Labels:text | font | paper | black and white | document OCR: AUGUST 23, 1939 Germany and U.S.S.R. make pact to share Poland between them SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 German troops invade Poland in Blitzkrieg attack SEPTEMBER 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany SEPTEMBER 17, 1939 J.S.S.R. invades Poland after secret pact with Hitler APRIL 9, 1940 German troops invade Denmark and Norway MAY 10, 1940 Churchill becomes British prime minister after Nazi blitzkrieg in Netherlands MAY 26, 1940 Evacuation of Dunkirk begins after German advance into France cuts off Allies JUNE 10, 1940 Italy declares war on France and Britain JUNE 14, 1940 Germans march into Paris, Parisians flee capital JUNE 22, 1940 Franco-German armistice agrees German occupation of northern France SEPTEMBER 7, 1940 Hitler's Blitz begins - aerial bombing of British cities SEPTEMBER 15, 1940 Battle of Britain ends as Germans fail to crush RAF as part of plot to invade Britain SEPTEMBER 27, 1940 Japan joins Axis pact and invades French Indochina FEBRUARY 14, 1941 Germany's Rommel lands in Tripoli with Afrika Korps APRIL 6, 1941 German troops invade Yugoslavia and Greece JUNE 22, 1941 German troops invade U.S.S.R ., breaking non- aggression pact JULY 24, 1941 Japanese troops mobilize in French Indochina as Vichy regime yields control DECEMBER 5, 1941 German advance checked on the outskirts of Moscow DECEMBER 7, 1941 Japanese attack on U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor JANUARY 10, 1942 Conference in Berlin plans Final Solution - extermination of Jews FEBRUARY 15, 1942 Singapore surrenders to Japan after two-week siege JUNE 4, 1942 U.S. and Japan fight Battle of Midway AUGUST 7, 1942 J.S. marines land on Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific OCTOBER 23, 1942 Montgomery attacks Afrika Korps at El-Alamein NOVEMBER 8, 1942 Allied troops make torchlight landings in Morocco and Algeria JANUARY 31, 1943 Russians surround the German Army occupying Stalingrad MAY 12, 1943 150,000 Afrika Korps soldiers surrender MAY 17, 1943 RAF dambusters cause floods in Germany's industrial Ruhr area JULY 10, 1943 Allies invade Sicily - first landing in Axis Europe JULY 25, 1943 Mussolini is deposed by anti-Fascists after Allied invasion of Italy SEPTEMBER 8, 1943 Italian government surrenders, signs armistice with Allies FEBRUARY 29, 1944 MacArthur begins drive through Pacific Islands JUNE 4, 1944 Allies welcomed by citizens as they liberate Rome JUNE 6, 1944 Allies make D-Day andings in Normandy JUNE 12, 1944 London hit by V-1 (pilotless flying bomb) for first time JULY 20, 1944 Plot by German Army soldiers to assassinate Hitler with bomb fails AUGUST 25, 1944 De Gaulle enters Paris as France is liberated SEPTEMBER 9, 1944 Allies liberate Brussels and Liege, Nazis flood dykes as they retreat OCTOBER 25, 1944 U.S. crushes Japan at Battle of Leyte Gulf JANUARY 17, 1945 Soviet and Polish troops capture Warsaw FEBRUARY 4, 1945 Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet at Yalta, agree to divide Germany among Allies FEBRUARY 14, 1945 Allied planes devastate historic city of Dresden MARCH 9, 1945 Allied air attack on Tokyo kills around 82,000 people APRIL 1, 1945 U.S. lands in Okinawa, last step before Japan APRIL 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide as Russians reach Berlin MAY 7, 1945 Germans surrender unconditionally: V.E. Day JULY 2, 1945 Allies begin moving into German occupation zones JULY 26, 1945 Attlee, Truman, and Stalin meet at Potsdam AUGUST 6, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima AUGUST 9, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki AUGUST 15, 1945 Japan surrenders: V.J. Day; World War II ends
