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World War II

World War II

1939 - 1945  (6 years)


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World War II Timeline

1939
1 Sep:  World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.UPI USHMM
1 Sep:  Germany, using the Blitzkreig, invades Poland.W I R E D VOX
3 Sep:  Britain and France declare war on Germany.USHMM FDRLib
1940
26 May:  British forces begin evacuation of France through Dunkirk.EB TheTelegraph
10 Jul:  The Battle of Britain begins.FWR
27 Sep:  Germany, Italy and Japan sign a treaty of mutual assistance - the Tripartite Pact.Avalon WHP
26 Oct:  The P-51 Mustang takes its maiden flight with test pilot Vance Breese.MM DW
1941
9 Jul:  The Enigma key is broken.MSN History.com
30 Oct:  FDR approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid for the USSR.USState JVL
7 Dec:  The forces of the Japanese Empire attack the U. S. Fleet while it lies at anchor at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.USNavy NPS
8 Dec:  The U. S. declares war on Japan.Avalon USNA
12 Dec:  Adolf Hitler personally orders the mass extermination of European Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery.AH.dk SIMag
1942
19 Feb:  President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 resulting in the forcible internment of people of Japanese ancestry. USNA OurDocs
18 Apr:  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle leads an air raid against Tokyo and other Japanese cities in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor.USNavy SIMag
9 Sep:  A submarine-based Japanese seaplane fire bombs the Oregon forest.SitOS USDA
21 Sep:  The B-29 Superfortress takes its maiden flight.AFHF MoF
1943
19 Apr:  Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin uprising against the Nazis.USHMM JVL
1944
6 Jun:  D-Day - allied forces begin the invasion of continental Europe.USArmy IWM
20 Jul:  Hitler survives an assassination attempt.UoC JVL
21 Oct:  The first individual kamikaze attack occurs when a Japanese plane attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island.RDunn NHSA
25 Oct:  Kamikaze are used en masse for the first time against Allied forces in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.NNAM AFMag
12 Nov:  Avro Lancasters of the British Royal Air Force sink the German battleship Tirpitz off Håkøya Island near Tromsø, Norway.KBismarck BCM
16 Dec:  The Battle of the Bulge, a surprise offensive by the German Army pushes Allied forces back through Belgium and Luxembourg.USArmy PBS
1945
1 May:  Adolf Hitler commits suicide.JVL tPCfM
5 May:  A Japanese balloon bomb kills 6.W I R E D OE
7 May:  Germany unconditionally surrenders, effectively ending World War II in Western Europe. Soviet surrender terms were signed the next day.DoD USHMM
8 May:  V-E Day is celebrated, Germany is defeated.DoD NWWIIM
16 Jul:  "Trinity", the first atomic bomb, explodes in the early morning hours near Alamogordo.B B C DoE
30 Jul:  The USS Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine, killing 883 sailors.USSIndianapolis USNavy
6 Aug:  The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.B B C CTBTO
9 Aug:  The atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.OSTI USNA
2 Sep:  World War II ends, Japan surrenders to the United States aboard the USS Missouri.CNN WAPO