WAR+IN+EUROPE

**1918 ** **Nov 8/9 ** - [|The Beer Hall Putsch.] **July 18 ** - [|Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.] **1933 ** See also -  **[|The Rise of Hitler - from Unknown to Dictator of Germany]** **1934 ** **1935 ** **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1936 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1937 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1938 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">See also - <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **[|Holocaust Timeline]** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes">               <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 11 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|World War One ends with German defeat.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1919 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 28 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - League of Nations founded. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 28 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1921 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 29 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist 'Nazi' Party.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1923 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1925 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1926 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 8 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germany admitted to League of Nations.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1929 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 29 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1930 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 14 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1932 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 8 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 30 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 27 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|The Reichstag burns.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 12 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 23 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 1 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 10 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazis burn books in Germany.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In June **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 14 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazi party declared only party in Germany.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 14 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germany quits the League of Nations.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 30 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|The "Night of the Long Knives."]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 25 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 2 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German President Hindenburg dies.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 19 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 16 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 15 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 10 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 7 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German troops occupy the Rhineland.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 9 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 18 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Civil war erupts in Spain.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 1 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Olympic games begin in Berlin.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 1 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Franco declared head of Spanish State.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 11 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet leader Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 5 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 12/13 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 12 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German military mobilizes.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 30 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 15 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|German troops occupy the Sudetenland]; Czech government resigns.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 9/10 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 30, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 15/16 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 28, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Spanish Civil war ends.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 22, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 23, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 25, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 31, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 1, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis invade Poland.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 3, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 4, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 5, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - United States proclaims neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 10, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 17, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets invade Poland. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 27, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Warsaw surrenders to Nazis]; [|Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 29, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In Oct **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 8, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 30, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets attack Finland.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 14, 1939 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 8, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rationing begins in Britain.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 12, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 16, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 9, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 10, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 15, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Holland surrenders to the Nazis.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 26, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 28, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Belgium surrenders to the Nazis. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 3, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans bomb Paris; [|Dunkirk evacuation ends.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 23, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Hitler tours Paris.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 25/26 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First British air raid on Berlin. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 15, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[|Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 29/30 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[|Massive German air raid on London.] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 1, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 22, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In June **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 31, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 7, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor]; [|Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In April **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 10, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 12, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 5, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 14-24 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt.] During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with an unconditional German surrender. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 18, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 19, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 11, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 4, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|SS Reichsführer Himmler gives speech at Posen.] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 15, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 6, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|D-Day landings.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 18, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|U.S. troops reach St. Lô.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 25-30 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô). **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 19, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Resistance uprising in Paris. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 25, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Liberation of Paris.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 21, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Massive German surrender at Aachen.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 16-27 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 4-11 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 7, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 12, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Allies liberate Buchenwald] and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Truman becomes President. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 29, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 7, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 9, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.] **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 20, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[|Statistics of World War II]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 10, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 14, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Germans enter Paris.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 16, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 18, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich]; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 22, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - France signs an armistice with the Nazis.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 28, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Britain recognizes Gen. Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 1, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 5, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 10, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Battle of Britain begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 23, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 3-19 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 13, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 15, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 17, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 23/24 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First German air raids on Central London.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 3, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hitler plans Operation Sealion (the invasion of Britain).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 7, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|German Blitz against England begins.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 13, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Italians invade Egypt.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 16, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - United States military conscription bill passed.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 27, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 7, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German troops enter Romania.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 12, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans postpone Operation Sealion until Spring of 1941.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 28, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Italy invades Greece.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 5, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 10/11 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - A torpedo bomber raid cripples the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 14/15 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans bomb Coventry, England.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 20, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hungary joins the Axis Powers.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 22, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 23, 1940 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Romania joins the Axis Powers.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 9/10 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 22, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 11, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 12, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 14, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 7, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British forces arrive in Greece.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 11, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 27, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 3, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 6, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 14, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel attacks Tobruk.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 17, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 27, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 10, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 10/11 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 15, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 24, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 27, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 4, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 8, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 14, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 28, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans capture Minsk.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 3, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 10, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 12, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 14, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British occupy Syria.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 26, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 1, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 14, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 20, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 1, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 3, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 19, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Nazis take Kiev.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 29, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 2, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 16, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans take Odessa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 24, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans take Kharkov.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 30, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans reach Sevastopol.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 13, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 20, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans take Rostov.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 27, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops retake Rostov.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 5, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- German attack on Moscow is abandoned.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 6, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 8, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|United States] and Britain declare war on Japan.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 11, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Germany declares war on the United States.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 16, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 19, 1941 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hitler takes complete command of the German Army.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 1, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 13, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 20, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 21, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel's counter-offensive from El Agheila begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 26, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 23, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 8, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German summer offensive begins in the Crimea.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 26, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 27, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 30, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First thousand bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In June **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 4, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Heydrich dies of wounds.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 5, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans besiege Sevastopol.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 21, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel captures Tobruk.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 25, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Eisenhower arrives in London.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 30, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 1-30 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First Battle of El Alamein.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 3, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans take Sevastopol.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 5, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 9, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 22, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 7, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 17, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First all-American [|air attack] in Europe.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 23, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Massive German air raid on Stalingrad.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 2, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 13, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Battle of Stalingrad begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 18, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 1, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 8, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 11, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 19, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 2, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 13, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Rommel withdraws from El Agheila.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 16, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 17, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - 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.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 31, 1942 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 2/3 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 10, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 23, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 27, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 2, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 8, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops take Kursk.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 14-25 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 16, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets re-take Kharkov.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 2, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 15, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans re-capture Kharkov.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 16-20 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant [|ships sunk] by German U-boats.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 20-28 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Montgomery's Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 6/7 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 7, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies take Tunisia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 13, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 16, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 16/17 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British air raid on the Ruhr.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 22, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Dönitz suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 10, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - 'Pointblank' directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 5, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 9/10 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Allies land in Sicily.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 19, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies bomb Rome.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 22, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Americans capture Palermo, Sicily.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 24, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British bombing raid on Hamburg.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 25/26 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 27/28 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 12-17 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans evacuate Sicily.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 17, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany; Allies reach Messina, Sicily.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 23, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 8, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Italian surrender is announced.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 9, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 11, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans occupy Rome.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 12, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Germans rescue Mussolini.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 23, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 1, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies enter Naples, Italy.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 13, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 6, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 18, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Large British air raid on Berlin.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 28, 1943 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 24-26 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 6, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops advance into Poland.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 17, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|First attack toward Cassino, Italy.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 22, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies land at Anzio.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 27, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 15-18 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 16, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 4, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 18, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an [|air raid] on Hamburg, Germany.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 8, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 9, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 11, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 12, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans surrender in the Crimea.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 15, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 25, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans retreat from Anzio.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 5, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies enter Rome.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 9, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 10, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 13, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 22, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 27, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 3, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 9, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - British and Canadian troops capture Caen.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 20, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 24, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 28, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops take Brest-Litovsk. U.S. troops take [|Coutances].
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 1, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 4, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 7, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 15, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 19/20 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet offensive in the Balkans begins with an attack on Romania.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 20, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 29, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Slovak uprising begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 31, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops take Bucharest.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 1-4 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 4, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 13, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 17, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Operation Market Garden begins] (Allied airborne assault on [|Holland]).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 26, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Soviet troops occupy Estonia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 2, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 10-29 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops capture Riga.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 14, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies liberate Athens; Rommel commits suicide.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 30, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 20, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - French troops drive through the 'Beffort Gap' to reach the Rhine.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nov 24, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - French capture Strasbourg.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 4, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Civil War in Greece; Athens placed under martial law.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 17, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Waffen SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 26, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Patton relieves [|Bastogne].
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dec 27, 1944 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops besiege Budapest.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 1-17 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Germans withdraw from the Ardennes.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 16, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 17, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops capture Warsaw.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jan 26, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Feb 13/14 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 6, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">March 30, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops capture Danzig.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In April **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in salt mines.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 1, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; [|Allied offensive in North Italy.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 16, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 18, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 21, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets reach Berlin.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 28, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">April 30, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Adolf Hitler commits suicide.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 2, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - German troops in Italy surrender.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 8, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 9, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May 23, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - SS Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide; German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 5, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">June 26, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - [|United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 1, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - U.S., British, and French troops move into Berlin.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 16, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">July 26, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 6, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 8, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug 14, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sept 2, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- [|Japanese sign the surrender agreement;] [|V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 24, 1945 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">- United Nations is officially born.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #0000a0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1946 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #008040; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oct 16 **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> - Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.