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Tuesday, 25 August 2015

WORLD WAR II - 1939

March 15: German troops march into Prague and took Bohemia & Moravia.
March 16: Germans take Czechoslovakia
March 22: Germans annex Memel; Lithuanians forced to sign treaty with Germany
March 28: Spanish civil war ends
March 23: Poland rejects German proposals on Danzig
March 31: Chamberlain announces Anglo-French guarantees to Poland
April 7: Italy invades Albania. Spain joins Germany, Italy & Japan in Anti-comintern part.
April 13: Britain, France guarantee independence of Rumania & Greece
April 28: Hitler rejects Roosevelt’s peace proposals, denounces Anglo-German Naval pact and German-Polish Non-aggression pact.
May 22: Germany signs ‘Pact of Steel’ with Italy a military alliances.
August 12: Anglo-French mission to Russia begins talk in Moscow.
August 23: Germany signs Non-aggression pact with Russia.
August 25: Britain & Poland signs a mutual Assistance treaty. Mussolini tells Hitler that Italy is not ready for war.
September 1: Germany invades Poland. France & Britain demand withdrawal of German troops in Poland. Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden declare themselves as neutral. Italy declares neutral in war between its own ally Germany and Poland.
September 3: Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand and India declare war on Germany. Belgium announces its neutrality in any European war. British liner Athenia became the first victim of German U-boat victim. 112 civilians killed including 28 Americans.
September 4: Japan declares neutrality in any European war.
September 5: German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland. US proclaims its Neutrality.
September 6: South Africa declares war on Germany.
September 7: Saar Offensive, French forces invade Saar Valley in Germany and advances into 8 kms.
September 10: Canada declares war on Germany & the Battle of Atlantic begins.
September 17: Soviet Red army invades Poland.
September 19: Soviet troops occupy Vilna.
September 22: Red Army captures Lwow.
September 23: German troops withdraw to the demarcation line agreed with Russia.
September 27: Warsaw surrenders to Germany.
September 29: Germany & Soviets divide up Poland. Russia signs pact with Estonia & Finland.
October 12: Stalin presents territorial demands to Finns.
October 27: US neutrality bill passed in Senate House.
November 1: The Netherlands declare itself neutral but mobilizes army and navy.
November 7: The Netherlands and Belgium issue joint offer of Mediation to find a path to peace.
November 8: Left wing activists attempt to assassinate Hitler fails in Munich.
November 9: Finland rejects Soviet demand
November 13: Soviet declares war on Finland and plans to set up Puppet Finnish government.
November 15: Germany rejects Belgium - Dutch offer for peace.
November 23: British merchant ship HMS Rawalpindi sunk by German battleship Scharnhorst.
November 27: Japan army captures Nanning in China. 
November 30: USSR invades Finland and bombs Helsinki.
December 2: Finnish army falls back to defenses on the Mannerheim Line.
December 3: International Olympics Committee cancels 1940 Olympics to be held in Finland.
December 7: Russians reach main Karelian defense line.
December 13: Battle of the river plate.
December 14: Russia expelled from the League of Nations.
December 22: Strong Finnish counter attack.
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January 2: Russians attack heavily in Karelian Isthmus.
January 8: Russian 44th division destroyed in Karelian Isthmus.
February 5: Allied war council agrees to send aircrafts & weapons to Finland.
February 11: German-Soviet economic pact signed.
February 12: Finnish cabinet favors peace. Australians & New Zealanders arrive at Suez.
February 17: Finland decides to withdraw troops in Karelia.
March 5: Finland decides to accept peace treaty for negotiations.
March 11: Chamberlain announces allied help for Finland.
March 12: Finland signs peace treaty with Russia.
March 13: Winter war concluded with Treaty of Moscow.
March 18: Hitler and Mussolini meets at Brenner. Mussolini is vague about joining the war.
April 1: Finns are expelled from occupied areas by Russians.
April 9: Germans occupy Denmark & invade Norway. Norwegian artillery sinks German battle-cruiser Blucher off Oslo.
April 10: First battle of Narvik. Germany advances from Oslo.
April 15: British troops land in Norway near Narvik.
April 21: Fighting continues in Namsos, Trondheim & Narvik.
May 1: Norwegians surrender in Lillehammer.
May 10: Germany invades Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg. Chamberlain resigns from Prime minister. Churchill becomes British prime minister.
May 14: Air raid by Germans in Rotterdam.
May 15: Holland surrenders to the Germany.
May 18: German troops capture Antwerp.
May 26: Operation Dynamo – the evacuation of Allied troops begins at Dunkirk.
May 28: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
June 3: Germany bombs Paris. Operation Dynamo ends. Over all 210000 British and 120000 troops are evacuated from Dunkirk.
June 5: Battle of France begins.
June 7: French aircrafts bomb Berlin.
June 10: Italy declares war on Britain & France. Norway surrenders to Germany.
June 14: Germans enter into Paris. First attacks on Maginot line.
June 15: Germans capture Verdun. Russia invades Lithuania without declaring war.
June 16: Reynaud resigns & Marshall Petain becomes French Prime minister.
June 17: 
June 18: Hitler & Mussolini meet at Munich.
June 22: France signs armistice with Germany’s Nazi at Compiegne.
June 24: France signs armistice with Italy at Rome.
June 28: Britain recognizes General Charles De Gaulle as the Free French leader.
July 1: German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
July 10: Battle of Britain begins.
July 16: Hitler orders to get ready for the invasion of England to be completed by Mid-August.
July 21: Hitler orders preliminary preparations for attacking Russia.
July 23: Soviet Russia occupies Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia.
August 3: Italians invade British colony Somaliland in East Africa.
August 7: British agrees De Gaulle’s organization of Free French forces.
August 12: Portsmouth bombed by Germans.
August 13: ‘Eagle Day’ of the Battle of Britain. Germans bomb British airfields.
August 15: Air battle over Britain.
August 17: Hitler announces total blockade of Britain.
August 19: British troops withdrawn from Somaliland.
August 23: London Blitz began by German air raid.
August 25: Royal Air Force begins air raid on Berlin.
September 3: Hitler plans operation Sea Lion for September 21.
September 13: Italy invades Egypt and occupied Sallum.
September 15: Luftwaffe air raids over Britain. Britain shot down more than 50 German aircrafts.
September 18: Italians occupy Sidi Barrani.
September 22: Japan forces enter into Indo-China.
September 27: Germany, Italy, Japan signs Axis plan.
October 4: Hitler, Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass.
October 7: German troops enter Rumania.
October 28: Italians invade Greece.
November 1: Italians cross the Kalamas River.
November 3: British troops land in Greece.
November 5: Roosevelt re-elected as US President.
November 11: Torpedo raids cripple the Italian fleet at Taranta, Italy.
November 14: Greeks push Italians back into Albania.
November 22: Greeks take Koritsa by defeating Italian 9th army.
November 23: Rumania joins the axis power.
December 4: Greece enters Premeti & captures the Albanian port of Sarande.
December 9: British initiate the operation ‘Compass’, the offensive program in Western desert of Africa.
December 11: British capture Sidi Barrani.
December 12: 20000 Italians taken into Desert.
December 17: British occupy Sollum & Capture 38,000 Italian prisoners.
December 18: Hitler issues secret memo on operation Barbarossa.
December 29: Massive air raid over London by German.
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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 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.
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January 1: Declaration of United Nations signed by the 26 Allied nations.
January 2: Japanese occupy Manila & Cavite. British & South Africans recapture Borovsk.
January 4: Additional Japanese troops arrive at east coast of Malaysia.
January 7: Heavy fighting between Chinese & Japanese at Changsha. Japanese enter into Central Malaysia.
January 8: Rommel forced to retreat from Ajdabiya.
January 9: Russians enter into Smolensk Prince.
January 16: Japan invades Burma from Thailand. US losses more troops in Bataan Peninsula.
January 17: Rommel’s last garrison in Cyrenaica surrender.
January 18: Axis power signs new military pact. Wannsee conference announces ‘Final solution of the Jewish problem’.
January 21: Rommel starts surprise attack and begins re-conquest of Cyrenaica.
January 22: Americans retreat of Bataan.
January 23: Japanese land at Rabaul, Kavieng & Balikpapan. Australia request US & UK for reinforcement. Heavy Japanese raid on Rangoon. Russians break through Lake Ilmen & Smolensk.
January 24: Battle of Macassar strait.
January 26: First American troops arrive at Great Britain.
January 28: Timoshenko advances into Ukraine. Rommel recaptures Benghazi.
January 30: British forces withdrawn from Singapore.
February 3: Japanese begin bombing of Moresby. Japanese make Pre-invasion air attack on Java. Japan capture Paan in Burma
February 4: Japan demand unconditional surrender of Singapore. Rommel captures Derna.
February 7: Japanese land of Singapore.
February 13: Red army enters White Russia.
February 15: Singapore surrenders to Japan.
February 19: Japan invades Bali & bombs Darwin.
February 20: Japan army land on Portuguese Timor. US agree to loan one billion dollar to Russia.
February 22: General Mac Arthur ordered to leave to Australia & appointed C-in-C of Allied forces in Australia.
February 23: Mutual agreement signed between US, UK, Australia & New Zealand.
February 27: Battle of Java Sea begins & allied troops destroyed.
February 28: Japanese army invades Java Island.
March 1: Russians launch offensive attack in Crimea.
March 2: Japan army land at Mindanao.
March 8: Japanese land at Lae & Salamanca. It started to enter Rangoon.
March 9: General Yamashita appointer C-in-C of Philippines. Dutch East India Company capitulates.
March 12: British garrison withdraws from Andaman Islands.
 March 18: British appoint Admiral Mountbatten as Chief of combined operations.
March 23: Japan captures Andaman Islands.
March 28: Allied troops starts raid on Saint-Nazaire.
March 30: Pacific war council established in Washington.
April 1: Japan army begins landing on Dutch New Guinea.
April 3: Japan starts all-out offensive against last line of defense of Bataan.
April 4: Japanese sinks HMS Dorsetshire, Cornwall, and Hermes in Indian Ocean.
April 9: General King surrenders Bataan.
April 16: George cross awarded at Malta.
April 18: Colonel Doolittle leads bombing raid on Japan.
April 29: Japan captures Lashio. Hitler & Mussolini meet at Salzburg.
April 30: Japan occupies central Burma.
May 1: British evacuate Mandalay.
May 2: All British troops from Irrawaddy withdrawn.
May 5: Japan army land on Corregidor. British army lands on Madagascar.
May 6: Wainwright surrenders all forces in Philippines.
May 7: Battle of Coral Sea begins.
May 8: Japan occupies Akyab. German begins summer offensive in Crimea. Main action on Battle of Coral Sea begins.
May 11: Japan launches offensive attack against Yunnan & Chekiang provinces.
May 13: Russia makes strong attack in Kharkov area. Germany withdraws forces in Kerch peninsula.
May 15: Retreating British forces cross Indo-Burma frontier.
May 16: Germans capture Kerch. Red army continues towards Kharkov.
May 17: Germans halt Russian offensive east of Kharkov.
May 20: Germans retake whole of Kerch peninsula. Japan takes defensive position in Burma.
May 26: 20 year old Anglo-Russian treaty signed. Rommel attacks Gazala line.
May 27: Heydrich assassinated in Prague.
May 28: Germans destroy large Russian forces in Kharkov area.
May 30: US task forces leave to Midway Islands. First Royal Air Force raids on Cologne.
June 4: Battle of Midway. US destroy four Japanese carriers.
June 5: Germans besiege Sebastopol.
June 7: Japanese invade Aleutians.
June 10: Free French forces withdrawn from Bir Hakeim.
June 17: British withdraw towards Egypt & leaves garrison in Tobruk.
June 19: Churchill & Roosevelt confer on problems of second front.
June 20: Tobruk falls. Germans drive towards Sebastopol defense.
June 24: Rommel advances to Sidi Barrani.
June 25: Auchinleck takes command in Desert. Eisenhower appointed as US C-in-C of Europe.
June 27: German advance to Mersa Matruh.
June 28: German offensive at Kursk. British started to withdraw to El Alamein area.
June 30: Rommel reaches Alamein.
July 2: British force German to withdraw from Alamein.
July 3: German captures Sebastopol. 
July 4: Germans reach Don on wide front. PQ-17 convoy to Russia attacked by German.
July 7: Germans capture Voronezh.
July 12: Australians arrive at Kokoda.
July 22: Japanese reinforcement of Kokoda Trail moves to Buna.
July 3: Stalin orders ‘Not another step back’.
July 31: Germans cross Don on front.
August 7: US marines land in Guadalcanal - Tulagi area of Solomons.
Aug 8: Battle of Savo Islands.
August 9: Germans capture Krasnodar & Maykop.
August 11: Violent attacks on ‘Pedestal’ convoy to Malta. HMS Eagle sunk.
August 12: First Moscow conference begins.
August 13: Montgomery takes command of 8th Army. Germans advance towards to Caucasus.
August 15: General Alexander takes over command of MEF from General Auchinleck.
August 17: Germans establish bridgeheads Kuban Peninsula. British & Canadian raid Dieppe.
August 19: General Paulus order German 6th army to attack Stalingrad.
August 24: Sea battle begins east of Solomon.
August 26: Japan land at Milne.
August 28: Heavy fighting around Stalingrad.
August 31: Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
September 3: Fierce fighting at south of Stalingrad.
September 5: Australians force Japan to move out of Milne Bay.
September 11: Japanese halted in Owen Stanley Range at Ioribaiwa.
September 16: German army Group B enters through suburbs of Stalingrad.
September 30: First British liaison mission arrives in Greece.
October 11: Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal.
October 14: Hitler orders all troops to stop on Eastern front.
October 17: Bitter fighting at Eora Creek on Kokoda Trail.
October 19: US war department agrees to equip 30 more Chinese divisions.
October 23: Battle of Alamein starts. Japanese suffer heavy losses in Guadalcanal.
October 24: Battle of Santa Cruz off Guadalcanal. USS Hornet sunk.
October 25: El Alamein battle intensified. Another Japanese attack repulsed on Guadalcanal.
October 30: 8th army assault on northern flank of the 30th corps.
November 1: Marines launch attacks on Guadalcanal.
November 2: Operation ‘Supercharge’, the breakout from Alamein begins.
November 4: Axis starts to retreat from Alamein.
November 6: British 8th army approach Mersa Matruh.
November 8: Operation ‘Torch’ begins. Algeria falls to Germany.
November 10: Rommel starts to evacuate Sidi Barrani. ÚS troops take Oran.
November 11: Axis troops enter unoccupied France and Corsica.
November 12: US navy losses 2 Cruisers & 4 destroyers in the naval battle at the 1st battle of Guadalcanal.
November 13: British 8th army reaches Tobruk.
November 15: Japan nears to defeat in Guadalcanal.
November 18: British 8th army enters Cyrene.
November 20: British 8th army enters Benghazi.
November 23: Soviet Red Army forms ring around German 6th army at Stalingrad. Hitler orders dig and await relief.
November 28: Wide Russian offensive on Central Forces.
November 30: Naval Battle of Tassafaronga.
December 13: Rommel withdraws troops from El Aghelia.
December 17: United Nations to avenge Nazi crimes against Jews.
December 18: U.S. and Australian troops fight fiercely against Japan in Papua.
December 21: British and Indian troops cross Burma and advance towards Akyab.
December 24: Admiral Darian assassinated.
December 25: 8th army occupies Sirte.
December 28: Hitler agrees to withdraw Army A from Caucasus.
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January 3: Germans start to withdraw from Caucasus.
January 4: Japanese begin to evacuate from Guadalcanal.
January 8: Rokossovsky send Ultimatum to Paulus to surrender German 6th army.
January 15: 8th army opens offensive against Buerat.
January 18: German army uses Tiger tanks in Tunisia. Seige of Leningrad raised by Russian attack.
January 19: British 8th army occupies Homs, Tarhuna. Japanese retreat from Sanananda.
January 23: British 8th army enters Tripoli.
January 26: Russians complete capture of Voronezh and took prisoners.
January 27: US Air Force makes first attack of Germany bombing at Wilhelmshaven.
January 31: Paulus surrenders southern 6th army at Stalingrad.
February 1: Japanese 17th army evacuated from Guadalcanal. Churchill arrives in Cairo from Adana.
February 2: German forces capitulate at Stalingrad.
February 6: Russians reach Sea of Azov at Yeysk, isolating German group army A.
February 8: Russians take Kursk.
February 14: Germans launch counter attack In Tunisia. Russians take Rostov.
February 16: Russians capture Kharkov, Voroshilovgrad. British 8th army occupies Mareth line outpost.
February 17: Germans reach Feriana, Kasserine, Sbeitla.
February 20: Germans break-through to Kasserine pass.
February 25: Allied troops recover Kasserine pass.
March 2: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
March 5: End of Bismarck Sea battle. 12 Japanese ships sunk.
March 6: Rommel leaves from Africa.
March 12: Opening of military conference on Pacific in Washington.
March 13: Chinese army pushes Japanese back to cross Yangtze.
March 15: Germans recapture Kharkov.
March 20: 8th army starts attack on Arakan front.
March 28: German 8th army takes Mareth, Toujane, and Matmata.
March 29: German 8th army occupies Gebes, El Hamma.
April 6: 8th army attacks at Wadi Akarit.
April 7: 8th army links with US II corps. Hitler, Mussolini met at Fuhrer’s Headquarters.
April 18: Admiral Yamamoto’s plane intercepted & shot down. Yamamoto killed in the attack.
April 19: Rising in Warsaw Ghetto begins.
April 21: British 8th army takes Enfidaville.
April 22: 1st army attack at Bou Arada towards Tunis.
April 23: Hitler orders utmost severity in treatment of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto.
April 24: US warships enter though Japanese positions in the Aleutians.
April 30: British appoint new command to Royal Navy to co-ordinate convoy protection.
May 7: 18th army group overruns Tunisia & Bizerte.
May 9: Axis forces in US II corps zone in Tunisia surrender.
May 11: US infantry make surprise landing on Attu.
May 12: Arnim & Axis forces surrender in Africa. 2nd Washington conference begins.
May 13: Giovanni Messe surrenders. Japanese launches heavy air attacks in New Guinea.
May 16: Rising suppressed in Warsaw Ghetto.
May 17: Japanese retreat on Attu.
May 21: Japanese launch attack on central China.
May 23: Heaviest Royal Air Force raid on Dortmund and drops 2000 tons.
May 25: 2nd Washington conference ends.
May 27: First dropping of British liaison mission to Tito’s partisans.
May 29: Chinese launch new counterattack on Hubei-Hunan border, supported by US Air Force.
May 30: Organized resistance collapses on Attu.
June 4: Russians bomb Karachev, Bryansk. Luftwaffe bombs Gorki.
June 8: Japanese order abandonment of Kiska.
June 11: British invade Pantelleria virtually unopposed.
June 16: Tojo informs Japanese Diet that the war situation became tense. Japan lost 100 aircraft on Guadalcanal.
June 20: Japan launch attacks on Australian positions on Mubo-Lababia Ridge area in New Guinea.
June 25: Allies continue bombing of Sicily.
July 1: Americans capture Viru Harbour, New Georgia Islands.
July 4: General Sikorski killed in air crash.
July 5: Germans launch last attack on Eastern front in Kursk sector.
July 9: Us troops land on Sicily. Russian stops axis forces north & south of Kursk.
July 12: Greatest tank battle in history fought near Prokhorovka. Russians start counter attack.
July 15: Russians launch near Orel. Japanese lose 45 aircraft in air battle over central Solomon.
July 22: Americans capture Palermo.
July 24: King of Italy invited to command armed forces. 20000 killed by RAF air raid on Hamburg.
July 25: Mussolini resigns and arrested. Marshal Badoglio takes command of Italian army and forms government.
July 26: Martial Law in Italy. Fascist party dissolved.
July 28: Roosevelt broadcasts Allies terms to Italy.
August 1: De Gaulle becomes president of French committee of National Defense. Giraud appointed as C-in-C of French armed forces. Allied nations warn neutral countries not to give shelter to war criminals.
August 5: Russians take Orel, Belgorod.
August 6: Battle of Vella Gulf. Russians close in on Kharkov.
August 12: Large scale German evacuation from Sicily.
August 14: Rome declared as open city.
August 17: Americans enter Messina. All opposition in Sicily ends. Royal Air Force bombs Peenemunde.
August 22: Germans evacuate Kharkov.
August 23: Russians capture Kharkov. Russians raid on Chung King.
August 28: Japan opposition in New Georgia ends.
September 3: Allies land in Messina. Allies sign Armistice with Italy but not announced.
September 4: Allies land at east of Lae.
September 7: Himmler & Goring order total evacuation of Ukraine.
September 8: Eisenhower and Badoglio announce surrender of Italy. Russians finish retake of Donets Basin.
September 9: Allies land at Salerno. First British Airborne division lands at Taranto.
September 10: Germans occupy Rome. 8th army takes Taranto.
September 12: Skorzeny rescues Mussolini.
September 13: Germans push 5th army back at Salerno. Chiang Kai-Shek elected as President of China.
September 22: Allies land at Bari. Poltava took by Russian army.
September 25: Russians take Smolensk.
October 1: US 5th army capture Naples.
October 2: US 5th army takes Benevento. British commandos land at Termoli.
October 3: Japan attacks central China.
October 5: US Navy begins two day Sea and air bombardment of Wake Islands.
October 13: Italy declares war on Germany.
October 18: Second Moscow conference.
November 5: US Task Force & US air force destroys Japan cruisers & destroyers at Rabaul.
November 6: Japan recaptures Kiev.
November 7: Japanese reinforcement land on Bougainville.
November 20: US troops land on Makin 7 Tarawa Atolls. British 8th army crosses Sangro.
November 22: First Cairo conference.
November 23: Organized resistance at Tarawa ends.
November 28:  Teheran conference begins.
December 3: Russians advance to wide front. 2nd Cairo conference begins.
December 7: Cairo conference ends.
December 12: Czech-soviet alliance signed in Moscow. Rommel appointed as C-in-C of fortress Europe.
December 14: Russians open winter offensive.
December 17: 5th army takes Sen Pietro.
December 21: Russian destroy German bridgehead over Dnieper at Kherson.
December 25: Allies land on New Britain.
December 26: American marines land at Cape Gloucester. Royal Navy sinks the Scharnhorst. Russians launch offensive on Kiev Salient.
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Jan 5: 5th army begins final assault on winter Line, East of Cassino.
Jan 6: Russians advance into Poland.
Jan 7: Russians advance into Ukraine.
Jan 15: 5th army takes Mount Trocchio. Germans withdraw across Rapido. Russians open offensive for Leningrad & Novgorod.
Jan 16: Eisenhower assumes duty as supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary forces.
Jan 17: British 5th army’s 10th corps crosses Garigliano.
Jan 19: Russians take Novgorod.
Jan 20: Americans reach the Rapido.
Jan 22: US 5th army lands at Anzio.
Jan 24: US 5th army occupies Anzio & Nettuno.
Jan 26: Russians announces complete relief of Leningrad.
Jan 27: Russians trap large German force in front line at Kangew.
Jan 30: US 5th army break into Gustav Line.
Jan 31: Us troops makes successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll. Austrian & Dutch troops engage Japanese in Dutch New Guinea.
Feb 3: Russians surround 10 division of German 8th army.
Feb 4: Japanese open offensive on Arakan front to force Allies back to India.
Feb 5: Americans mop up in Kwajalein. Chindit 16th Brigade begins to move towards Indaw, Burma.
Feb 7: Allied force cut off in ‘Admin Box’ on the Arakan front.
Feb 8: Plan for overload confirmed at Allied Headquarters. Australians clear Huon peninsula.
Feb 14: Eisenhower establishes SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Extraordinary Force) Headquarters.
Feb 15: Air & artillery bombardment destroys Cassino Abbey.
Feb 16: Germans launch second offensive at Anzio.
Feb 19: US troops land on Eniwetok islands. Allied air strikes halt German attack at Anzio.
Feb 21: Tojo becomes Chief of Japanese army General staff.
Feb 25: British clear Japanese from Ngakyedauk pass in Burma. ‘Admin Box’ relieved.
Mar 2: Greek resistance groups co-operate to fight Germans.
Mar 4: Us & Chinese troops move against Japanese in Hukawng valley. US air force conducts first air raid on Berlin.
Mar 6: Russians advance 100 mile front into Ukraine.
Mar 9: Japanese attack on Bougainville.
Mar 13: British & West African troops land on Arakan coast. Russians capture Kherson.
Mar 14: Germans trapped in Nikolayev pocket. British withdraw from Tiddim to Imphal plain.
Mar 18: Royal Air Force drops over 3000 bombs on Hamburg. One of the heaviest air raids till today.
Mar 24: Japanese decisively beaten during counter offensive on Bougainville.
Mar 26: British para-troops retreat to Imphal after delaying Japanese advance.
Mar 29: Siege of Imphal begins. Imphal – Kohima road cut.
Mar 31: Russians capture Ochakov on the Black Sea.
Apr 2: Russians enter Rumania.
Apr 4: Japanese begin assault on Kohima.
Apr 8: Russians reach Czech border. Russia opens final offensive attack on Crimea.
Apr 10: Odessa falls to Red army.
Apr 11: Russians take Kerch; German 17th army retreats into Sebastopol; Russians advance into Simferopol.
Apr 17: Russians liberate Tarnopol and cut the Axis front to two.
Apr 22: USA makes unopposed landing at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea.
Apr 27: Americans control all airfields in Hollandia and occupies Indaw.
Apr 28: Japanese advance in Honan province. US & Chinese troops move towards Mogaung valley.
May 5: 14th army begins attack on Assam.
May 7: Russians attack on Sebastopol.
May 8: Eisenhower decides June 5 as D-day for Normandy invasion.
May 9: Russians take Sebastopol. Japanese capture Lushan and cut last sector of Peiping - Hangkow railway. Allied Air Force launches air attack to prepare for D-day.
May 11: 5th and 8th armies open offensive to break through Germans on Gustav Line.
May 12: Allies cross Carigliano and Rapido rivers. Last German forces evacuated from Crimea.
May 13: Allies take St. Angelo, Castleforte; open way to Rome.
May 15: Germans begin withdrawal from Gustav line to Adolf Hiller Line.
May 16: 5th & 8th armies overrun Gustav line south of the Liri. Last Japanese troops cleared from Kohima Bridge.
May 17: Us forces land on Wakde and Insoemanai Islands. Kesselring orders Cassino to evacuate.
May 22: Canadians break through Adolf Hitler Line.
May 23: Allied offensive from beachhead begins with large air support operation ‘Buffalo’.
May 25: Troops from Anzio link up with 5th army patrols at Terracina.
May 27: Americans land on Biak Islands.
May 29: First tank battle of South West Pacific is fought on Biak.
May 31: Germans launch heavy attacks against Russians on North of Jassy.
Jun 2: Chinese besiege Myitkyina.
Jun 3: Hitler orders Kesselring to withdraw from Rome. End of battle of Kohima.
Jun 4: US 5th army enters Rome.
Jun 5: Air borne troops dropped in Normandy.
Jun 6: D-day. Allied naval troops land in Normandy, French coast between Cherbourg & Le Havre.
Jun 7: Allies reach Bayeux.
Jun 10: Allied bridgehead expands. Montgomery establishes Headquarters in Normandy. Russians break through into Karelian Isthmus.
Jun 12: All Normandy beachheads linked up. Front extends to 50 miles.
Jun 13: First V-1 flying bombs land in England.
Jun 15: US marines land on Saipan and makes inland pass against strong opposition.
Jun 16: US Air Force conducts first air raid on Kyushu islands, Japan from Chinese base.
Jun 18: Russians break through Mannerheim Line. British 8th army takes Assisi. US troops reach West coast of Cotentin peninsula and cut off Cherbourg.
Jun 19: Naval air battle in Marians. Battle of Philippine at Sea. Japan lost about 400 aircrafts.
Jun 20: US carrier aircraft destroys retiring Japanese fleet. Japan loses 14 warships and 3 aircraft carrier destroyers.
Jun 22: British 14th army clears Kohima – Imphal road and relieves Imphal. Chindit begin attack on Mogaung.
Jun 24: Russians reach the Dvina.
Jun 26: Mogaung taken. British launch drive to West of Caen and halted after heavy losses.
Jun 27: Russians cross Dnieper & German forces destroyed near Vitebsk.
July 3: Japan admirals Nagumo, Yano killed in fighting on Saipan.
July 9: 2nd army takes Caen. Russians cross the Vuoksi in Finland.
July 16: British 8th army takes Arezzo, reached the Arno.
July 17: Russians cross Bug into Poland. 8th army drives towards Florence.
July 18: US forces enter St. Lo. British 2nd army launches operation “Goodwood”. Japanese retreat from Imphal – Kohima area.
July 20: The July Bomb plot, attempt to assassinate Hitler.
July 21: US marines land on Guam.
July 24: Us marines land on Tinian, heavy fighting on Guam. 
July 27: US 1st army breaks through West of St. Lo. Russians capture L’viv, Stanislavov, Daugavpils and Rezekne.
August 1: Russians cut communications between East Prussia and Baltic States. Polish underground army fights in Warsaw.
August 9: Eisenhower sets up HQ in France.
August 10: Japanese garrison on Guam annihilated.
August 13: Germans begin withdraw from Falaise - Argentan trap.
August 14: Soviet offensive from Vistula bridgehead begins.
August 15: Operation ‘Anvil’ – Allies invade to southern France. US 7th army land between Toulon and Nice.
August 17: Russians reach East Prussian Border.
August 18: Roosevelt announces agreement reached between allies on military occupation of Germany.
August 20: US 3rd army establishes bridgehead across the Seine near Mantes-Gassing court. France enter Toulon Russians open offensive against Rumania & breakthrough Danube.
August 22: Beginning of fleet Air arm attack on Tirpitz and other German Naval unites in Altafjord.
August 23: FFI (Free Force of Interior) takes over control of Paris. Allies take Melun, Evreux, Grenoble, Hyeres, and Marseilles.
August 25: Allied forces liberate Paris.
August 26: Allied forces begin to advance to eastward from Seine bridgeheads.
August 27: Last Chindits evacuated to India.
August 28: Last garrison in Marseilles surrenders and Toulon cleared of Germans.
August 29: US 1st army liberates Soissons. French troops cross the Rhone.
August 31:
September 1: British enter Arias. Canadians take Dieppe, Rowen.
September 3: British 2nd army liberates Brussels. French forces capture Lyons.
September 4: British 2ne army liberates Antwerp.
September 5: US 3rd army spearheads cross the Meuse. Russia declares war on Bulgaria. Bulgaria requests armistice with Russia.
September 6: Russians reach Yugoslavia border.
September 8: Russians enter into Bulgaria unopposed. First V2 rocket lands at Chiswick, West London.
September 10: Operation “Market Garden”, plan to secure Rhine bridgehead at Arnhem. Russians capture Prague.
September 12: Us 1st army crosses German frontier near Aachen. German garrisons in Le Havre Surrenders.
September 14: Russians enter Warsaw Suburbs.
September 16: Russians enter Sofia.
September 17: 1st Allied airborne army lands in Holland near Eindhoven and Arnhem. Russians advance into Estonia.
September 18: End of German resistance in Brest.
September 21: British forces at Arnhem Bridge destroyed.
September 22: Russians enter Tallinn in Estonia and Arad in Rumania. Boulogne surrenders. US troops land on Ulithi Atoll.
September 23: Russians reach Gulf of Riga.
September 24: British 2nd army reaches Lower Rhine.
September 25: Canadians launch heavy attack on Calais. Hitler orders formation of Volkssturm.
September 26: Russians occupy Estonia.
September 30: Germans surrender at Calais.
October 1: Red army enters Yugoslavia.
October 2: Russians start offensive against Germans in North Finland. Warsaw patriots capitulate to Germans through lack of food & arms.
October 4: Russians and Tito’s forces link up. Operation “Manna” – British troops land in Greece.
October 5: British troops land in Albania and Greek islands.
October 6: Russians enter Czechoslovakia.
October 9: Third Moscow conference begins.
October 10: Russians reach Baltic coast. US 3rd fleet aircraft attacks shipping and airfields in Okinawa.
October 11: US 3rd fleet aircraft attack Luzon.
October 12: British Paratroops capture Athens airfield. US 3rd fleet aircraft starts 7 day air operations against Formosa.
October 13: Germans launch V-bomb attack against Antwerp. US last army enters Aachen.
October 14: British liberate Athens.
October 17: US rangers land on islands to approach Leyte Gulf.
October 19: British capture Japanese supply depot at Mohnyin in Burma. Moscow conference ends. Hitler orders annihilation of Warsaw. Spain closes French frontier. Germans evacuate Belgrade.
October 20: Us 6th army invades Leyte. Belgrade and Dubrovnik liberated.
October 23: Battle of Leyte Gulf. 3 day naval-air battle begins. Russians enter East Prussia.
October 25: US 3rd & 7th fleets continue to attack Japanese fleet at Leyte.
October 27: Kamikaze attacks on USTF 38 in Philippines. Russians opens new offensive in Latvia.
October 28: Russo-Bulgarian armistice signed in Moscow. Germans begin evacuation of Albania.
October 30: Last extermination gassing at Auschwitz.
November 2: Germans evacuated from Greece.
November 10: Russians and Partisans cross the Danube.
November 11: US navy bombards Iwo Jima.
November 12: Royal Air Force Lancaster sink the Tirpitz in Tromso Fjord.
November 16: British 14th army captures Kalemyo & cuts Japanese communications with south.
November 18: US 3rd army crosses German Frontier.
November 22: Us 3rd army clears Metz.
November 23: Germans evacuate Finnish Lapland & Macedonia.
November 24: Allies cross the Saar and French take Strasbourg. B-295 raid Tokyo from bases in Marianas for first time.
November 29: Russians cross Danube, north of the Drava. Russians cease operations in North Finland.
December 6: US 3rd army crosses the Saar.
December 7: US forces land near Ormoc on Leyte Island.
December 8: US air force begins 72-day bombardment of Iwo Jima.
December 9: Red army encircles Budapest.
December 15: Western Visayan task force lands on Mindoro and commences airfield construction. Chinese take Bhamo in Burma.
December 16: Battle of the Bulge. German V & VI panzer armies under Rundstedt begin counterattack against US 1st & 9th armies in the Ardennes.
December 22: Final German attempt to reach the Meuse in Ardennes offensive.
December 25: German Panzers turned back four miles from the Meuse. Japanese resistance on Leyte ends.
December 27: Budapest encircled.
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January 1: Luftwaffe employs over 800 aircraft to attack Allied air fields in France, Belgium and Holland in the last major Luftwaffe attack. Germans launch operation “Norwind” against US 7th army. US 8th army begins four month mopping up operations on Leyte.
January 2: Germans counterattack at Budapest.
January 3: US 1st army counterattacks in Germans Ardennes Salient.
January 9: US 6th army lands at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon Island.
January 11: Russians enter into Warsaw.
January 12: Russians begin winter offensive against South Poland.
January 16: Ardennes salient eliminated by join-up of US 1st and 3rd armies at Houffalize.
January 17: Germans evacuate Warsaw.
January 18: Germans break through Russian lines and reach Danube south of Budapest.
January 19: Russians take Tilsit & Cracow.
January 22: Burma Road reopened.
January 25: Americans capture Clark Field on Luzon.
January 27: Russians take Memel; Lithuania freed.
January 28: Last vestige of German salient in Ardennes removed. Russians enter into Pomerania. Supply convoy reaches China over the Ledo - Burma Road.
February 1: US 7th army reaches Siegfried Line. US 6th army drives towards Manila.
February 4: Yalta conference begins.
February 6: Russians cross the upper Oder.
February 8: British and Canadians launch operation to clear region between the Maas and the Rhine.
February 9: British and Canadians through Siegfried Line, reach the Rhine.
February 12: Yalta conference ends.
February 13: British 14th army establishes bridgeheads over Irrawaddy, south of Mandalay. RAF raids on Dresden.
February 14: USAAF raids on Dresden. US 6th army begins operation on Bataan peninsula.
February 15: Russians attack towards Danzig and complete encirclement of Breslau. Heavy fighting continues in Manila.
February 16: Indian Brigade lands on Arakan coast to block Japanese troop withdraw. US Paratroops land on Corregidor.
February 17: Americans occupy Bataan peninsula.
February 19: US Marines land on Iwo Jima.
February 23: Russians take Poznan. Marines take Mt Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
February 24: Americans complete occupation of Manila except for isolated pockets.
February 26: Canadian 1st army begins operation ‘Blockbuster’.
February 28: Corregidor declared secure.
March 3: Manila finally secured. US infantry land on Burias, Ticao islands.
March 5: US troops capture Cologne. Russians approach Stettin. Germans destroys bridges and as US 9th and 1st armies reach the Rhine.
March 6: Germans launch major counter-offensive towards Budapest. Russians march towards Danzig. Cologne cleared by US 1st army.
March 7: US 1st army crosses the Rhine river over Remagen railway bridge. US 3rd army thrust towards Ahr. Chinese occupy Lashio.
March 8: Americans enter Bonn. US troops land at Zamboanga on Mindanao.
March 9: US 3rd Army cross Rhine. Japanese attack French forces in Indo-China.
March 10: Japanese and French forces fight in Hanoi. US 1st and 2nd Armies link up on Rhine.
March 13: US 14th army capture Maymo & cut the escape route of Japan army in Mandalay.
March 16: US 3rd army begins assault across the Moselle. Iwo Jima secured.
March 17: US 3rd army captures Coblenz.
March 19: Japanese evacuate Mandalay.
March 22: Russians besiege Danzig and Gdynia. US 3rd army overcomes opposition in Mainz.
March 25: US 3rd Army cross Rhine and captures Darmstadt. US 9th Army contacts with British troops. Russians advance toward Austria by breaking German offensive.
March 26: British 2nd army expands bridgeheads towards Ijssel.
March 28: Russians capture Gdynia. Russians troops reach Austrian border.
March 30: Russians capture Danzig.
April 1: US 1st and 9th armies encircle Ruhr. US 1st army enters Hamm. French 1st army reaches Linkenheim.
April 4: Hungary cleared from Germans.
April 5: Russians denounces Russo-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
April 7: Russians break into Vienna. Royal Navy Aircrafts attacks Japanese in Sakadina Group.
April 9: Russians take Konigsberg fortress.
April 10: US 9th army takes Hanover. Canadians cross the Ijssel.
April 12: US President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman sworn in as President.
April 13: Russians occupy Vienna. Allied forces took Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps.
April 15: Canadians reach the North Holland.
April 16: Russians begin offensive towards Berlin along the rivers Oder and Neisse.
April 17: US extend another Lend Lease agreement with Russia.
April 18: Ruhr pocket is neutralized. British 2nd Army reaches Luneburg. US 3rd army crosses Czech border near Prex. US 9th army takes Magdeburg.
April 19: British begin assault on Bremen. US 1st army captures Halle and Leipzig.
April 20: US 9th army takes Nuremberg.
April 21: Russians develop pincer movement against Berlin. French army takes Stuttgart. US 5th Army and Poland 8th army enter into Bologna. Americans secure Ie Shima Island.
April 22: Hitler declares to stay in Berlin to end.
April 23: US 8th army ends Central campaign with the Capture of Cebu.
April 24: Red army forces enter into Berlin. British and Canadian forces enter Bremen and took Dessau. Dacha concentration camp liberated.
April 25: US 1st army makes contact with Russian forces near Torgau.
April 26: French forces occupy border from Basel to Lake Constance. Intense fighting in Okinawa. US 3rd and 5th army establishes bridgeheads across Danube.
April 28: Mussolini captured near Swiss Border and killed by partisans. US 7th army begins takes Augsburg and reaches Austrian border.
April 29: German army representative signs unconditional surrender at Caserta. US 3rrd army reaches Isau. 7th army reaches Munich and overruns Dachau concentration camp. Hitler publishes Testament and announces Admiral Donitz as his successor. Hitler marries Eva Braun.
April 30: Hitler commits suicide in Chancellery bunker. Russians reach the Reichstag building in Berlin. US 1st army meets Russians at Eilenburg. US 7th army clears Munich.
May 1: Australians land on Tarakan Island. British Air troops land on Rangoon.
May 2: Red army takes Berlin. German armies in Turin & Milan surrendered. British 2nd army reaches Baltic. Royal Air Force conducts last air raid in Europe.
May 2: Bernard Montgomery meets German envoys at Lüneburg Heath. US 7th army takes Innsbruck and advance in Brenner Pass. Indian troops enter Rangoon.
May 4: Germans agree to surrender troops in Denmark, Holland and in North-West Germany. US 7th army occupies Salzburg, Berchtesgaden and links with 5th army at the Brenner Pass.
May 5: German envoys arrive at Eisenhower’s HQ.
May 7: German Commander Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender of German forces to Western Allies and Russia at Reims.
May 8: Churchill and Truman proclaim V - E Day.
May 9: German surrender in Berlin ratified. Russians take Prague.
May 10: US 14th army links up with troops from Arakan and cut off west of the Irrawaddy.
May 11: US 10th army start two corps attack over Okinawa.
May 13: Russian army fight against last resistance in Czech. In Okinawa, Americans suffer heavy casualties. Australians capture Wewak Peninsula.
May 15: US Navy and Royal Navy attack Andaman Islands.
May 16: Dutch forces land on Tarakan Island.
May 18: Chinese occupy Foochow. US marines take Sugar Loaf in Okinawa.
May 19: Japanese opposition in Luzon ends.
May 21: Japanese supply base at Malaybalay, Mindanao was captured by Americans.
May 24: Japanese make paratrooper and air attack US airfields on Okinawa.
May 25: US joint Chief-of-Staff complete plan for operation ‘Olympic’, to invade Japan by November 1.
May 26: Japanese land route to Indo-China is blocked by Chinese when the capture Yunh-ning.
May 28: Lebanese and Syrians fight against French forces. British 12th army establishes Headquarters at Rangoon.
June 1: Japanese retreat on Luzon, Mindanao and Okinawa. Chinese attack north of Foochow.
June 3: French troops evacuated from Damascus and Beirut.
June 4: US marines land of North Oroku Peninsula and starts advancing.
June 5: Germany to be divided into four zones for 4 allies and Berlin to be commonly occupied.
June 8: US 6th army reaches the Magat on Luzon.
June 9: Japanese encircled on Oroku peninsula.
June 10: Australians 9th division invades Borneo and took Labuan airfield.
June 11: Australians land near Chabai.
June 13: Australians capture Brunei town. Resistance in Oroku peninsula ends.
June 17: Japan’s 32nd armies defence line collapses. US 6th army takes Naguilian.
June 18: Organized resistance on Mindanao ends. US 10th army commander killed on Okinawa. Australians reach Tutong in Burneo.
June 19: Australians reach north of Brunei Bay.
June 20: More number of Japanese surrenders at Okinawa.
June 22: Japanese resistance in Okinawa and Tarakan Island ceases.
June 27: Us 6th army reaches Aparri and Luzon campaign ends.
July 1: Australian 7th Division lands at Balikpapan. Chinese take Liuchow town.
July 3: Occupation of Berlin takes place. Australians take Balikpapan and oil installations.
July 10: US Task Force 38 and Royal Navy Task Force begin large scale operation against Japan mainland with 1000 aircraft raid on Tokyo.
July 12: British and American troops take control of Berlin. New allied landing on Borneo.
July 16: First atom bomb exploded at Los Alamos.
July 17: Potsdam conference opens. US Navy and Royal Navy aircraft attack Tokyo.
July 24: Royal Navy’s 3 day air and Sea attack on West coast of Malaysia begins against airfields and Railways.
July 25: Potsdam declaration on Japan.
July 30: Japan rejects Potsdam ultimatum.
August 2: Potsdam conference ends.
August 4: Chinese capture Sinning. Last Japanese troops in Burma are killed.
August 6: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
August 7: US 1st army arrives at Luzon and prepares operation against Japan.
August 8: Russia declares war on Germany. Russian Red army begins attack on Manchuria and North Korea.
August 9: US drops 2nd atomic bomb at Nagasaki.
August 10: Japanese broadcast to surrender.
August 14: Japan agrees to unconditional surrender. US air force’s B-29 conducts last air raid of the war over Kumagaya, Isezaki.
August 15: V-J (Victory over Japan) day.
August 20: Russians occupy Harbin and Mukden.
August 27: US Navy enters Bay of Sagami, Tokyo.
August 30: US Marines and 11th airborne division arrive at Japan and begins occupation. Royal Navy reoccupy Hong Kong.
September 2: Japanese envoys sign instrument of surrender on Board of Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 5: British land on Singapore.
October 24: United Nations Charter ratified by 29 nations.
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