World War II: Dates to Remember

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World War IIDates to Remember
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1939

• Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II
  (Sept. 1)
• Britain and France Declare War on Germany. (Sept.
  3)

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1940

• Germany invaded Denmark and Norway (April 9).
• Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands (May
  10).
• Italy declared war on France and Great Britain
  (June 10).
• France signed an armistice with Germany (June
  22).
• Battle of Britain begins (July 10).

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1941

• Germany invaded Greece and Yugoslavia (April 6).
• Germany invaded the Soviet Union (June 22).
• German troops completed the blockade of
  Leningrad, which lasted until January 1944 (Sept.
  8)
• Japan bombed U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor,
  Hawaii (Dec. 7).
• The U.S., Great Britain, and Canada declare war
  on Japan (Dec. 8).

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1942

• Singapore fell to the Japanese (Feb. 15).
• U. S. and Philippine troops on Bataan Peninsula
  surrendered (April 9).
• U.S. Bombers hit Tokyo in the Doolittle raid
  (April 18)
• Allies checked a Japanese assault in the battle
  of the Coral Sea (May 4-8)
• The allies defeated Japan in the Battle of Midway
  (June 4-6)
• U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal (Aug. 7).
• Hitler ordered his forces to capture Stalingrad
  (Aug. 25).
• Britain attacked the Axis at El Alamein in Egypt
  (Oct. 23).
• Allied Troops landed in Algeria and Morocco (Nov.
  8).

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1943

• The last Germans surrendered at Stalingrad (Feb.
  2).
• Axis forces in northern Africa surrendered (May
  13.)
• Germany opened an assault near the Soviet city of
  Kursk. (July 4).
• Allied forces invaded Sicily (July 10).
• Italy secretly surrendered to the Allies (Sept.
  3).
• Allied troops landed at Salerno, Italy (Sept. 9).
• U.S. Forces invaded Tarawa (Nov. 20).

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1944

• Allied troops landed in Normandy in the D-Day
  invasion of northern France (June 6).
• U.S. defeat Japanese in the Battle of the
  Philippine Sea (June 19-20).
• Japans Prime Minister Tojo resigned (July 18).
• A plot to assassinate Hitler failed (July 20).
• The Allies began landing in the Philippines (Oct.
  20).
• The Allies defeat Japans navy in the Battle of
  Leyte Gulf in the Philippines (Oct. 23-26).
• The Germans struck back at U.S. troops in the
  Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16).

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1945

• U.S. Marines captured Iwo Jima (March 16).
• Hitler took his life in Berlin (April 30).
• Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies
  in Reims, France, ending World War II in Europe
  (May 7).
• Allied forces captured Okinawa (June 21).
• Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6).
• Soviet Union declared war on Japan (Aug. 8).
• Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Aug. 9).
• Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally (Aug.
  14).
• Japan surrenders formally (Sept. 2).