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Date
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The German Army
invades Czechoslovakia.
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15th March, 1939
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Edouard Daladier
announces that France
intends to increase defence spending.
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17th March, 1939
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Adolf Hitler
demands the free city of Danzig in Poland.
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21st March, 1939
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Britain and France pledge to
support Poland.
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29th March, 1939
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Italy invades
and occupies Albania.
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7th April, 1939
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Britain and France pledge to
support Romania
and Greece.
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13th April, 1939
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Soviet
Union proposes a triple alliance with Britain and France.
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18th April, 1939
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Sweden, Norway and Finland
reject Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.
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17th May, 1939
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Winston
Churchill urges the government to form a military alliance with the Soviet Union.
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9th July, 1939
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Joseph Stalin
and Adolf
Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
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23rd August, 1939.
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Britain and Poland sign a
treaty of mutal assistance.
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25th August, 1939.
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The German Army
invades Poland and annexes the
free city of Danzig.
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1st September, 1939
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Britain and France declare
war on Nazi
Germany.
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3rd September, 1939
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Parliament passes the National
Services (Armed Forces) Act.
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3rd September, 1939
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Neville Chamberlain appoints
Winston
Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.
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3rd September, 1939
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The German Army
reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish border with the Soviet Union.
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17th September, 1939
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The Red Army invades
Poland.
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17th September, 1939
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Reinhard Heydrich
announces that all Jews in Poland are to
be imprisoned in Ghettos.
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21st September, 1939
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The Polish Army surrenders in Warsaw.
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27th September, 1939
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
announces that the USA
will remain neutral in the European war.
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3rd October, 1939
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The British battleship Royal Oak
is sunk by U-boat captained by Gunther Prien.
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14th October, 1939
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The Schutz Staffeinel
(SS) establish the first Jewish Ghetto
in Piotrkow.
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28th October, 1939
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Germany
formally annexes western Poland into
the German Reich.
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1st November, 1939
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Joseph Stalin
formally annexes eastern Poland into
the Soviet Union.
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2nd November, 1939
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The Red Army invades
Finland.
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30th November, 1939
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The Soviet Union is
expelled from the League of Nations.
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14th December, 1939
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The Red Army attacks
the Mannerheim Line in Finland.
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11th February, 1940
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Finland
signs a peace treaty with the Soviet Union.
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12th March, 1940
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Paul Reynaud
replaces Edouard Daladier as prime
minister of France.
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20th March, 1940
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Britain and France agree not
to sign a separate peace with Nazi Germany.
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28th March, 1940
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Neville Chamberlain appoints
Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production.
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3rd April, 1940
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Soldiers in the British Army land at
Namsos in Norway.
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8th April, 1940
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The German Army
invades Denmark and Norway.
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9th April, 1940
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Adolf Hitler
launches his Western
Offensive and invades France.
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10th May, 1940
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Neville Chamberlain resigns
as prime minister and is replaced by Winston
Churchill.
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10th May, 1940
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Anthony Eden announces
the formation of the Home Guard.
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14th May, 1940
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Netherlands
surrenders and Queen
Wilhelmina flees to England.
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14th May, 1940
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Parliament grants Winston
Churchill and his government wide emergency powers.
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22nd May, 1940
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General Gerd von
Rundstedt and the German Army
pierce the French defences at Sedan.
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23rd May, 1940
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Adolf Hitler
orders the German forces in France and Belgium to
halt their advance.
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23rd May, 1940
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Adolf Hitler
orders the German forces in resume their advance into France and Belgium.
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25th May, 1940
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Evacuation from Dunkirk begins.
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27th May, 1940
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Belgium surrender to the German Army
and Leopold
III is arrested.
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28th May, 1940
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Winston
Churchill appoints Stafford Cripps as British ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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30th May, 1940
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The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian
forces evacuated from Dunkirk.
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4th June, 1940
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J. B. Priestley
gives first BBC radio broadcast.
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5th June, 1940
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Benito Mussolini declares war on the Allies.
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10th June, 1940
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Gotthard Heinrici and the
12th Corps break through the Maginot Line.
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14th June, 1940
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The German Army
enters Paris.
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14th June, 1940
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The USA rejects
France's renewed appeal for help against the German Army.
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15th June, 1940
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Henri-Philippe Petain begins
to negotiate an armistice with Germany.
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17th June, 1940
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France signs
armistice with Nazi Germany
and is divided into two zones.
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22nd June, 1940
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Winston
Churchill recognizes Charles De Gaulle as
leader of the Free French.
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28th June, 1940
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The Royal Navy destroys most of the French Navy
at Mers-el-Kébir.
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3rd July, 1940
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Franklin D. Roosevelt bans the
shipment of strategic materials to Japan.
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5th July, 1940
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Ark Royal sinks Dunkerqueat at Mers-el-Kébir.
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6th July, 1940
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The Luftwaffe launch the start of the Battle of Britain.
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10th July, 1940
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Henri-Philippe Petain becomes president of Vichy France.
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11th July, 1940
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Winston
Churchill invites Hugh Dalton to
establish the Special
Operations Executive.
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16th July, 1940
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The Italian Army advances into
British Somaliland.
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3rd August, 1940
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The Luftwaffe began attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft,
airfields and installations.
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13th August, 1940
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The Luftwaffe carry out a all-night bombing raid on London and
begins the Blitz.
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23rd August, 1940
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The Royal Air Force
bombs Berlin.
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25th August, 1940
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Rodolfo Graziani and Italian Army make a rapid advance
into Egypt.
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13th September, 1940
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City of Bernares sunk by a
German torpedo killing 73 children on the way to Canada.
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17th September, 1940
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Winston
Churchill decides to abandon the attempt to capture the port of Dakar.
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25th September, 1940
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Vidkun Quisling
installed by the Germans as prime minister of Norway.
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25th September, 1940
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Yosuke Matsuoka
of Japan signs
the Tripartite
Pact with Nazi Germany
and Italy.
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27th September, 1940
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Winston
Churchill appoints Kingsley Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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3rd October, 1940
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Winston
Churchill appoints Ernest Bevin as Minister of
Labour.
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3rd October, 1940
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Adolf Hitler
postpones Operation
Sealion.
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12th October, 1940
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Adolf Hitler meets Francisco Franco
an attempt to persuade Spain to join
the war.
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23rd October, 1940
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The Mustang P-51B
makes its first flight.
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26th October, 1940
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The Italian Army invades Greece.
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28th October, 1940
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The Royal Navy attacks the Italian Navy
at Taranto.
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11th November, 1940
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The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing
380 people and injuring 865.
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14th November, 1940
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The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany.
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16th November, 1940
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Airbourbe radar
successfully used by the Royal Air Force for the first time.
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18th November, 1940
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British Army captures Tobruk.
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22nd January, 1941
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Bulgaria
signs the Tripartite Pact and joins forces with Germany, Italy and Japan.
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1st March, 1941
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The British Army invades
Italian-controlled Ethiopia.
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7th March, 1941
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US Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act.
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11th March, 1941
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General Erwin Rommel
mounts his first attack in the Desert War.
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24th March, 1941
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General Andrew
Cunningham, commander of allied forces in East Africa, enters Addis
Ababa..
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6th April, 1941
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Italian Army
in Ethiopia
surrenders to Allied forces.
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6th April, 1941
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Germany, Italy and Bulgaria
invade Yugoslavia.
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10th April, 1941
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General Paul von Kleist
and the 1st Panzer Group enter Belgrade.
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12th April, 1941
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Yosuke Matsuoka
of Japan signs
non-aggression pact with Soviet Union.
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14th April, 1941
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Yugoslavia
surrenders to the German Army.
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17th April, 1941
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Marmaduke Pattle,
RAF's leading war ace, killed while fighting in Greece.
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20th April, 1941
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Greece
surrenders to the German Army.
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21st April, 1941
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General Erwin Rommel
and his army enter Egypt.
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25th April, 1941
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The Luftwaffe destroy the House of Commons
in Westminster.
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10th May, 1941
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Rudolf Hess
flies to Scotland
and is arrested by the authorities.
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10th May, 1941
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Frank Whittle's jet-propelled Gloster E28
takes its first flight.
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15th May, 1941
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The Bismarck
sinks the British battlecruiser Hood.
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24th May, 1941
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The Bismarck
attacked and sunk by the Royal Navy.
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27th May, 1941
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The Bismarck
is sunk by the British
Navy.
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26th May 1941
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The British government introduces plans to ration
clothes and furniture.
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1st June, 1941
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Syria invaded
by British
Army and Free French
forces.
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8th June, 1941
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Operation Punishment comes to
and end.
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22nd June, 1941
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Adolf Hitler
launches Operation
Barbarossa.
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22nd June, 1941
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Finland
declares war on the Soviet Union.
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25th June, 1941
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Hungary declares war on the
Soviet Union.
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27th June, 1941
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Armistice signed in Syria.
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12th July, 1941
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Soviet
Union and Britain
sign an agreement of mutual aid.
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12th July, 1941
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Richard Acland launches the Common Wealth
Party.
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26th July, 1941
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The German Army
advances on Leningrad.
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12th August, 1941
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Military forces from Soviet Union and
Britain invade Iran.
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25th August, 1941
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The German Army
captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in the Soviet Union.
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20th September, 1941
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The German Army
advances on Moscow.
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6th October, 1941
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The Royal Air Force
bombs the German city of Nuremberg.
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13th October, 1941
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General Hideki Tojo
becomes prime minister of Japan.
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16th October, 1941
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Masha Bruskina, first Soviet
partisan to be executed in public by the German Army.
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26th October, 1941
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The British aircraft carrier, Ark Royal
is sunk off Gibraltar.
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13th November, 1941
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Emperor
Hirohito officially approves the attack on the United States.
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1st December, 1941
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Britain
declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
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5th December, 1941
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Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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7th December, 1941
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Japanese troops invade Malaya, Thailand
and the Philippines.
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8th December, 1941
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Japanese forces sink the Prince of
Wales and Repulse
off the east coast of Malaya.
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10th December, 1941
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Japanese troops invade Burma.
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11th December, 1941
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America First Committee is
dissolved.
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11th December, 1941
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The National
Service Act, that conscripted unmarried women, was passed by
Parliament.
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18th December, 1941
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Adolf Hitler
sacks Heinrich von Brauchitsch as commander in chief of the German Army.
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19th December, 1941
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Japanese Army
capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
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22nd December, 1941
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Hong Kong
surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison
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25th December, 1941
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Japanese Army
capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Malaya.
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11th January, 1942
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Reinhard Heydrich organizes the Wannsee
Conference.
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20th January, 1942
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General Arthur Percival
orders retreat to Singapore.
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25th January, 1942
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USA government announces the establishment of relocation
camps for Japanese
Americans.
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29th January, 1942
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Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore
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8th February, 1942
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The Scharnhorst
and the Prinz
Eugen start their successfully break out of
Brest.
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12th February, 1942
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General Arthur Percival
surrenders Singapore to Japanese.
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15th February, 1942
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Japanese Air Force bomb
Darwin in Australia.
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19th February, 1942
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General Douglas
MacArthur and the United States forces leave the Philippines
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22nd February, 1942
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The Royal Air Force bomb Lubeck in Germany.
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23rd March, 1942
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Allied raid on St Nazaire.
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27th March, 1942
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Hermann Balck
and the 3rd Panzer Division captures Salonika.
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9th April, 1942
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George VI awards
the George Cross to the people of Malta.
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9th April, 1942
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The United States Air
Force bomb Tokyo.
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18th April, 1942
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Pierre Laval becomes minister of
foreign affairs in Vichy France.
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18th April, 1942
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The Luftwaffe start bombing Exeter, Bath and other
historic cities in Britain.
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23rd April, 1942
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Japanese Army
capture Mandalay in Burma.
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1st May 1942
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Start of the battle of Coral Sea.
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6th May, 1942
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Richard Heydrich is shot
in Prague by Czech resistance fighters.
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27th May, 1942
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Arthur Harris
orders the first 1000 bomber attack on Germany at Cologne.
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30th May, 1942
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Start of the battle of Midway.
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3rd June, 1942
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The Gestapo
destroy the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia.
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10th June, 1942
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Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie
at Gazala.
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14th June, 1942
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Erwin Rommel and the German Army
captures Tobruk.
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21st June, 1942
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General Erich von
Manstein captures Sevastopol
on the Black Sea.
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2nd July, 1942
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Donald Bennett
appointed as commander of the Pathfinder
Force.
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5th July, 1942
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Japanese Army
land on Guadalcanal.
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7th July, 1942
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The Messerschmitt Me 262
makes its first test flight.
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18th July, 1942
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The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany.
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26th July, 1942
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Alexander Vandegrift and the US Marines
land on Guadalcanal.
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7th August, 1942
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The US Marines
use the Navajo
Code for the first time.
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7th August, 1942
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General Bernard
Montgomery is appointed
commander of the British 8th Army.
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13th August, 1942
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The Flying Fortress begins
making first daylight bombing raids on Europe.
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17th August, 1942
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5,000 Canadian and 1,000 British troops raid the port of
Dieppe in France.
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19th August, 1942
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The German Army
enters Stalingrad.
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24th August, 1942
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Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army
at Alam el
Halfa.
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30th August, 1942
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The B-29 Stratafortress makes its
first flight.
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21st September, 1942
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General Bernard
Montgomery orders
counter-attack at El Alamein.
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23rd October, 1942
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Thomas Kinkaid faces Nobutake Kondo
at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
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26th October, 1942
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Hornet
is sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
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27th October, 1942
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The German Army
defeated at El
Alamein.
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4th November, 1942
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General Dwight D.
Eisenhower,leads the invasion of Tunisia.
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8th November, 1942
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Admiral Jean Darlan surrenders French North Africa to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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11th November, 1942
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Adolf Hitler
orders the occupation of Vichy France.
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11th November, 1942
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The British Army recaptures Tobruk.
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12th November, 1942
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Admiral William Halsey
leads successful naval campain at Guadalcana.
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13th November, 1942
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Erich von Manstein and the
4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to relieve the 6th Army.
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12th December, 1942
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Admiral Jean Darlan assassinated by
member of French
Resistance in Algiers.
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24th December, 1942
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The Luftwaffe renews its air attacks on London.
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18th January, 1943
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The Allies capture Tripoli.
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23rd January, 1943
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British and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock
bombing of Nazi
Germany.
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25th February, 1943
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Jurgen von Arnium
replaces Erwin Rommel as
commander of the Deutsches Afrika
Korps.
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9th March, 1943
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Germany
announces the discovery of 4,443 Polish officers at Katyn in the Soviet Union.
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13th April, 1943
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Yitzhak Zuckerman leads
the Warsaw
Uprising.
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19th April, 1943
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The Allies capture Tunis.
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7th May, 1943
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Over 130,000 members of the German Army
surrender in Tunisia.
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13th May, 1943
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Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the Dambusters Raid.
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16th May, 1943
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Jean Moulin holds the first
meeting of the Conseil
National de la Resistance in Paris.
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27th May, 1943
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Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance,
murdered by the Gestapo.
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8th July, 1943
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A German aircraft
bombs Whitehall
Cinema in East Grinstead and kills 235 people.
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9th July, 1943
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Allied troops land on German-occupied Sicily.
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10th July, 1943
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Air Marshall Arthur Harris
orders further bombing of Hamburg.
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24th July, 1943
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Victor Emmanuel III
dismisses Benito
Mussolini from office in Italy.
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25th July, 1943
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The Red Army
recaptures the city of Kharkov.
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23rd August, 1943
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Bernard Montgomery and the
8th Army land at Reggio in Italy.
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3rd September, 1943
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The Tirpitz and Scharnhorst
bombard the Spitzbergen weather station.
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7th September, 1943
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Benito
Mussolini is rescued from
prison by a team led by Otto Skorzeny.
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12th September, 1943
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Benito
Mussolini establishes a new
fascist government at Salo on Lake Garda, Italy.
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15th September, 1943
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Italy's new prime minister, Pietro Badoglio,
signs armistice with the Allies.
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23rd September, 1943
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The Red Army
recaptures the city of Smolensk.
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25th September, 1943
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General Mark Clark and 5th Army capture Naples.
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13th October, 1943
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Italy's prime minister, Pietro Badoglio,
declares war on Germany.
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13th October, 1943
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Evans Carlson and the
2nd Raider Battalion land in Guadalcana.
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4th November, 1943
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The Red Army
recaptures the city of Kiev.
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6th November, 1943
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The intensive bombing of Berlin by the
RAF begins.
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18th November, 1943
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Allied invasion of the Gilbert
Islands.
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20th November, 1943
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Eduard Benes
and Joseph
Stalin sign a Soviet-Czech peace treaty in Moscow.
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12th December, 1943
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The Scharnhorst
is sunk by the Duke of
York off the coast of Norway.
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26th December, 1943
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Winston
Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin
meet at Tehran
in Iran.
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28th December, 1943
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General John Lucas
and US 5th Army land at Anzio.
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22nd January, 1944
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Allied invasion of the Marshall
Islands.
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31st January, 1944
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Allied forces bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
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15th February, 1944
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The Luftwaffe
make their heaviest raids on London since
May 1941.
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19th February, 1944
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Merrill's Marauders
begin their first campaign in Burma.
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24th February, 1944
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Orde Wingate
launches Operation Thursday in Burma.
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5th March, 1944
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United States Air Force begin
daylight air attacks on Berlin.
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6th March, 1944
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Orde Wingate
killed in plane crash in Burma.
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14th March, 1944
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Pierre Brossolette, one of
the leaders of the French
Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo.
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22nd March, 1944
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Paul von Kleist
and Erich von Manstein recalled
to Germany
and sacked by Adolf
Hitler.
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29th March, 1944
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Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid.
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30th March, 1944
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The German Army
evacuates Sevastopol.
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9th May, 1944
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Allied troops take Monte Cassino.
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18th May, 1944
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General Mark Clark
and Allied troops capture Rome.
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4th June, 1944
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Second Front opened with Allied
landings in Normandy.
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6th June, 1944
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Pietro Badoglio
resigns and Invanoe Bonomi
forms new government in Italy.
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9th June, 1944
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The SS carry out a
revenge attack on the Maquis at Oradour-sur-Glane.
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10th June, 1944
|
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First V1 Flying bomb lands on
Britain.
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13th June, 1944
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The Red Army
recaptures the city of Minsk.
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3rd July, 1944
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Allied troops capture Caen in Normandy.
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9th July, 1944
|
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Hideki Tojo
resigns as prime minister of Japan.
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18th July, 1944
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July Plot
against Adolf
Hitler fails.
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20th July, 1944
|
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Polish resistance forces in Warsaw rebel
against German occupation.
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1st August, 1944
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V1 Flying bomb brought
down by a Gloster
Meteor, Britain's first jet-fighter.
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4th August, 1944
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Allied troops land on the French coast between the ports
of Toulon and Cannes.
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14th August, 1944
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Ernst Thaelmann
is executed at Buchenwald.
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18th August, 1944
|
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United States Army
enters Paris.
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24th August, 1944
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Romania
declares war on Germany.
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25th August, 1944
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British troops enter Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
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4th September, 1944
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First V2 Rocket lands on Britain.
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8th September, 1944
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The French provisional government abolishes the Vichy
legislature.
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10th September, 1944
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Allied troops enter Nazi Germany.
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11th September, 1944
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Winston
Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Quebec to discuss post-war Germany.
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11th September, 1944
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Romania
signs an armistice with the United States, Britain and
the Soviet Union.
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12th September, 1944
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Start of Operation
Market Garden.
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17th September, 1944
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Finland
signs an armistice with the Soviet Union.
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19th September, 1944
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Allied troops forced to withdraw from Arnhem.
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25th September, 1944
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Adolf Hitler
calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60 in Germany for
army service.
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25th September, 1944
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Canadian troops liberate the French port of
Calais.
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28th September, 1944
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The German Army
crushes Warsaw Uprising.
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2nd October, 1944
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The British Army land in
German-occupied Greece.
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4th October, 1944
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The Red Army enters Czechoslovakia.
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6th October, 1944
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Winston
Churchill, Joseph
Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Moscow.
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9th October, 1944
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Erwin Rommel is forced to commit
suicide by the Nazi government.
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14th October, 1944
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General Douglas
MacArthur returns to the Philippines.
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20th October, 1944
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General Walter Krueger
and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte.
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22nd October, 1944
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf
begins.
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24th October, 1944
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Bulgaria signs an armistice
with the Allies.
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28th October, 1944
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The Tirpitz is sunk after being
hit by Tallboy
bombs.
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12th November, 1944
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The Red Army
establish new government in Hungary.
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21st December, 1944
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The British 14th Army begin a new offensive in Burma.
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3rd January, 1945
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US forces make landings on the island of Luzon.
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9th January, 1945
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The Red Army
liberate Warsaw.
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17th January, 1945
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The Red Army capture
Budapest.
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18th January, 1945
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Start of Operation Ten-Go.
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2nd February, 1945
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Winston
Churchill, Joseph
Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at the Yalta Conference.
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4th February, 1945
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Air Marshall Arthur Harris
orders the bombing of Dresden.
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13th February, 1945
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United States Army land on Iwo Jima.
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19th February, 1945
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United States Army capture
Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
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28th February, 1945
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United States Army
Air Force creates firestorm
in Tokyo.
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9th March, 1945
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British and Indian troops capture Mandalay in Burma.
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20th March, 1945
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United States Army cross
the River Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim.
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22nd March, 1945
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Last V2 Rocket lands on Britain.
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27th March, 1945
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The Red Army enters
Austria.
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29th March, 1945
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United States Army land on Okinawa.
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1st April, 1945
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A 700 plane kamikaze
attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers..
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6th April, 1945
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The Japanese giant battleship Yamato
sunk off Okinawa.
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7th April, 1945
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General Harold
Alexander and British forces
mount a new offensive in northern Italy.
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9th April, 1945
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Pastor Dietrich Bonhoffer is hanged by the Nazi authorities.
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9th April, 1945
|
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and is replaced by Harry S. Truman.
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12th April, 1945
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Liberation of Belsen and Buchenwald.
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13th April, 1945
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Ernie Pyle,
America's most famous war journalist, killed by Japanese sniper.
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17th April, 1945
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Liberation of Dachau.
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25th April , 1945
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United
Nations Conference held in San
Francisco.
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25th April , 1945
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Benito Mussolini is
executed in Milan by Italian partisans.
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28th April , 1945
|
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German forces
in Italy
surrender to the Allies.
|
29th April , 1945
|
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Adolf Hitler
commits suicide.
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30th April, 1945
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Joseph Goebbels commits suicide.
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1st May , 1945
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Commander of German troops in Berlin surrenders.
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2nd May, 1945
|
|
Queen
Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands.
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2nd May, 1945
|
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Frank Messervy and his troops captures Ragoon in Burma.
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3rd May, 1945
|
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All military forces in Germany
surrender to the Allies.
|
4th May, 1945
|
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Denmark liberated
by Allied trrops.
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5th May, 1945
|
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End of the Battle of the Atlantic.
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7th May, 1945
|
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General Alfred Jodl signs the
official surrender of Germany.
|
8th May, 1945
|
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Winston
Churchill announces VE day.
|
8th May, 1945
|
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The German Army
in Czechoslovakia surrender to the Red Army.
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9th May, 1945
|
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Heinrich Himmler commits
suicide.
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22nd May, 1945
|
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William Joyce
(Lord Haw Haw) is captured at Flensburg.
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28th May, 1945
|
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Manhattan Project
scientists test atom
bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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16th July, 1945
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United States Army
Air Force drops atom bomb on Hiroshima.
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6th August, 1945
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United States Army
Air Force drops atom bomb on Nagasaki.
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9th August , 1945
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General Tomoyuki
Yamashita surrenders army in the Philippines.
|
2nd September, 1945
|
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General Douglas
MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
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2nd September, 1945
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