WWII Chronology Flashcards
Germany invades Poland
1939
USSR invades Poland
1939
Finnish-Soviet War starts
1939
Finnish-Soviet War ends
1940
Germany invades Norway and Denmark
1940
Germany launches Fall Gelb
1940
Churchill becomes PM of Britain
1940
Dunkirk evacuation starts
1940
France signs armistice with Germany
1940
Battle of Britain begins
1940
Hitler postpones Op SEALION indefinitely
1940
Tripartite Pact: Germany, Italy, Japan
1940
Italy invades Greece
1940
Rommel arrives in Libya
1941
British forces begin evacuating Greece
1941
German airborne forces land on Crete
1941
Germany invades USSR
1941
Peru invades Ecuador
1941
Japanese assets in US frozen
1941
Placentia Bay conference: Atlantic Charter
1941
German operation Typhoon at Moscow
1941
Red Army counteroffensive in Moscow
1941
Pearl Harbor
1941
Prince of Wales sunk off Malaysia, Japanese invades Phillippines
1941