JC Pagsanhan's Timeline
Theme: World War 2 Chronology
| Date | Title | Reason for Choosing Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1939, September 1 | The Invasion of Poland begins at 4:30 a.m. with the German Luftwaffe attacking several targets in Poland. | |
| 1939, September 1 | The United Kingdom and France demand Germany's immediate withdrawal. | |
| 1939, September 10 | Canada declares war on Germany. | |
| 1939, September 28 | The Polish capital Warsaw surrender to the Germans. | |
| 1939, November 8 | Germans appoint Hans Frank Governor General of Poland and begin accelerating the anti-Jewish programs there. | |
| 1939, December 18 | The first Canadian troops arrive in Europe. | |
| 1939, December 28 | Meat rationing program begins in Britain. | |
| 1940, January 8 | Bacon, butter, and sugar rationing begins in Britain. | |
| 1940, January 11 | Meat rationing begins in France. | |
| 1940, March 12 | Finland signs a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. | |
| 1940, March 18 | Mussolini agrees with Hitler that Italy will enter the war "at an opportune moment". | |
| 1940, March 28 | Britain and France make a formal agreement that neither country will seek a separate peace with Germany. | |
| 1940, April 3 | Churchill is appointed chairman of the Ministerial Defense Committee following the resignation of Lord Chatfield. | |
| 1940, April 9 | Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Denmark surrenders. | |
| 1940, May 10 | Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands | |
| 1940, May 10 | Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom upon the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. | |
| 1940, May 28 | Belgium surrenders; Germans evacuate Narvik | |
| 1940, June 10 | Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, Norway surrenders. | |
| 1940, June 25 | France officially surrenders to Germany at 0,35. | |
| 1940, June 30 | Germany invades the Channel Islands. | |
| 1940, July 1 | Channel Islands occupied by German forces; French government moves to Vichy. | |
| 1940, July 10 | Battle of Britain begins. | |
| 1940, August 25 | First British air raid on Berlin. | |
| 1940, September 13 | Italy invades Egypt. | |
| 1940, October 16 | Draft registration begins in the United States. | |
| 1941, April 13 | Japan and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact. | |
| 1941, June 22 | Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. | |
| 1941, June 23 | Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the Soviet Union. | |
| 1941, June 26 | Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. | |
| 1941, June 28 | Albania declares war on the Soviet Union. | |
| 1941, July 8 | Yugoslavia dissolved by the Axis. | |
| 1941, July 12 | Britain and Soviet Union sign mutual defence agreement, promising not to sign any form of separate peace agreement with Germany. | |
| 1941, August 6 | American and British governments warn Japan not to invade Thailand. | |
| 1941, August 9 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result. | |
| 1941, August 18 | Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to concentration camps, where they continued in their trad | |
| 1941, September 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Navy to shoot on sight if any ship or convoy is threatened. | |
| 1941, October 2 | Operation Typhoon - Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. | |
| 1941, October 17 | The destroyer USS Kearney is torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing eleven sailors - the first American military casualties of the war. | |
| 1941, November 17 | Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable was ignored). | |
| 1941, November 26 | Japanese attack fleet of 33 warships and auxiliary craft, including six aircraft carriers, sailed from northern Japan for the Hawaiian Islands; The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States. | |
| 1941, November 27 | Battle of Moscow - Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets. | |
| 1941, December 5 | The United Kingdom declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. | |
| 1941, December 7 | Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor and declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom. Air attacks also on Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, the Philippines, and Shanghai. | |
| 1941, December 8 | Japan invades Malaya; the United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Japan; The Netherlands declares war on Japan, | |
| 1941, December 9 | China officially declares war on Japan [1] | |
| 1941, December 11 | Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, United States reciprocates and declares war on Germany and Italy; US forces repel a Japanese landing attempt at Wake Island. | |
| 1941, December 12 | The United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Romania and Bulgaria after they had declared war on both the United States and the United Kingdom; India declares war on Japan; United States seizes French ship Normandie. | |
| 1941, December 13 | Hungary declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom, the United States and the United Kingdom reciprocate and declare war on Hungary. | |
| 1941, December 19 | Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army | |
| 1942, February 23 | Japanese submarine I-17 fires sixteen high-explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage. | |
| 1942, April 3 | Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death "March" began. | |
| 1942, June 1 | Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan. | |
| 1942, June 4 | The Battle of Midway; Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid) | |
| 1942, June 12 | Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. | |
| 1942, June 18 | Manhattan Project started. | |
| 1942, July 9 | Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. | |
| 1942, September 1 | Manhattan Engineering District is formally created, full-effort production of the atomic bomb is begun. | |
| 1942, September 1 | Stalingrad is now completely encircled by German forces. | |
| 1942, November 19 | Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. | |
| 1943, January 18 | Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad; The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up for the first time, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. | |
| 1943, January 27 | 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target). | |
| 1943, February 11 | General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe. | |
| 1943, July 19 | Rome is bombed by the Allies for the first time in the war. | |
| 1943, July 28 | Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. | |
| 1943, September 3 | Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under Bernard L. Montgomery, for the first time in the war. | |
| 1943, September 8 | United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943; Julius Fucik is executed by Nazis. | |
| 1943, November 15 | Allied Expeditionary Force for the invasion of Europe is officially formed; German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." | |
| 1943, November 22 | US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. | |
| 1943, December 24 | US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. | |
| 1944, June 5 | Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of an Axis nation to fall; More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. | |
| 1944, June 6 | Battle of Normandy begins - Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibio | |
| 1944, July 19 | The entire Government of Japan resigns, Emperor Hirohito asks General Kuniaka Koiso to form a new government. | |
| 1944, August 15 | Operation Dragoon begins with the amphibious Allied landings in southern France. | |
| 1944, August 19 | French Resistance begins uprising in Paris. | |
| 1944, August 25 | Paris is liberated; De Gaulle and Free French parade triumphantly down the Champs-Élysées. | |
| 1944, September 2 | Allied troops enter Belgium. |
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