The second world war was the deadliest conflict in human history killing between 55 and 60 million people. This worldwide conflict saw the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, The Netherlands, The Union of South Africa, Norway, Germany and Brazil , hungary, romania, bulgaria, croatia, and slovakia.
The start of ww2
Prior to the start of ww2 , germany had annexed austria and invaded czechlovakia . Britan and france thought nothing about it and allowed germany to do what it wanted.But germany went way too far as wanting to invade poland and the whole entire world .France and great britan declare war on germany , beginning the second world war.Germany and the soviet union invade poland on september the 1st and france and britan do nothing except a few dramatic sea clashes.
timeline
1939
September 1:Nazis invade Poland
September 3: Britian,France,New Zealand,and Australia declare war on Germany
September 10:Canada declares war on Germany
September 17:Soviets invade Poland
september 29:Nazis and Soviets divide Poland
november 8:Assasination try on hitler fails
november 30:Soviets attack finland
1940
march 12 :finland signs peace treaty with soviets
april 9:nazis invade denmark and norway
may 10:nazis invade france,belgium,luxemborg,and the netherlands;winston churchill becomes british prime minister
may 15:the netherlands surrender to nazis
may 26:evacuation of allied troops from dunkirk begins
june 14: germans enter paris
june 16:marshal pétain becomes french prime minister
18 juin: Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States
22 juin:france signs an armistice with nazi germany
23 juin:hitler tours paris
juillet 10:battle of britan begins
juillet 23:soviets take lithuania,latvia and estonia
august 3-19:italians occupy british somaliland in east africa
august 15:air battles and daylight raids over britan
august 17:hitler declares a blockade of the british isles
september 3:hitler plans operation sea lion ( the invasion of britan )
september 13:italians invade egypt
september 27:tripartite ( axis ) pact signed by germany,italy and japan
october 7:german troops enter romania
october 12:germans postpone operation sea lion until the spring of 1941
october 28:italy invades greece
november 20:hungary joins the axis powers
november 22:greeks defeat the italian 9th army
november 23:romania joins the axis powers
december 9/10:british begin a western desert offensive in north africa against the italians
1941
january 22:tobruk in north africa falls to the british and australians
febuary 11:british forces advance into italian somaliland in east africa
febuary 14: first units of germam ‘afrika korps’ arrive in north africa
march 7:british forces arrive in greece
march 11:president roosevelt signs the lend-lease act
april 3:pro-axis regime set up in iraq
april 6:nazis invade greece and yugoslavia
april 17:yugoslavia surrenders to the nazis
april 27:greece surrenders to the nazis
may 1:german attack on tobruk is repulsed
may 10: deputy fuhrer rudolph hess flies to scotland
may 10/11:heavy german bombing on london ; british bomb hamburg
may 15:operation brevity begins(the british counter-attack in egypt)
june 4:pro-allied government installed in iraq
june 8:allies invade syria and lebanon
june 14:united states freezes german and italian assets in america
june 22:germany attacks the soviet union as operation barbarossa begins
june 28:germans capture minsk
july 3:stalin calls for a scorched earth policy
july 10:germans cross the river dneiper in the ukraine
july 12:mutual assistance agreement between british and soviets
july 14:british occupy syria
july 26:roosevelt freezes japanese assets in the united states and suspends relations
august 1:united states announces an oil embargo against agressor states
august 20:nazi siege of leningrad begins
september 1:nazis order jews to wear yellow stars
september 3:first experimental use of gas chambers at auschwitz
september 19:nazis take kiev
september 29:nazis murder 33 771 jews at kiev
october 2:operation typhoon begins ( german advance on moscow)
october 16:germans take odessa
october 24:germans take kharkov
october 30:germans reach sevastopol
november 20:germans take rostov
november 27:soviet troops retake rostov
december 5:german attack on moscow is abandonned
december 6:soviet army launches a major counter-offensive around moscow
december 7:japenese bomb pearl harbor
december 8:united states and britian declare war on japan
december 11:hitler declares war on the united states
december 16:rommel begins a retreat to El agheila in north africa
december 19:hitler takes complete control of the german army
1942
january 1:declaration of the united nations signed by 26 allied nations
january 13:germans begin a U-boat offensive along the east coast of the usa
january 21: Rommel’s counter-offensive from El Agheila begins
january 26: First American forces arrive in Great Britain
april 23: German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain
may 8: German summer offensive begins in the Crimea
may 26: Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line
may 27: SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague
may 30: First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne)
in june: Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
june 4: Heydrich dies of wounds
june 5: Germans besiege Sevastopol
june 10:nazis liquidate lidice in reprisal for heydrich being assasinated
june 21: Rommel captures Tobruk
june 25: General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in London
june 30: Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt
july 1-30: First Battle of El Alamein
july 3: Germans take Sevastopol
july 5: Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends
july 9: Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR
july 22: First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened
august 7: British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa
august 12: Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow
august 17: First all-American air attack in Europe
august 23: Massive German air raid on Stalingrad
september 2: Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa
september 13: Battle of Stalingrad begins.
october 18: Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos
november 1:operation supercharge (allies break axis lines at el alamein)begins
november 8: Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa)
november 11: Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France
november 19: Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins
december 2: Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago
december 13: Rommel withdraws from El Agheila
december 16: Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR
december 17: British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged
december 31: Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships
1943
january 2/3: Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus
january 10: Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad
january 14-24: Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with “unconditional German surrender.”
january 23: Montgomery’s Eighth Army takes Tripoli
january 27: First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven)
february 2: Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies
february 8: Soviet troops take Kursk
february 14-25: Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa
february 16: Soviets re-take Kharkov
february 18: Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich
march 2: Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa
march 15: Germans re-capture Kharkov
march 16-20: Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats
march 20-28: Montgomery’s Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia
april 6/7: Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link
may 7: Allies take Tunisia
may 13: German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
may 16/17: British air raid on the Ruhr
may 22: Dönitz suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic
june 10: ‘Pointblank’ directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued
june 11: Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
july 5: Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk
july 9/10: Allies land in Sicily
july 19: Allies bomb Rome
july 22: Americans capture Palermo, Sicily
july 24: British bombing raid on Hamburg
july 25/26: Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies
july 27/28: Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg
august 12-17: Germans evacuate Sicily
august 17: American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany; Allies reach Messina, Sicily
august 23: Soviet troops recapture Kharkov
september 8: Italian surrender to Allies is announced
september 9: Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto
september 11: Germans occupy Rome
september 12: Germans rescue Mussolini
september 23: Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government
october 1: Allies enter Naples, Italy
october 13: Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt
november 6: Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine
november 18: Large British air raid on Berlin
november 28: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran
december 24-26: Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front
1944
january 6: Soviet troops advance into Poland
january 17: First attack toward Cassino, Italy
january 22: Allies land at Anzio in Italy
january 27: Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege
february 15-18: Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino
february 16:Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
march 4: Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies
march 15: Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins
march 18: British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany
april 8: Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea
may 9: Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol
may 11: Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome
may 12: Germans surrender in the Crimea
may 15: Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line
may 25: Germans retreat from Anzio
june 5: Allies enter Rome
june 6: D-Day landings on the northern coast of France
june 9: Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins
june 10:Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France
june 13:First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain
june 22: Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive)
june 27: U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France
july 3: ‘Battle of the Hedgerows’ in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk
july 9: British and Canadian troops capture Caen, France
july 18: U.S. troops reach St. Lô, France
july 20: Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails
july 24: Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek
july 25-30: Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô)
july 28: Soviet troops take Brest-Litovsk. U.S. troops take Coutances
august 1: Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches
august 4: Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland
august 7: Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches
august 15: Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France)
august 19: Resistance uprising in Paris
august 19/20: Soviet offensive in the Balkans begins with an attack on Romania
august 20:Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket
august 25:Liberation of Paris
august 29:Slovak uprising begins
august 31: Soviet troops take Bucharest
september 1-4: Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.
september 4: Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire
september 13: U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line in western Germany
september 17: Operation Market Garden begins (Allied airborne assault on Holland)
september 26: Soviet troops occupy Estonia
october 2: Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans
october 10-29: Soviet troops capture Riga
october 14: Allies liberate Athens; Rommel commits suicide
october 21: Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany
october 30: Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz
november 20: French troops drive through the ‘Beffort Gap’ to reach the Rhine
november 24: French capture Strasbourg
december 4: Civil War in Greece; Athens placed under martial law
december 16-27: Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes
december 17: Waffen-SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy
december 26: Patton relieves Bastogne
december 27: Soviet troops besiege Budapest
1945
january 1-17: Germans withdraw from the Ardennes
january 16: U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge
january 17: Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland
january 26: Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
february 4-11: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
february 13/14: Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids
march 6: Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary
march 7: Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
march 30: Soviet troops capture Danzig
april 1: U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in northern Italy.
april 12: Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman becomes President
april 16: Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg
april 18: German forces in the Ruhr surrender
april 21: Soviets reach Berlin
april 28: Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice
april 29: U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.
april 30: Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
may 2: German troops in Italy surrender
may 7: Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
may 8: V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
may 9: Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army
may 23: SS-Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide; German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned
june 5: Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government
june 26: United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
july 1: American, British, and French troops move into Berlin
july 16: First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins
july 26: Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister
august 6: First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan
august 8: Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria
august 9: Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
august 14: Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
september 2: Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
october 24: United Nations is born
thank you for reading my article
made by Mr. Nixon
4 commentaires sur “La 2ème Guerre Mondiale – Article écrit en Anglais”
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