January 3: Australian 6th Division enters through
Bardia defense. Luftwaffe arrives at
Italy.
January 5: Australian & British armies capture Bardia
and took 30,000 prisoners.
January 19: British advances into Eritrea and occupies Kassala
in Sudan.
January 20: Roosevelt’s third term begins as President.
January 21: British & Australian army breakthrough
Tobruk defense.
January 22: Both
British & Australian armies capture Tobruk.
February 3: British occupy Cyrene.
February 4: British army intercepts Italians at the
Benghazi.
February 5: Fierce fighting between British & Italians
at Benghazi.
February 6: British and Australian forces enter Benghazi.
February 7: Italians Collapsed at Beda Fomm.
February 8: Lend-Lease bill passed in the US House of
Representatives. Australian and British occupy El Aghelia.
February 10: Mussolini accepts Hitler’s offer of German armored
division.
February 11: German bombers attack convoy off Azores.
British forces advance into Italian Somalia in East Africa.
February 12: German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli,
North Africa.
February 19: Australian 8th division army enters
into Singapore.
February 20: British forces cross the Juba River into
Somaliland.
February 22: Rommel attacks at El Aghelia.
February 23: Free French forces arrive at Eritrea.
February 24: British cabinet agrees to send forces to
Greece.
February 25: British Nigerian troops occupy Mogadishu.
March 1: Bulgaria joins Axis nations.
March 2: German troops arrive at Bulgaria.
March 4: British forces leave to Greece from Egypt.
March 5: Hitler commands Japan to participate actively in
Far East.
March 6: British forces in Somaliland enter into Ethiopia.
March 7: British forces arrive at Greece.
March 8: Lend-Lease bill passed in US-Senate House by 60-31.
March 9: Italians launch offensive in Albania.
March 11: US President signs Lend-Lease bill.
March 12: USA sends $7,000,000,000 to British in Lend-Lease
bill.
March 19: Germany gives Ultimatum to Yugoslavia.
March 24: Germany captures El Aghelia. British army clears
Somaliland from Italians.
March 25: Yugoslavia signs tripartite pact.
March 27: Revolution in Yugoslavia. King Peter takes over
and forms a new government.
March 28: Battle of Cape Matron.
March 30: German, Italian ships were seized in the US ports.
April 1: Rashid Ali takes power in Iraq.
April 2: British withdraw troops from Mersa Brega.
April 3: Pro-axis regime formed in Iraq.
April 4: Germans capture Benghazi, Msus.
April 6: Germans invade Greece & Yugoslavia. British
capture Addis Ababa.
April 9: Rommel captures Bardia. German army enters into
Thessaloniki.
April 10: Australian 9th Division withdrawn to
Tobruk.
April 11: Blitz on Coventry. Italians & Hungarian troops
enter into Yugoslavia.
April 12: Belgrade surrendered to Germany.
April 13: Rommel encircles Tobruk. Stalin signs neutrality
act with Japan.
April 14: Germans attack Tobruk under Rommel.
April 17: Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
April 19: Bulgarians enter Macedonia. Heavy air raid over
London by Luftwaffe.
April 20: Germans cut off Greek from Macedonia & Epirus.
April 21: Royal Navy attacks Tripoli. Japanese occupy
Foochow.
April 22: Greek army enters into Thessaloniki. British
forces start to withdraw.
April 24: Germans enter at Thermopylae.
April 25: Germans capture Halfaya pass & invade Lemnos.
British pushed back to Mersa Matruh.
April 27: German troops enter into Athens. Greece surrenders
to Germany.
April 30: RAF surrounded by Iraq troops at Habbaniyah.
May 1: German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
May 2: British forces occupy Basra. Iraq demands withdrawal of
British forces.
May 5: RAF drops bomb on Hamburg.
May 6: British & native levies defeat Iraqi troops
around Habbaniyah.
May 10: Deputy Fuhrer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.
May 15: Operation Brevity begins, the British attack on
Egypt.
May 16: Last British reinforcements arrive in Crete.
May 18: Bismarck sails from Gdynia.
May 20: German operation Merkur begins against Crete.
Germany puts 120 divisions on Soviet front.
May 21: Germans capture Maleme airfield.
May 24: British ship Hood sunk by the Bismarck.
May 25: Bismarck escapes pursuers.
May 26: Bismarck stopped by Torpedo.
May 27: Bismarck sank by British navy. Germans take Canea.
May 28: British evacuate Heraklion.
May 30: Iraq revolt collapses.
May 31: British Finnish evacuation of Crete.
June 1: British enter Baghdad.
June 4: Pro-allied government formed in Iraq.
June 8: Group of Allied forces (British, Australian, Indian,
and Free French) invade Syria with the support of Royal Air Force & Navy.
June 11: USSR – Japan trade pact signed.
June 14: Operation ‘Battleaxe’ to relieve Tobruk begins. USA
freezes German & Italian assets in America.
June 15: British forces attack Sollum.
June 21: Free French forces occupy Damascus.
June 22: Operation Barbarossa begins, Germany invades
Russia. Italy & Rumania declare war on USSR.
June 23: German army crosses the Bug.
June 26: Finland declares war on USSR.
June 27: Sir Stafford Cripps & British military arrive
at Moscow.
June 28: Nazi’s capture Minsk.
June 29: Stalin, Malenkov, Beria, Voroshilov forms defense
committee.
June 30: Germans capture Lwan.
July 1: Germans capture Riga.
July 3: Stalin calls for ‘Scorched earth’ policy.
July 4: Tito announces resistance.
July 8: Germany & Italy partition Yugoslavia. Hitler
plans to raze Moscow, Leningrad.
July 9: Germans take Minsk pocket & Vitebsk.
July 10: Germany urges Japan to fight against Russia.
Germans cross the river Dnieper in Ukraine.
July 12: Anglo-Soviet mutual agreement signed.
July 14: Syria occupied by British forces.
July 18: USSR-Czech agreement signed in London.
July 21: Moscow bombed by Axis attack.
July 25: Japanese assets in US, UK frozen.
July 27: First raid in London after Churchill became prime
minister.
July 28: Japanese troops land in Indo-China.
July 30: USSR-Polish agreement signed.
August 1: US oil embargo against Japanese aggressors.
August 1: US oil embargo against Japanese aggressors.
August 3: Kleist, Stülpnagel Seal Uman pocket.
August 5: Soviet resistance in Smolensk ends.
August 7: Stalin becomes supreme commander. Red Air force
begins air raid on Berlin.
August 12: Atlantic charter signed by Churchill &
Roosevelt. North army group advances on Leningrad.
August 16: North army group captures Novgorod.
August 19: German encirclement of Leningrad begins.
August 21: Voroshilov calls for Leningrad defense to the
last man.
August 24: Russian counterattack at Gomel. Finland army
surrounds Russians at Vilipuri.
August 25: British & Russian army enters Persia.
August 28: Ceasefire in Persia, Ali Foroughi forms
government.
August 29: Russians evacuate Karelian Isthmus.
September 1: Japanese army press announces that Japan must
break out of Allied encirclement.
September 3: First use of gas chamber at Auschwitz.
September 4: Finland occupies Pre-war frontier. Heavy air
raid on Malta.
September 5: Germans capture Estonia successfully.
September 6: Japanese Imperial conference decides to accept
risk of war.
September 8: Leningrad surrounded by German tanks.
September 15: Siege of Soviet army begins.
September 19: Germans retake Kiev & Poltava.
September 25: German para-troops arrive at Crimea.
September 26: Hitler orders offensive against Russia.
September 28: Japanese occupy Changsha. First artic convoy
to Russia leaves from Iceland.
September 29: Massacre of Jews by Nazis in Kiev.
October 2: Hitler issues order of Day to attack Moscow
(operation Typhoon). Germans launch
attack against Moscow.
October 8: Germans take Orel.
October 10: Britain agreed to supply Russia on Lend-Lease
term.
October 16: Soviet government leaves Moscow to Kuybhshev.
Germans capture Odessa.
October 20: Resistance ends in Bryansk pocket. Germans
capture Stalino. Japan navy prepares to attack Pearl Harbor.
October 21: General Zhukov appointed as commander of outer
defense of Moscow.
October 24: Germans capture Kharkov.
October 27: Russians start counter attack in Moscow.
October 29: Germans enter through Crimea.
October 30: Bock attacks Moscow from North-west.
November 1: Germans capture Simferopol.
November 3: Germans capture Kursk. Yamamoto got approval to
attack US fleet.
November 10: Churchill announces Britain will join US if
Japan attacks.
November 14: HMS Ark Royal sinks off at Gibraltar by a
Torpedo attack.
November 16: Germans capture Kerch.
November 18: Operation Crusader – second western desert campaign
launched by the British 8th army.
November 19: British reach Sidi Rezegh.
November 22: Germans enter into Rostov.
November 23: Rommel destroys South African 5th
Brigade.
November 25: All out German attack in Moscow.
November 26: US demands Japanese troops to withdraw from
China. US forces receives war alert.
November 28: Russians retake Rostov from Germans.
November 29: Rommel orders counterattack.
December 1: Russians counterattack at Tula.
December 5: UK declares war on Hungary, Finland and Rumania.
December 6: Russian counterattack begins.
December 7: Japanese counter attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan
declares war on US, UK. Japanese land at Thailand & Malaysia. Singapore
bombed.
December 8: Allies declare war on Japan. Russia announces
its neutrality. Japanese Army and Navy starts attack on Hong Kong. Japanese
bomb Guam, Midway, and Wake Islands & Philippines.
December 9: Russians retake Tikhvin.
December 10: Japanese navy sinks HMS Repulse & Prince of
Wales. Japanese land on Luzon.
December 11: US declare war on Italy, Germany.
December 15: British withdraw its troops in Malaysia &
Burma. Rommel decides to evacuate Cyrenacia.
December 17: British advance to Gazala line. In Malaysia,
British withdraw its troops to Perak River.
December 18: Japanese land on Hong Kong.
December 19: British retake Derna & Mechili.
December 22: Japanese land in Gulf of Lingayen. First
Washington conference begins.
December 24: Japan army captures Wake Island. British retake
Benghazi.
December 25: Hong Kong surrenders to Japan.
December 29: Russians retake Kerch, Feodosia.
December 29: Russians retake Kerch, Feodosia.
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