Dates of WWII

• 1st September 1939: Germany invades Poland
• 3rd September 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
• October 1939 - April 1940: Phoney War
• April 1940: Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
• May 1940: Hitler invades the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
• May 1940: Hitler invades France
• May 1940: Chamberlain retires, Churchill takes over
• May-June 1940: Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk)
• 22nd June 1940: France surrenders
• July 1940: Vichy France
• August 1940: Hitler's Operation Eagle and Operation Sea Lion
• 13th August 1940: Battle of Britain begins
• September 1940 - May 1941: the Blitz
• September 1941: Hitler postpones Operation Eagle
• 22nd June 1941: Operation Barbarossa (Great Patriotic War)
• 7th December 1941: Pearl Harbor
• June 1942: Battle of Midway
• August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad begins
• November 1942: Operation Uranus (Soviet counter-attack)
• 31st January 1943: Germans surrender in USSR
• 6th June 1944: Operation Overlord (D-Day landings)
• 23rd August 1944: Paris liberated
• December 1944 - February 1945: Battle of the Bulge
• 30th April 1945: Hitler's suicide
• April + June 1945: Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• April 1945: Roosevelt dies, replaced by Harry Truman
• 8th May 1945: VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)
• 6th August 1945: atomic bomb on Hiroshima
• 8th August 1945: USSR declares war on Japan
• 9th August 1945: atomic bomb on Nagasaki
• 15th August 1945: VJ Day (Victory in Japan Day)