World War 2 Dates Flashcards
1st september 1939
Germany invades Poland : use of Blitzkieg
3rd September 1939
UK and France declare war to Germany
17th September 1939
Russia invades Poland
3rd September 1939 - 10th may 1940
Phony war
30th November 1939
USSR invader Finland (Winter War)
9th April 1940
Scandinavian Campaing
Germany invades Denmark (6 hours invasion)
9th April 1940
Norway is invaded by Germany
9th June 1940
Norway has lost
10th may 1940
Germany attacks the West of Europe
22th June 1940
France signes the armistice
10th July - 31st October 1940
The Great Britain battle is lost by the nazis
13th September 1940
Italians invade Egypt through Libya
27th September 1940
Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
22nd June 1941
Operation Barbarossa, Germany breaks non agression pact with USSR
7th December 1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
June 1942
Japanese advance is stopped at the battle of Midway
23-24 October 1942
British troops defeat axis at El Alamein in Egypt, making them retreat to Tunisia
13 may 1943
Axis surrenders in Tunisia ending the North Africain campaign
10th July 1943
UK and US land in Sicily
9th September 1943
Allies land in Saleino
6th june 1944
London Normandy beaches
25 august 1944
Paris is liberated
December 1944
France is mostly liberated
7-8/9 may 1945
Germany signs unconditional surrender
6th august 1945
USA bombs Hiroshima with the atomic bomb
9th august 1945
USA bombs Nagasaki with the atomic bomb
2nd September 1945
Japan surrenders
