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| 11 Nov 2016 04:39 PM |
1939 - 1945 The Second World War. Bombing of British cities, compulsory military service and food rationing were brought in. 1935 - 36 Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia. 1937 7 July -flagJapan invades flagChina. 1938 Germany marches into flagAustria and takes it over. 1939 March -Germany takes over flagCzechoslovakia. Sept. - Germany invades flagPoland 3 Sept - The Prime Minister of UkBritain, Neville Chamberlain, declares war on Germany. flagFrance, flagAustralia and flagNew Zealand also declares war on flag Germany.
6 Sept. - South Africa declares war on Germany. 10 Sept. - flag Canada declares war on Germany. 17 Sept. - The Soviet Union invades flag Poland from the east.
30 Nov. The Soviet Union invades flagFinland.
1940 9 Apr. - Germany invades flagNorway and flagDenmark. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. Winston Churchill10 May - UkWinston Churchill becomes the new British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain. 10 May - Germany attacks western Europe - flagLuxembourg, flagHolland and Belgium. flag Luxemburg surrenders to the Germans 12 May - The German army enters flagFrance 14 May Holland surrenders to the Germans. 14 May - The Local Defence Volunteers (Dad's Army) is created in Uk Britain. It was later called the Home Guard 27 May - The evacuation of 340,000 soldiers of the Uk#########nd flag French armies from the be#######f Du########28 May - Belgium surrenders to the Germans 4 June - The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk. 9 June - Norway surrenders to the Germans 10 June - Italy enters the war and declares war on Uk Britain and flag France 14 June - The German army enters and took over Paris. 30 June 1940 (until the Liberation on 9 May 1945) German troops take over the Channel Islands, the only British soil occupied by Germany 21 June - flagItaly invades southern France. 22 June - German troups conquer most of flag France. flagFrance surrenders to the Germans 9 July - Uk RAF Bomber Command start night raids on Germany 10th July -Uk Battle of Britain begins 7 Sept - Uk The London Blitz starts 13 Sept. - flag Italy invades British-controlled flagEgypt from Italian-controlled Libya. 20 Sept. - Germany, flag Italy, and flag Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. Oct. - flag Italy invades flagGreece Nov. - flagSlovakia (November 23), flagHungary (November 20), and flagRomania (November 22) join the Axis. 1941 March - flagBulgaria joins the Axis. 6 Apr. - Germany invades flagYugoslavia and flag Greece. 10 May - German air raid damages the Uk House of Commons in London. 22 June - Germany invades Russia 7 Dec. - The flag Japanese attack the flagUSA Naval Base at Pearl Harbour, flagHawaii 8 Dec. - The flag United States declares war on flag Japan, entering World War II. 11 Dec. - Germany and flag Italy declare war on the flagUnited States
flag United States formally declares declares war on Germany and flagItaly.
25 Dec - flagHong Kong surrenders to flag Japan. 1942 2 Jan. - flag Japan captures Manila in the flagPhilippines 15 Feb. - The flag Japan captures flagSingapore 5 May - The Battle of the Coral Sea between the flag US and flag Japanese navies 30 May - Anglo-Americans start bombing Germany 8 Nov - Uk British and flag U.S. troops win back North Africa 11 - 13 Dec. - Naz####rmany and its Axis partners declare war on the flag United States. 1943 19 April - May############e######rising in occupied Poland The largest single revolt by Jews against the Na#####uring WW2. 16 May - The Dam Buster Raid 28 Sept. - flag Italy surrenders 10 Oct. - flag Italy swaps sides and declares war on Germany 1944 4 June - flag Rome is freed by the Allies 6 June - Uk British andflag U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy bea####### flag France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans. This day is known as D-Day 12 June - The first of Germany's terror weapons, the V1 (doodlebug), falls in Uk England at Swanscombe in Kent 15 Aug. - Allied forces land in flag southern France near Nice. 20 Aug. - Allied troops reach flag Paris. Aug/Sept - Warsaw Uprising in occupied Poland, the largest ######ivilian revolt in history, by the Polish population against the Na######11 Sept. - U.S. troops enter Germany 20 Oct. - U.S. troops land in theflag Philippines. 16 Dec. - The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer flagBelgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. 1945 12 Jan. - The flagSoviets liberate Warsaw and Krakow in flag Poland. 13 Feb. - The flag Soviets capture Budapest, capital city of flagHungary. 16 Ap#### The flag Soviets launch their final offensive, en##########erlin. 30 Ap#### Hi######ommits su#######7 May Germany surrenders to the western Allies. 8 May UkWinston Churchill announces VE Day - Victory in Europe. British people wave flags, sing and dance in the streets. WW2 ends in Europe 9 May - Germany surrenders to the flag Soviets. Creation of the Welfare State introduced so######e########ayments for the unemployed. 6 Aug. - The first atomic bomb is dropped by flag The United States on flag Hiroshima killing 78,000 citizens 8 Aug. - The flag Soviet Union declares war on flag Japan and invades Manchuria. 9 Aug. - flag The United States drops an atomic bomb on flag Nagasaki. 14 Aug. - flag Japan surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. V-J Day (Victory in Japan) 2 Sept. - Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II. |
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| 11 Nov 2016 04:47 PM |
| Thanks for the history lesson |
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hotw223
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| 11 Nov 2016 05:02 PM |
cool cool
cool,cool,cool cool |
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| 11 Nov 2016 05:04 PM |
| Finally, A good post atleast. |
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Kamov
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| 11 Nov 2016 05:05 PM |
Fun fact is that Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peacy treaty since the end of WW2
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mursz
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| 11 Nov 2016 05:06 PM |
@laimon
Not really, he literally directly copied it from some article, and there's some hashtags, and "flag" is next to some of the events listed. |
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