 1940
|
| Winston
Churchill
appoints Stafford
Cripps as
British ambassador to the Soviet
Union. |
30th
May, 1940
|
| The
last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian
forces evacuated from Dunkirk. |
4th
June, 1940
|
| J.
B. Priestley
gives first BBC radio broadcast. |
5th
June, 1940
|
| Benito
Mussolini declares
war on the Allies. |
10th
June, 1940
|
| Gotthard
Heinrici
and the 12th Corps break through the Maginot
Line. |
14th
June, 1940
|
| The
German
Army enters Paris. |
14th
June, 1940
|
| The
USA
rejects France's renewed appeal for help against
the German
Army. |
15th
June, 1940
|
| Henri-Philippe
Petain
begins to negotiate an armistice with Germany. |
17th
June, 1940
|
| France
signs armistice with Nazi
Germany and is divided into two zones. |
22nd
June, 1940
|
| Winston
Churchill
recognizes Charles
De Gaulle as leader of the Free
French. |
28th
June, 1940
|
| The
Royal
Navy destroys
most of the French
Navy at Mers-el-Kébir. |
3rd
July, 1940
|
| Franklin
D. Roosevelt
bans the shipment of strategic materials to Japan. |
5th
July, 1940
|
| Ark
Royal sinks
Dunkerqueat at Mers-el-Kébir. |
6th
July, 1940
|
| The
Luftwaffe
launch
the start of the Battle
of Britain. |
10th
July, 1940
|
| Henri-Philippe
Petain becomes
president of Vichy
France. |
11th
July, 1940
|
| Winston
Churchill
invites Hugh
Dalton to establish the Special
Operations Executive. |
16th
July, 1940
|
| The
Italian
Army advances into British Somaliland. |
3rd
August, 1940
|
| The
Luftwaffe
began
attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft,
airfields and installations. |
13th
August, 1940
|
| The
Luftwaffe
carry
out a all-night bombing raid on London
and begins the Blitz. |
23rd
August, 1940
|
| The
Royal
Air Force bombs Berlin. |
25th
August, 1940
|
| Rodolfo
Graziani
and Italian
Army make a rapid advance into Egypt. |
13th
September, 1940
|
| City
of Bernares
sunk by a German torpedo killing 73 children on
the way to Canada. |
17th
September, 1940
|
| Winston
Churchill
decides to abandon the attempt to capture the
port of Dakar. |
25th
September, 1940
|
| Vidkun
Quisling
installed by the Germans as prime minister of Norway. |
25th
September, 1940
|
| Yosuke
Matsuoka
of Japan
signs the Tripartite
Pact with Nazi
Germany and Italy. |
27th
September, 1940
|
| Winston
Churchill
appoints Kingsley
Wood as
Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
3rd
October, 1940
|
| Winston
Churchill
appoints Ernest
Bevin as Minister of Labour. |
3rd
October, 1940
|
| Adolf
Hitler
postpones Operation
Sealion. |
12th
October, 1940
|
| Adolf
Hitler
meets Francisco
Franco an attempt to persuade Spain
to join the war. |
23rd
October, 1940
|
| The
Mustang
P-51B makes its first flight. |
26th
October, 1940
|
| The
Italian
Army invades Greece. |
28th
October, 1940
|
| The
Royal
Navy attacks
the Italian
Navy at Taranto. |
11th
November, 1940
|
| The
Luftwaffe
bomb
Coventry
killing 380 people and injuring 865. |
14th
November, 1940
|
| The
Royal
Air Force bomb
Hamburg
in Germany. |
16th
November, 1940
|
| Airbourbe
radar
successfully used by the Royal
Air Force for
the first time. |
18th
November, 1940
|
| British
Army
captures Tobruk. |
22nd
January, 1941
|
| Bulgaria
signs the Tripartite Pact and joins forces with Germany,
Italy
and Japan. |
1st
March, 1941
|
| The
British
Army invades
Italian-controlled Ethiopia. |
7th
March, 1941
|
| US
Congress passes the Lend-Lease
Act. |
11th
March, 1941
|
| General
Erwin
Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert
War. |
24th
March, 1941
|
| General
Andrew
Cunningham, commander of allied forces in
East Africa, enters Addis Ababa.. |
6th
April, 1941
|
| Italian
Army
in Ethiopia
surrenders to Allied forces. |
6th
April, 1941
|
| Germany,
Italy
and Bulgaria
invade Yugoslavia. |
10th
April, 1941
|
| General
Paul
von Kleist and the 1st Panzer Group enter
Belgrade. |
12th
April, 1941
|
| Yosuke
Matsuoka
of Japan
signs non-aggression pact with Soviet
Union. |
14th
April, 1941
|
| Yugoslavia
surrenders to the German
Army. |
17th
April, 1941
|
| Marmaduke
Pattle,
RAF's leading war ace, killed while fighting in Greece. |
20th
April, 1941
|
| Greece
surrenders to the German
Army. |
21st
April, 1941
|
| General
Erwin
Rommel and his army enter Egypt. |
25th
April, 1941
|
| The
Luftwaffe
destroy
the House
of Commons in Westminster. |
10th
May, 1941
|
| Rudolf
Hess
flies to Scotland
and is arrested by the authorities. |
10th
May, 1941
|
| Frank
Whittle's jet-propelled Gloster
E28 takes its first flight. |
15th
May, 1941
|
| The
Bismarck
sinks the British battlecruiser Hood. |
24th
May, 1941
|
| The
Bismarck
attacked and sunk by the Royal
Navy. |
27th
May, 1941
|
| The
Bismarck
is sunk by the British
Navy. |
26th
May 1941
|
| The
British government introduces plans to ration
clothes and furniture. |
1st
June, 1941
|
| Syria
invaded by British
Army and
Free
French forces. |
8th
June, 1941
|
| Operation
Punishment
comes to and end. |
22nd
June, 1941
|
| Adolf
Hitler
launches Operation
Barbarossa. |
22nd
June, 1941
|
| Finland
declares war on the Soviet
Union. |
25th
June, 1941
|
| Hungary
declares war on the Soviet
Union. |
27th
June, 1941
|
| Armistice
signed in Syria. |
12th
July, 1941
|
| Soviet
Union
and Britain
sign an agreement of mutual aid. |
12th
July, 1941
|
| Richard
Acland
launches the Common
Wealth Party. |
26th
July, 1941
|
| The
German
Army advances on Leningrad. |
12th
August, 1941
|
| Military
forces from Soviet
Union and Britain
invade
Iran. |
25th
August, 1941
|
| The
German
Army captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in
the Soviet
Union. |
20th
September, 1941
|
| The
German
Army advances on Moscow. |
6th
October, 1941
|
| The
Royal
Air Force bombs the German city of
Nuremberg. |
13th
October, 1941
|
| General
Hideki
Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan. |
16th
October, 1941
|
| Masha
Bruskina,
first Soviet partisan to be executed in public
by the German
Army. |
26th
October, 1941
|
| The
British aircraft carrier, Ark
Royal is sunk off Gibraltar. |
13th
November, 1941
|
| Emperor
Hirohito
officially approves the attack on the United
States. |
1st
December, 1941
|
| Britain
declares war on Finland, Hungary
and
Romania. |
5th
December, 1941
|
| Japanese
forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl
Harbor. |
7th
December, 1941
|
| Japanese
troops invade Malaya, Thailand
and the Philippines. |
8th
December, 1941
|
| Japanese
forces sink the Prince
of Wales and Repulse
off the east coast of Malaya. |
10th
December, 1941
|
| Japanese
troops invade Burma. |
11th
December, 1941
|
| America
First Committee
is dissolved. |
11th
December, 1941
|
| The
National
Service Act, that conscripted unmarried
women, was passed by Parliament. |
18th
December, 1941
|
| Adolf
Hitler
sacks Heinrich
von Brauchitsch as
commander in chief of the German
Army. |
19th
December, 1941
|
| Japanese
Army
capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines. |
22nd
December, 1941
|
| Hong
Kong
surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison |
25th
December, 1941
|
| Japanese
Army
capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Malaya. |
11th
January, 1942
|
| Reinhard
Heydrich organizes
the Wannsee
Conference. |
20th
January, 1942
|
| General
Arthur
Percival orders retreat to Singapore. |
25th
January, 1942
|
| USA
government announces the establishment of
relocation camps for Japanese
Americans. |
29th
January, 1942
|
| Japanese
troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore |
8th
February, 1942
|
| The
Scharnhorst
and the Prinz
Eugen start
their successfully break out of Brest. |
12th
February, 1942
|
| General
Arthur
Percival surrenders Singapore
to
Japanese. |
15th
February, 1942
|
| Japanese
Air Force
bomb Darwin in Australia. |
19th
February, 1942
|
| General
Douglas
MacArthur and the United States forces leave
the Philippines |
22nd
February, 1942
|
| The
Royal
Air Force bomb
Lubeck in Germany. |
23rd
March, 1942
|
| Allied
raid on St
Nazaire. |
27th
March, 1942
|
| Hermann
Balck
and the 3rd Panzer Division captures Salonika. |
9th
April, 1942
|
| George
VI awards
the George Cross to the people of Malta. |
9th
April, 1942
|
| The
United
States Air Force bomb
Tokyo. |
18th
April, 1942
|
| Pierre
Laval
becomes minister of foreign affairs in Vichy
France. |
18th
April, 1942
|
| The
Luftwaffe
start
bombing Exeter, Bath
and other historic cities in Britain. |
23rd
April, 1942
|
| Japanese
Army
capture Mandalay in Burma. |
1st
May 1942
|
| Start
of the battle of Coral
Sea. |
6th
May, 1942
|
| Richard
Heydrich
is shot in Prague by Czech resistance fighters. |
27th
May, 1942
|
| Arthur
Harris
orders the first 1000 bomber attack on Germany
at Cologne. |
30th
May, 1942
|
| Start
of the battle of Midway. |
3rd
June, 1942
|
| The
Gestapo
destroy the village of Lidice
in
Czechoslovakia. |
10th
June, 1942
|
| Erwin
Rommel
defeats Neil
Richie at Gazala. |
14th
June, 1942
|
| Erwin
Rommel
and the German
Army captures Tobruk. |
21st
June, 1942
|
| General
Erich
von Manstein captures
Sevastopol on the Black Sea. |
2nd
July, 1942
|
| Donald
Bennett
appointed as commander of the Pathfinder
Force. |
5th
July, 1942
|
| Japanese
Army
land on Guadalcanal. |
7th
July, 1942
|
| The
Messerschmitt
Me 262 makes its first test flight. |
18th
July, 1942
|
| The
Royal
Air Force bomb
Hamburg
in Germany. |
26th
July, 1942
|
| Alexander
Vandegrift
and the US
Marines land on Guadalcanal. |
7th
August, 1942
|
| The
US
Marines use the Navajo
Code for
the first time. |
7th
August, 1942
|
| General
Bernard
Montgomery is
appointed commander of the British 8th Army. |
13th
August, 1942
|
| The
Flying
Fortress begins making first daylight
bombing raids on Europe. |
17th
August, 1942
|
| 5,000
Canadian and 1,000 British troops raid the port
of Dieppe
in France. |
19th
August, 1942
|
| The
German
Army enters Stalingrad. |
24th
August, 1942
|
| Erwin
Rommel
attacks Eighth Army at Alam
el Halfa. |
30th
August, 1942
|
| The
B-29
Stratafortress makes its first flight. |
21st
September, 1942
|
| General
Bernard
Montgomery orders
counter-attack at El
Alamein. |
23rd
October, 1942
|
| Thomas
Kinkaid faces
Nobutake
Kondo at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. |
26th
October, 1942
|
| Hornet
is sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. |
27th
October, 1942
|
| The
German
Army defeated at El
Alamein. |
4th
November, 1942
|
| General
Dwight
D. Eisenhower,leads the invasion of Tunisia. |
8th
November, 1942
|
| Admiral
Jean
Darlan surrenders
French North Africa to Dwight
D. Eisenhower. |
11th
November, 1942
|
| Adolf
Hitler
orders the occupation of Vichy
France. |
11th
November, 1942
|
| The
British
Army recaptures
Tobruk. |
12th
November, 1942
|
| Admiral
William
Halsey leads successful naval campaign at Guadalcanal. |
13th
November, 1942
|
| Erich
von Manstein
and the 4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to
relieve the 6th Army. |
12th
December, 1942
|
| Admiral
Jean
Darlan assassinated by member of French
Resistance in Algiers. |
24th
December, 1942
|
| The
Luftwaffe
renews
its air attacks on London. |
18th
January, 1943
|
| The
Allies capture Tripoli. |
23rd
January, 1943
|
| British
and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock
bombing of Nazi
Germany. |
25th
February, 1943
|
| Jurgen
von Arnium
replaces Erwin
Rommel as
commander of the Deutsches
Afrika Korps. |
9th
March, 1943
|
| Germany
announces the discovery of 4,443 Polish officers
at Katyn
in the Soviet
Union. |
13th
April, 1943
|
| Yitzhak
Zuckerman
leads the Warsaw
Uprising. |
19th
April, 1943
|
| The
Allies capture Tunis. |
7th
May, 1943
|
| Over
130,000 members of the German
Army surrender in Tunisia. |
13th
May, 1943
|
| Wing
Commander Guy
Gibson leads
the Dambusters
Raid. |
16th
May, 1943
|
| Jean
Moulin
holds the first meeting of the Conseil
National de la Resistance in Paris. |
27th
May, 1943
|
| Jean
Moulin,
leader of the French
Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo. |
8th
July, 1943
|
| A
German
aircraft bombs Whitehall
Cinema in East Grinstead and kills 235
people. |
9th
July, 1943
|
| Allied
troops land on German-occupied Sicily. |
10th
July, 1943
|
| Air
Marshall Arthur
Harris orders further bombing of Hamburg. |
24th
July, 1943
|
| Victor
Emmanuel III
dismisses Benito
Mussolini from
office in Italy. |
25th
July, 1943
|
| The
Red
Army recaptures the city of Kharkov. |
23rd
August, 1943
|
| Bernard
Montgomery
and the 8th Army land at Reggio in
Italy. |
3rd
September, 1943
|
| The
Tirpitz
and Scharnhorst
bombard the Spitzbergen weather station. |
7th
September, 1943
|
| Benito
Mussolini is
rescued from prison by a team led by Otto
Skorzeny. |
12th
September, 1943
|
| Benito
Mussolini establishes
a new fascist government at Salo on Lake Garda, Italy. |
15th
September, 1943
|
| Italy's
new prime minister, Pietro
Badoglio, signs armistice with the Allies. |
23rd
September, 1943
|
| The
Red
Army recaptures the city of Smolensk. |
25th
September, 1943
|
| General
Mark
Clark and
5th Army capture Naples. |
13th
October, 1943
|
| Italy's
prime minister, Pietro
Badoglio, declares war on Germany. |
13th
October, 1943
|
| Evans
Carlson and
the 2nd Raider Battalion land in Guadalcanal. |
4th
November, 1943
|
| The
Red
Army recaptures the city of Kiev. |
6th
November, 1943
|
| The
intensive bombing of Berlin
by the RAF
begins. |
18th
November, 1943
|
| Allied
invasion of the Gilbert
Islands. |
20th
November, 1943
|
| Eduard
Benes
and Joseph
Stalin sign a Soviet-Czech peace treaty in
Moscow. |
12th
December, 1943
|
| The
Scharnhorst
is sunk by the Duke
of York off the coast of Norway. |
26th
December, 1943
|
| Winston
Churchill, Franklin
D. Roosevelt and
Joseph
Stalin meet at Tehran
in Iran. |
28th
December, 1943
|
| General
John
Lucas and US 5th Army land at Anzio. |
22nd
January, 1944
|
| Allied
invasion of the Marshall
Islands. |
31st
January, 1944
|
| Allied
forces bomb monastery at Monte
Cassino. |
15th
February, 1944
|
| The
Luftwaffe
make their heaviest raids on London
since May 1941. |
19th
February, 1944
|
| Merrill's
Marauders
begin their first campaign in Burma. |
24th
February, 1944
|
| Orde
Wingate
launches Operation Thursday in Burma. |
5th
March, 1944
|
| United
States Air Force
begin daylight air attacks on Berlin. |
6th
March, 1944
|
| Orde
Wingate
killed in plane crash in Burma. |
14th
March, 1944
|
| Pierre
Brossolette,
one of the leaders of the French
Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo. |
22nd
March, 1944
|
| Paul
von Kleist
and Erich
von Manstein recalled to Germany
and sacked by Adolf
Hitler. |
29th
March, 1944
|
| Allied
bombing of Nuremberg
Raid. |
30th
March, 1944
|
| The
German
Army evacuates Sevastopol. |
9th
May, 1944
|
| Allied
troops take Monte
Cassino. |
18th
May, 1944
|
| General
Mark
Clark and Allied troops capture Rome. |
4th
June, 1944
|
| Second
Front
opened with Allied landings in Normandy. |
6th
June, 1944
|
| Pietro
Badoglio resigns
and Invanoe
Bonomi forms new government in Italy. |
9th
June, 1944
|
| The
SS
carry out a revenge attack on the Maquis
at
Oradour-sur-Glane. |
10th
June, 1944
|
| First
V1
Flying bomb lands
on Britain. |
13th
June, 1944
|
| The
Red
Army recaptures the city of Minsk. |
3rd
July, 1944
|
| Allied
troops capture Caen in Normandy. |
9th
July, 1944
|
| Hideki
Tojo
resigns as prime minister of Japan. |
18th
July, 1944
|
| July
Plot
against Adolf
Hitler fails. |
20th
July, 1944
|
| Polish
resistance forces in Warsaw
rebel against German occupation. |
1st
August, 1944
|
| V1
Flying bomb brought
down by a Gloster
Meteor, Britain's first jet-fighter. |
4th
August, 1944
|
| Allied
troops land on the French coast between the
ports of Toulon and Cannes. |
14th
August, 1944
|
| Ernst
Thaelmann
is executed at Buchenwald. |
18th
August, 1944
|
| United
States Army
enters Paris. |
24th
August, 1944
|
| Romania
declares war on Germany. |
25th
August, 1944
|
| British
troops enter Brussels, the capital of Belgium. |
4th
September, 1944
|
| First
V2
Rocket lands
on Britain. |
8th
September, 1944
|
| The
French provisional government abolishes the Vichy
legislature. |
10th
September, 1944
|
| Allied
troops enter Nazi
Germany. |
11th
September, 1944
|
| Winston
Churchill
and Franklin
D. Roosevelt meet
in Quebec to discuss post-war Germany. |
11th
September, 1944
|
| Romania
signs an armistice with the United
States, Britain
and the Soviet
Union. |
12th
September, 1944
|
| Start
of Operation
Market Garden. |
17th
September, 1944
|
| Finland
signs an armistice with the Soviet
Union. |
19th
September, 1944
|
| Allied
troops forced to withdraw from Arnhem. |
25th
September, 1944
|
| Adolf
Hitler
calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60
in Germany
for army service. |
25th
September, 1944
|
| Canadian
troops liberate the French
port of Calais. |
28th
September, 1944
|
| The
German
Army crushes Warsaw
Uprising. |
2nd
October, 1944
|
| The
British
Army land
in German-occupied Greece. |
4th
October, 1944
|
| The
Red
Army enters Czechoslovakia. |
6th
October, 1944
|
| Winston
Churchill, Joseph
Stalin and Franklin
D. Roosevelt meet
in Moscow. |
9th
October, 1944
|
| Erwin
Rommel
is forced to commit suicide by the Nazi
government. |
14th
October, 1944
|
| General
Douglas
MacArthur returns
to the Philippines. |
20th
October, 1944
|
| General
Walter
Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte. |
22nd
October, 1944
|
| The
Battle of Leyte
Gulf begins. |
24th
October, 1944
|
| Bulgaria
signs an armistice with the Allies. |
28th
October, 1944
|
| The
Tirpitz
is sunk after being hit by Tallboy
bombs. |
12th
November, 1944
|
| The
Red
Army establish new government in Hungary. |
21st
December, 1944
|
| The
British
14th Army begin
a new offensive in Burma. |
3rd
January, 1945
|
| US
forces make landings on the island of Luzon. |
9th
January, 1945
|
| The
Red
Army liberate Warsaw. |
17th
January, 1945
|
| The
Red
Army capture Budapest. |
18th
January, 1945
|
| Start
of Operation
Ten-Go. |
2nd
February, 1945
|
| Winston
Churchill, Joseph
Stalin and Franklin
D. Roosevelt meet
at the Yalta
Conference. |
4th
February, 1945
|
| Air
Marshall Arthur
Harris orders the bombing of Dresden. |
13th
February, 1945
|
| United
States Army
land on Iwo
Jima. |
19th
February, 1945
|
| United
States Army
capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines. |
28th
February, 1945
|
| United
States Army Air Force
creates firestorm
in Tokyo. |
9th
March, 1945
|
| British
and Indian troops capture Mandalay in Burma. |
20th
March, 1945
|
| United
States Army
cross the River Rhine between Mainz and
Mannheim. |
22nd
March, 1945
|
| Last
V2
Rocket lands
on Britain. |
27th
March, 1945
|
| The
Red
Army enters Austria. |
29th
March, 1945
|
| United
States Army
land on Okinawa. |
1st
April, 1945
|
| A
700 plane kamikaze
attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers.. |
6th
April, 1945
|
| The
Japanese giant battleship Yamato
sunk off Okinawa. |
7th
April, 1945
|
| General
Harold
Alexander and
British forces mount a new offensive in northern
Italy. |
9th
April, 1945
|
| Pastor
Dietrich
Bonhoffer is
hanged by the Nazi authorities. |
9th
April, 1945
|
| Franklin
D. Roosevelt dies
and is replaced by Harry
S. Truman. |
12th
April, 1945
|
| Liberation
of Belsen
and
Buchenwald. |
13th
April, 1945
|
| Ernie
Pyle,
America's most famous war journalist, killed by
Japanese sniper. |
17th
April, 1945
|
| Liberation
of Dachau. |
25th
April , 1945
|
| United
Nations Conference
held in San
Francisco. |
25th
April , 1945
|
| Benito
Mussolini
is executed in Milan by Italian partisans. |
28th
April , 1945
|
| German
forces in Italy
surrender to the Allies. |
29th
April , 1945
|
| Adolf
Hitler
and Eva
Braun commit
suicide. |
30th
April, 1945
|
| Joseph
Goebbels
commits suicide. |
1st
May , 1945
|
| Commander
of German troops in Berlin
surrenders. |
2nd
May, 1945
|
| Queen
Wilhelmina returns
to the Netherlands. |
2nd
May, 1945
|
| Frank
Messervy
and his troops captures Ragoon in Burma. |
3rd
May, 1945
|
| All
military forces in Germany
surrender to the Allies. |
4th
May, 1945
|
| Denmark
liberated
by Allied trrops. |
5th
May, 1945
|
| End
of the Battle
of the Atlantic. |
7th
May, 1945
|
| General
Alfred
Jodl signs
the official surrender of Germany. |
8th
May, 1945
|
| Winston
Churchill
announces VE
day. |
8th
May, 1945
|
| The
German
Army in Czechoslovakia
surrender
to the Red
Army. |
9th
May, 1945
|
| Heinrich
Himmler
commits suicide. |
22nd
May, 1945
|
| William
Joyce
(Lord Haw Haw) is captured at Flensburg. |
28th
May, 1945
|
| Manhattan
Project
scientists test atom
bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
16th
July, 1945
|
| United
States Army Air Force
drops atom
bomb on Hiroshima. |
6th
August, 1945
|
| United
States Army Air Force
drops atom
bomb on Nagasaki. |
9th
August , 1945
|
| General
Tomoyuki
Yamashita surrenders army in the Philippines. |
2nd
September, 1945
|
| General
Douglas
MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender in
Tokyo Bay. |
2nd
September, 1945
|
