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world war 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Germany invades Czechoslovakia | March, 1939 |
| Pact of Steel b/w G and Italy | May, 1939 |
| non-aggression pact | 8/23/1939 |
| Britain and Poland signed treaty | 8/25/1939 |
| Poland invaded, Br/Fr declare war, US proclaims neutrality...Canada declares war, Battle of Atlantic begins | 9/1939 |
| Invasion of France begins, Churchill becomes PM...Dunkirk evacuation | May, 1940 (3) |
| Italy decl war, Germany enters Paris, Armistice between Fr and Ger signed. | June, 1940 (3) |
| U-boats attack merchant ships | July, 1940 |
| Battle of Britain, air raids | August, 1940 |
| Operation Sealion planned; Germany begins blitzkrieg on Britain, Tripartite Pact signed | September, 1940 |
| Operation Sealion postponed 6 mo. | October, 1940 |
| November, 1940 | Coventry bombed |
| December, 1940 | British offensive in N. Africa, London air raids continue |
| March, 1941 | Lend-Lease Act signed |
| June, 1941 | Operation Barbarossa begins; Germans take Minsk |
| July, 1941 | Stalin declares scorched earth policy |
| August, 1941 (2) | U.S. embargo against Axis announced; Atlantic Charter signed |
| September, 1941 | Kiev taken |
| October, 1941 | Operation Typhoon (Moscow), Germans take Odessa |
| December, 1941 (3) | Attack on Moscow abandoned; Pearl Harbor bombed, U.S./Br declare war on Japan, Ger declares war on US; Rommel retreats in N. Africa |
| June, 1942 | Auschwitz begins |
| July, 1942 | Battle of El Alamein |
| August, 1942 | Stalin, Churchill meet in Moscow |
| Sept, 1942 (2) | Montgomery beats Rommel at Alam Halfa; Battle of Stalingrad |
| November, 1942 | Soviets begin a counteroffensive |
| January, 1943 (4) | Germans withdraw from Caucasus; Soviets begin offensive in Stalingrad; Casablanca (unconditional surrender); Tripoli |
| February, 1943 | Germany surrenders Stalingrad |
| March, 1943 | Battle of Atlantic climaxes with sinking of 27 ships by U-boats |
| May, 1943 | Allies take Tunisia, Axis surrender in N. Africa; British begin air raid on Ruhr |
| July, 1943 | Battle of Kursk |
| January, 1944 | Leningrad survives 900-day siege |
| March, 1944 | British air raid on Hamburg |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day |
| August 25, 1944 | Paris liberated |
| October, 1944 | Rommel commits suicide |
| December, 1944 | Battle of the Bulge, Germany's last offensive |
| February, 1945 | Yalta; Dresden fire bombings |
| April, 1945 | FDR dies; Ruhr surrenders; Hilter commits suicide |
| Germany surrenders unconditionally; V-E Day | May 7-8, 1945 |
| Potsdam | July, 1945 |
| Hiroshima; Soviets decl war on Japan, Nagasaki, Japanese surrender unconditionally | August 6-14, 1945 |
| V-J Day | September 2, 1945 |
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