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📑 Content Overview
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- The Opponents
- Reasons and Victims
- Terms
- March 1938 – Germany annexes Austria
- Sep 1938 – Munich Agreement
- March 1939 – Annexation of Czechoslovakia
- ⚔️ Sep 1939 – Attack on Poland – Beginning of War
- Sep 1939 – Poland surrenders
- Sep 1939 to May 1940 – Phoney War
- April/May 1940 – Occupation of Denmark and Norway
- ⚔️ May/June 1940 – Attack on France (Blitzkrieg)
- May/June 1940 – British evacuation at Dunkirk (France)
- June 1940 – Italy enters the War
- June 1940 – Armistice with France
- June 1940 – Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States
- July to Oct 1940 – Battle of Britain
- Oct 1940 – Italy attacks Greece
- Nov 1940 – Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis powers
- Feb 1941 – Afrika Korps in North Africa
- April 1941 – Attack on Yugoslavia
- ⚔️ June 1941 - Attack on Russia (Eastern Front)
- Oct to Dec 1941 – Battle of Moscow – Soviet counteroffensive
- Dec 1941 – Attack by Japan at Pearl Harbor
- Dec 1941 – Declaration of war USA/GB on Japan
- Dec 1941 – Germany declares war on the USA
- May 1942 – Beginning of British bombing raids on Germany
- ⚔️ Jun to Sep 1942 – Advances on the Eastern Front
- ⚔️ Nov 1942 to Feb 1943 – Battle of Stalingrad (Turning Point in the War)
- May 1943 – German defeat in North Africa
- July 1943 – Operation Citadel (Battle of Kursk)
- July 1943 – Allies take Sicily
- Sep 1943 – Italy surrenders
- Nov 1943 – Soviet Union conquers Ukraine
- Jan to June 1944 – Italy is defeated
- ⚔️ June 1944 – Allied attack at Normandy (France)
- June 1944 – Soviet Union conquers Belarus
- Aug 1944 – Liberation of France
- Dec 1944 to Jan 1945 – Battle of the Bulge
- Jan 1945 - Major offensive by the Soviet Union
- April 1945 – Red Army in Berlin
- April 1945 – Suicide of Adolf Hitler
- May 1945 – Surrender of Germany
- Aug 1945 – Atomic Bombs and Surrender of Japan