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