Chronology of World War II events

In 1939

September 1 day: Germany first used lightning tactics to invade Poland. For the first time, the world knew what blitzkrieg was all about.

September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany.

September 17: The Soviet Union and Germany reached a tacit agreement to attack Poland from the east.

September 27th: Poland surrendered unconditionally to Germany.

1 1 30th: Soviet troops invade Finland and bomb the capital Helsinki.

In 1940

March 12: Finland and the Soviet Union sign a peace treaty in Moscow, ceding their territory to the Soviet Union.

April 9: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, Denmark refused to resist, and Norway rose to meet the enemy.

May 10: The Germans swept the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

British Prime Minister Chamberlain resigned and Churchill succeeded him.

May 14: Germans cross the French border. The Dutch army stopped resisting.

May 28th: Belgian King Leopold III orders the troops to surrender.

May 26: The situation turned sharply. About 340,000 troops from Britain and France and other allies began to retreat from France to Britain, which is the famous Dunkirk miracle.

June 10: Italy declares war on Britain and France.

June 14: Hitler's army enters undefended Paris.

June 16: French Prime Minister Lionel resigns and becomes a marshal.

June 22nd: France accepts all demands of Nazi conquerors and signs an armistice agreement with Germany in Copernicus.

July 10: Germany attacks Britain for the first time, and the Battle of Britain begins.

September 7: London was violently attacked by German planes for the first time.

September 27: Japan participates in the Berlin-Rome axis and concludes the three-nation covenant.

1February 15: British troops expel Italian troops from Egypt.

In 194 1 year

1 month 10: The United States Congress proposed a loan bill, which triggered a heated debate between isolationists and interventionists.

March 1 1 day: The US Congress passed the Lending Act, authorizing the President to provide comprehensive assistance to Britain and all countries against the Axis Powers.

March 27th: Yugoslav leaders staged a coup to prevent the country from joining the Axis Organization, and elected Prince Paul's regime and Peter Alekseyevich Romanov as heads of state.

March 28th: The British fleet defeated the Italian navy at Mataban and won the right to control the Mediterranean Sea.

March 30: Hitler's African troops launch a counterattack in North Africa.

April 6: Yugoslav troops surrender to Germany, but guerrilla warfare continues.

May 10: Rulf Hess, the second leader of Nazi Germany, secretly flew to Scotland to try to hold peace talks with Britain privately.

May 20: The Germans attack the British-controlled island of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean.

May 27th: The German heavy battleship Bismarck was sunk by the Royal Navy in the North Atlantic.

June 1 day: British troops abandon Crete.

June 14: President Roosevelt announced the freezing of Axis assets in the United States, and the State Council ordered the closure of all German consulates and propaganda agencies in the United States.

June 22nd: Germany declared war on the Soviet Union and attacked the Soviet Union along the 1600 km long front from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

July 26: President Roosevelt ordered the freezing of Japanese assets in the United States and the cessation of trade with Japan.

August 9-14: Churchill and Roosevelt met secretly on a ship, and then issued a joint statement saying that the common goal of the war was the Atlantic Charter.

September 8: The Germans began to besiege Leningrad for 900 days.

September 19: Nazi troops capture Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

1October 17: tojo hideki, leader of military extremists, is appointed as Japanese Prime Minister.

1October 3 1 day: the American destroyer Ruben Jenkins was sunk by a German submarine while escorting a weapons carrier. One hundred and fifteen people were killed.

1 1 month14th: Japanese special envoy Reich Saburo arrives in the United States from Tokyo to discuss US-Japan relations.

1 1 month 18: The British Eighth Army deployed in North Africa launched an attack in the Libyan desert.

1February 7th: At 7: 50am Hawaii time, Japan launched a surprise air raid, violently bombing American warships moored at Pearl Harbor, and severely damaging the American Pacific fleet. Japan declared war on Britain and America.

1February 8: The US Congress declares war on Japan. Churchill announced in the British Parliament that Britain would fight against Japan.

The Japanese invaded Thailand and Malaya.

The first Japanese army landed in the Philippines and carried out a large-scale air strike on the Philippine Islands. The local garrison is under the command of General MacArthur.

1February 10: The British warship Prince of Wales and the enemy ship were sunk by Japanese planes in Malaya.

1February 1 1 day: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The United States Congress declared the two countries at war with the United States.

1February 13: Hungary and Bulgaria declare war on the United States.

1February 25th: The Royal Army stationed in Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese army.

General willett and some American troops retreated to Coriquito Island.

In 1942

April 18: American military aircraft led by Colonel Doolittle bombed Tokyo.

May 8: Both the United States and Japan claimed a great victory in the Battle of Coral Sea. American aircraft carrier Lexington and Japan Airlines Xiangfeng.

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May 6: General violette surrenders to the Japanese in Coriquito.

June 6: A large number of Japanese planes attacked Midway Island and suffered heavy losses in the fierce battle between sea and air. Japan lost four aircraft carriers,/kloc-0 heavy cruisers and more than 300 aircraft, while the US military only lost/kloc-0 aircraft carriers,/kloc-0 heavy cruisers and more than 200 aircraft.

June 2 1 day: German general Rommel occupied the bloody sand in North Africa.

June 25th: General Eisenhower was appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the US Army in Europe.

July 1 day: Sevastopol, the Soviet Black Sea fortress, was besieged for 25 days and finally captured by the Germans.

August 7: US Marines land on Guadakana Island in Solomon Islands.

August 19: British and Canadian commandos attacked the French coastal city of Dieppe in the English Channel, causing heavy losses.

August 3 1 day: the British army led by Lieutenant General Montgomery defeated Rommel's African army in the battle of Alain Hallefa in Egypt.

1 1 May 5th: Rommel's troops retreated to Tunisia after being defeated in the Battle of Alahein.

1 1 8th: Allied forces landed in North Africa under the command of the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower.

1 1 month 1 1 day: Nazi troops attack French territory that has not yet been occupied.

1 1 month13rd: British troops repel the Germans and recapture the bloody sand.

1 1 22nd: Soviet troops led by General zhukov counterattack in the Battle of Stalingrad.

On 1943

/kloc-October 24th: President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill held a meeting with military leaders in Casa Blanga.

1 30th: The British Air Force carried out its first daytime air raid on Berlin.

February 2: Exhausted Germans surrender and the Battle of Stalingrad ends. German general paulus was captured two days before his surrender.

February 7: The Japanese army retreated from Guadalcanal Island, ending the stubborn resistance for six months. At this point, the battle of Guadalcanal ended, and at least 65,438+10,000 Japanese troops were killed.

March 2: A naval battle took place in the Bismarck Sea off New Guinea, and most Japanese ships were destroyed.

May 1 1 day: American troops landed in Artu, Aleutian Islands.

May 12: Axis forces stopped organized resistance in Tunisia, indicating that the Allied forces won an all-round victory in North Africa.

July 9: Allied forces attack Sicily under the command of Supreme Commander General Eisenhower.

July 25th: Italian Prime Minister Mussolini resigns and is succeeded by Marshal bardo Leo.

August 1 day: American liberators bombed the Romanian oil field in Proyes.

August 17: Allied forces completely occupy Sicily.

September 3: Allied forces cross the Messina Strait and attack southern Italy.

September 8: Italy announces its surrender to the Allies.

September 10: The Germans shelled and occupied Rome. The Italian navy was taken over by the allied forces.

1 October1day: the fifth army of the United States captured Naples.

1October 13: Italy declares war on Germany.

1October 19: Foreign ministers of major UN member countries hold a meeting in Moscow.

1 1 month 1 day: American troops landed in Bukenville, Solomon Islands.

1 1 6th: Soviet troops recapture Kiev from the Germans.

1 1 20th: American troops landed in Tarawa and makin, gilbert islands.

1 1 March 23rd: Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek held the first Cairo meeting in the Egyptian capital.

1 1 28th: The "Big Three" of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin held a meeting in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

1February 24th: Eisenhower was appointed as the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, responsible for planning and directing the attack on the European continent.

1February 26th: The German warship "Shannon Horst" was sunk by the British navy in North Point.

In 1944

1 22: British and American troops land behind German positions in An Zhi.

February 2: Soviet troops enter Estonia and March on Latvia.

U.S. Marines captured Lonham Island in Marshall Islands, and five days later, American troops occupied Guagarin Island.

February 2 1 day: tojo hideki was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army and became a military dictator.

March 20th: In order to reduce the threat to the Balkans, the Nazis invaded Hungary.

April 5: General Charles de Gaulle becomes the leader of the French provisional government in London.

April 22nd: General MacArthur leads American troops to land in new guinea, the Netherlands.

May 9: Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol naval base.

May 18: Nazi troops retreat from Casino Monastery, ending the three-month siege.

May 23: Allied forces attack from the beach position of Anziqiao, Italy.

May 25th: The Germans abandoned the whole Italian coast from Anziling to Drasina.

June 4: British and American troops capture Rome that was not destroyed by the Germans.

June 6th: European Landing Day. Allied forces headed by Eisenhower landed in Normandy and launched a long-planned attack on Hitler's European fortress.

June 13: Germans attack Britain with V- 1 rockets for the first time.

June 14: General Charles de Gaulle visits Normandy. This is his first visit to France in four years.

June 15: The United States sends the B-29 Super robotech bomber to bomb the Japanese for the first time.

June 19: During the naval battle in the Philippines, American carrier aircraft attacked the Japanese fleet between Mariana Islands and Luzon Island in the Philippines.

June 27th: The Germans in Cherbourg, France stop resisting.

July 9: After 25 days of fierce fighting, American troops captured Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

July 1 1 day: Soviet Red Army breaks through the border between Latvia and Lithuania.

July 18: The British Second Army breaks through the German line in Kony, France.

July 20th: An explosion occurred at Hitler's East Prussia headquarters in Rastonburg. Hitler was only slightly injured and the assassination plan failed.

July 2 1 day: US Marines and infantry set up beachheads in Guam.

July 26th: American troops break through the German line west of Saint Laurent, France.

August 10: After three weeks of hard struggle, the US military finally occupied Guam.

August 1 1 day: Allied forces approach Florence, the Germans give up their positions, and the city is safe.

August 15: Allied forces launch an attack between Cannes and Toulon in southern France.

August 2 1 day: American armored columns arrive in the Seine region in the south and north of Paris.

August 23: Romania surrenders to the Soviet Union and joins the allied camp.

August 25th: Paris was liberated, and the German commander surrendered to General Le Clark.

August 27th: General Eisenhower entered Paris accompanied by Lieutenant General Budret.

September 3rd: The British Second Army led by Lieutenant General Dempsey liberated Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

September 4: Finland and the Soviet Union declare an armistice.

September 5: The Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria.

September 8: Germany launches the first V-2 rockets to attack the British capital London.

September 9: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union sign a bilateral armistice agreement.

September 10: The ninth meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec during World War II is also the second meeting between the two giants in this city.

September 17: Allied airlift troops go deep into the Netherlands.

September 24: Soviet troops set off from Poland and entered the Czech Republic for 32 kilometers.

10.3: The Warsaw Resistance Army under the command of General Pocomo Laski finally surrendered to the German army after two months of hard fighting.

120 October: American troops landed in Wright Bay in the central Philippines.

123 October: In the Battle of Leyte Bay, the Japanese fleet suffered heavy losses and the American aircraft carrier Princeton was sunk.

1 1 June 6: Stalin announced the abolition of the neutrality treaty signed with Japan.

1 1 July 7: Roosevelt was elected president of the United States for four consecutive times.

1 1 month12nd: the german battleship tipitz was sunk by the royal air force in Troussel.

1 1 24th: American B-29 bombers stationed in Saipan bombed Tokyo.

1February 16: The Germans launched a large-scale counterattack in Ardennes, which was a "prominent battle".

1February 26th: In Bastoni, the fortress of the outstanding war, the American troops under the command of Major General mcauliffe were replaced by the allied vanguard forces advancing from the south.

In 1945

1 9: General MacArthur's troops landed in Lin Jiayan Bay, about 0/60 km north of Manila in Luzon Island.

1 month 17: The Soviet Union sends troops to capture Warsaw, the capital of Poland.

1 20: Hungarian interim government signs armistice agreement with its allies.

1 27: Lithuania's Maimel was liberated, and the Soviet Union completely controlled the country.

1 March 3 1 day: Churchill and Roosevelt meet in British malta island, which is the prelude to the Jardat conference.

February 3: American troops enter Manila.

February 4th: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin held a Yalta meeting to plan how to control Germany and other liberated Eastern European countries.

February 19: US Marines land on Huang Liu Island, which is 200 miles from Tokyo/Kloc-0.

February 23: US Marines occupy Mount Cybertron on Huang Liu Island.

March 4th: Finland officially declared war on Germany. The actual date of declaration of war dates back to1September 94415th.

March 7: The First American Army crosses the ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine at Rimajian. Cologne fell into allied hands.

March 9: An unprecedented B-29 bomber bombed Tokyo, leveling 42 square kilometers of the city.

March 26th: US Marines firmly hold Huang Liu Island.

April 1 day: US forces attack Okinawa, more than 540 kilometers south of Tokyo.

April 12: Roosevelt dies and Truman succeeds as president of the United States.

April 13: Vienna, the capital of Austria, falls into the hands of the Soviet Union.

April 16: Soviet troops advanced along the 72-kilometer-long front and made a final blow to Berlin.

April 25th: American and Soviet troops meet at Tugao on the Elbe River to celebrate this historic moment.

April 28th: Mussolini, his mistress and sixteen cronies who believe in fascism are in Tsigra, a small Italian village on Lake Como.

April 30: Hitler committed suicide in the basement of the Chancellor's Office in Berlin.

The Soviet flag is flying on the top of the German Reichstag.

The US military released 33,000 people from Dachau concentration camp.

May 2: Berlin falls into the hands of the Soviet Union;

The remnants of the Germans in northern Italy surrendered.

May 3: British forces recapture Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

May 7: At a ceremony held in Rios, France, Germany formally and unconditionally surrendered to the Allies and the Soviet Union.

June 5: America, Britain, the Soviet Union and France all declared Germany defeated. The top four took over Germany and divided the country into four occupied areas.

June 2 1 day: The Okinawa campaign ended and the US military won an all-round victory.

June 26th: Representatives of 50 countries signed the Charter of World Security in San Francisco and established the United Nations.

July 4th: General MacArthur announces the national recovery of the Philippines.

July 5: Churchill lost in the British general election and the Labour Party led by Attlee came to power.

July 16: The first atomic bomb was successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

July 17: Potsdam Conference was held in Germany, and Truman, Churchill (later replaced by Attlee) and Stalin attended the meeting.

August 2: The Potsdam Declaration was published, and the peace clause made the Germans feel difficult in the future.

August 6: The first American atomic bomb used in actual combat fell on Hiroshima, almost destroying the whole city.

August 8: The Soviet Union declared war on Japan and marched into the three northeastern provinces.

August 9: The United States drops another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

August 14: Japan announces its unconditional surrender, and Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's defeat to the whole country.

September 3: The Japanese surrender ceremony was held on the USS Missouri moored off the coast of Tokyo. Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru and some military leaders signed a surrender letter.