wwii key battles

30th January 1933

Hitler becomes chancellor

1st Sep 1939

Germany invades Poland

3rd Sep 1939

Britain + France declare war

3rd Sep 1939 – 10th May 1940

Phony War

10th May – 25th June 1940

Fall of France (Paris invasion), and Battle of Britain

22nd June 1941

Operation Barbarossa (surprise Soviet Union invasion)

11th June – 27th Nov 1941

Siege of Tobruk

7th Dec 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

15th Feb 1942

Fall of Singapore (Japanese invasion)

19th Feb 1942

Darwin bombing

May – June 1942

Battle of Coral Sea (large navy/air carrier war)

4–7th June 1942

Battle of Midway (Japan navy defeated)

23rd July – 16th November 1942

Kokoda Campaign

6 June 1944

D-Day / Normandy invasion

25th Aug 1944

Paris is liberated

8th May 1945

Germany officially surrenders

6th Aug 1945

Hiroshima atomic bombing

9th Aug 1945

Nagasaki atomic bombing

2nd Sep 1945

Japan officially surrenders (USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay)

1933 – 1945

Holocaust (concentration camps)

26th May – 4th June 1940

Dunkirk retreat

16th April – 2nd May 1945

Battle of Berlin (Germany collapse: Soviets + USA)

10th July – 31st October 1940

Battle of Britain (Luftwaffe)

1941 – 1945

Final Solution (mass murder)