| Chronology of the Second World War |
Date |
| The German Army invades Czechoslovakia. |
15th March, 1939 |
| Edouard Daladier announces that France intends to increase defence spending. |
17th March, 1939 |
| Adolf Hitler demands the free city of Danzig in Poland. |
21st March, 1939 |
| Britain and France pledge to support Poland. |
29th March, 1939 |
| Italy invades and occupies Albania. |
7th April, 1939 |
| Britain and France pledge to support Romania and Greece. |
13th April, 1939 |
| Soviet Union proposes a triple alliance with Britain and France. |
18th April, 1939 |
| Sweden, Norway and Finland reject Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts. |
17th May, 1939 |
| Winston Churchill urges the government to form a military alliance with the Soviet Union. |
9th July, 1939 |
| Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact. |
23rd August, 1939. |
| Britain and Poland sign a treaty of mutal assistance. |
25th August, 1939. |
| The German Army invades Poland and annexes the free city of Danzig. |
1st September, 1939 |
| Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. |
3rd September, 1939 |
| Parliament passes the National Services (Armed Forces) Act. |
3rd September, 1939 |
| Neville Chamberlain appoints Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. |
3rd September, 1939 |
| The German Army reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish border with the Soviet Union. |
17th September, 1939 |
| The Red Army invades Poland. |
17th September, 1939 |
| Reinhard Heydrich announces that all Jews in Poland are to be imprisoned in Ghettos. |
21st September, 1939 |
| The Polish Army surrenders in Warsaw. |
27th September, 1939 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the USA will remain neutral in the European war. |
3rd October, 1939 |
| The British battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-boat captained by Gunther Prien. |
14th October, 1939 |
| The Schutz Staffeinel (SS) establish the first Jewish Ghetto in Piotrkow. |
28th October, 1939 |
| Germany formally annexes western Poland into the German Reich. |
1st November, 1939 |
| Joseph Stalin formally annexes eastern Poland into the Soviet Union. |
2nd November, 1939 |
| The Red Army invades Finland. |
30th November, 1939 |
| The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. |
14th December, 1939 |
| The Red Army attacks the Mannerheim Line in Finland. |
11th February, 1940 |
| Finland signs a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. |
12th March, 1940 |
| Paul Reynaud replaces Edouard Daladier as prime minister of France. |
20th March, 1940 |
| Britain and France agree not to sign a separate peace with Nazi Germany. |
28th March, 1940 |
| Neville Chamberlain appoints Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production. |
3rd April, 1940 |
| Soldiers in the British Army land at Namsos in Norway. |
8th April, 1940 |
| The German Army invades Denmark and Norway. |
9th April, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler launches his Western Offensive and invades France. |
10th May, 1940 |
| Neville Chamberlain resigns as prime minister and is replaced by Winston Churchill. |
10th May, 1940 |
| Anthony Eden announces the formation of the Home Guard. |
14th May, 1940 |
| Netherlands surrenders and Queen Wilhelmina flees to England. |
14th May, 1940 |
| Parliament grants Winston Churchill and his government wide emergency powers. |
22nd May, 1940 |
| General Gerd von Rundstedt and the German Army pierce the French defences at Sedan. |
23rd May, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in France and Belgium to halt their advance. |
23rd May, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in resume their advance into France and Belgium. |
25th May, 1940 |
| Evacuation from Dunkirk begins. |
27th May, 1940 |
| Belgium surrender to the German Army and Leopold III is arrested. |
28th May, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Stafford Cripps as British ambassador to the Soviet Union. |
30th May, 1940 |
| The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk. |
4th June, 1940 |
| J. B. Priestley gives first BBC radio broadcast. |
5th June, 1940 |
| Benito Mussolini declares war on the Allies. |
10th June, 1940 |
| Gotthard Heinrici and the 12th Corps break through the Maginot Line. |
14th June, 1940 |
| The German Army enters Paris. |
14th June, 1940 |
| The USA rejects France's renewed appeal for help against the German Army. |
15th June, 1940 |
| Henri-Philippe Petain begins to negotiate an armistice with Germany. |
17th June, 1940 |
| France signs armistice with Nazi Germany and is divided into two zones. |
22nd June, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill recognizes Charles De Gaulle as leader of the Free French. |
28th June, 1940 |
| The Royal Navy destroys most of the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir. |
3rd July, 1940 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt bans the shipment of strategic materials to Japan. |
5th July, 1940 |
| Ark Royal sinks Dunkerqueat at Mers-el-Kébir. |
6th July, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe launch the start of the Battle of Britain. |
10th July, 1940 |
| Henri-Philippe Petain becomes president of Vichy France. |
11th July, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill invites Hugh Dalton to establish the Special Operations Executive. |
16th July, 1940 |
| The Italian Army advances into British Somaliland. |
3rd August, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe began attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft, airfields and installations. |
13th August, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe carry out a all-night bombing raid on London and begins the Blitz. |
23rd August, 1940 |
| The Royal Air Force bombs Berlin. |
25th August, 1940 |
| Rodolfo Graziani and Italian Army make a rapid advance into Egypt. |
13th September, 1940 |
| City of Bernares sunk by a German torpedo killing 73 children on the way to Canada. |
17th September, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill decides to abandon the attempt to capture the port of Dakar. |
25th September, 1940 |
| Vidkun Quisling installed by the Germans as prime minister of Norway. |
25th September, 1940 |
| Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan signs the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Italy. |
27th September, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Kingsley Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
3rd October, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Ernest Bevin as Minister of Labour. |
3rd October, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion. |
12th October, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler meets Francisco Franco an attempt to persuade Spain to join the war. |
23rd October, 1940 |
| The Mustang P-51B makes its first flight. |
26th October, 1940 |
| The Italian Army invades Greece. |
28th October, 1940 |
| The Royal Navy attacks the Italian Navy at Taranto. |
11th November, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing 380 people and injuring 865. |
14th November, 1940 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany. |
16th November, 1940 |
| Airbourbe radar successfully used by the Royal Air Force for the first time. |
18th November, 1940 |
| British Army captures Tobruk. |
22nd January, 1941 |
| Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact and joins forces with Germany, Italy and Japan. |
1st March, 1941 |
| The British Army invades Italian-controlled Ethiopia. |
7th March, 1941 |
| US Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act. |
11th March, 1941 |
| General Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War. |
24th March, 1941 |
| General Andrew Cunningham, commander of allied forces in East Africa, enters Addis Ababa.. |
6th April, 1941 |
| Italian Army in Ethiopia surrenders to Allied forces. |
6th April, 1941 |
| Germany, Italy and Bulgaria invade Yugoslavia. |
10th April, 1941 |
| General Paul von Kleist and the 1st Panzer Group enter Belgrade. |
12th April, 1941 |
| Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan signs non-aggression pact with Soviet Union. |
14th April, 1941 |
| Yugoslavia surrenders to the German Army. |
17th April, 1941 |
| Marmaduke Pattle, RAF's leading war ace, killed while fighting in Greece. |
20th April, 1941 |
| Greece surrenders to the German Army. |
21st April, 1941 |
| General Erwin Rommel and his army enter Egypt. |
25th April, 1941 |
| The Luftwaffe destroy the House of Commons in Westminster. |
10th May, 1941 |
| Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland and is arrested by the authorities. |
10th May, 1941 |
| Frank Whittle's jet-propelled Gloster E28 takes its first flight. |
15th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck sinks the British battlecruiser Hood. |
24th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck attacked and sunk by the Royal Navy. |
27th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck is sunk by the British Navy. |
26th May 1941 |
| The British government introduces plans to ration clothes and furniture. |
1st June, 1941 |
| Syria invaded by British Army and Free French forces. |
8th June, 1941 |
| Operation Punishment comes to and end. |
22nd June, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. |
22nd June, 1941 |
| Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. |
25th June, 1941 |
| Hungary declares war on the Soviet Union. |
27th June, 1941 |
| Armistice signed in Syria. |
12th July, 1941 |
| Soviet Union and Britain sign an agreement of mutual aid. |
12th July, 1941 |
| Richard Acland launches the Common Wealth Party. |
26th July, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Leningrad. |
12th August, 1941 |
| Military forces from Soviet Union and Britain invade Iran. |
25th August, 1941 |
| The German Army captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in the Soviet Union. |
20th September, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Moscow. |
6th October, 1941 |
| The Royal Air Force bombs the German city of Nuremberg. |
13th October, 1941 |
| General Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan. |
16th October, 1941 |
| Masha Bruskina, first Soviet partisan to be executed in public by the German Army. |
26th October, 1941 |
| The British aircraft carrier, Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar. |
13th November, 1941 |
| Emperor Hirohito officially approves the attack on the United States. |
1st December, 1941 |
| Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. |
5th December, 1941 |
| Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. |
7th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invade Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines. |
8th December, 1941 |
| Japanese forces sink the Prince of Wales and Repulse off the east coast of Malaya. |
10th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invade Burma. |
11th December, 1941 |
| America First Committee is dissolved. |
11th December, 1941 |
| The National Service Act, that conscripted unmarried women, was passed by Parliament. |
18th December, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler sacks Heinrich von Brauchitsch as commander in chief of the German Army. |
19th December, 1941 |
| Japanese Army capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines. |
22nd December, 1941 |
| Hong Kong surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison |
25th December, 1941 |
| Japanese Army capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Malaya. |
11th January, 1942 |
| Reinhard Heydrich organizes the Wannsee Conference. |
20th January, 1942 |
| General Arthur Percival orders retreat to Singapore. |
25th January, 1942 |
| USA government announces the establishment of relocation camps for Japanese Americans. |
29th January, 1942 |
| Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore |
8th February, 1942 |
| The Scharnhorst and the Prinz Eugen start their successfully break out of Brest. |
12th February, 1942 |
| General Arthur Percival surrenders Singapore to Japanese. |
15th February, 1942 |
| Japanese Air Force bomb Darwin in Australia. |
19th February, 1942 |
| General Douglas MacArthur and the United States forces leave the Philippines |
22nd February, 1942 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Lubeck in Germany. |
23rd March, 1942 |
| Allied raid on St Nazaire. |
27th March, 1942 |
| Hermann Balck and the 3rd Panzer Division captures Salonika. |
9th April, 1942 |
| George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta. |
9th April, 1942 |
| The United States Air Force bomb Tokyo. |
18th April, 1942 |
| Pierre Laval becomes minister of foreign affairs in Vichy France. |
18th April, 1942 |
| The Luftwaffe start bombing Exeter, Bath and other historic cities in Britain. |
23rd April, 1942 |
| Japanese Army capture Mandalay in Burma. |
1st May 1942 |
| Start of the battle of Coral Sea. |
6th May, 1942 |
| Reinhard Heydrich is shot in Prague by Czech resistance fighters. |
27th May, 1942 |
| Arthur Harris orders the first 1000 bomber attack on Germany at Cologne. |
30th May, 1942 |
| Start of the battle of Midway. |
3rd June, 1942 |
| The Gestapo destroy the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia. |
10th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie at Gazala. |
14th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel and the German Army captures Tobruk. |
21st June, 1942 |
| General Erich von Manstein captures Sevastopol on the Black Sea. |
2nd July, 1942 |
| Donald Bennett appointed as commander of the Pathfinder Force. |
5th July, 1942 |
| Japanese Army land on Guadalcanal. |
7th July, 1942 |
| The Messerschmitt Me 262 makes its first test flight. |
18th July, 1942 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany. |
26th July, 1942 |
| Alexander Vandegrift and the US Marines land on Guadalcanal. |
7th August, 1942 |
| The US Marines use the Navajo Code for the first time. |
7th August, 1942 |
| General Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the British 8th Army. |
13th August, 1942 |
| The Flying Fortress begins making first daylight bombing raids on Europe. |
17th August, 1942 |
| 5,000 Canadian and 1,000 British troops raid the port of Dieppe in France. |
19th August, 1942 |
| The German Army enters Stalingrad. |
24th August, 1942 |
| The Duke of Kent dies in an air crash in Scotland. |
25th August, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam el Halfa. |
30th August, 1942 |
| The B-29 Stratafortress makes its first flight. |
21st September, 1942 |
| General Bernard Montgomery orders counter-attack at El Alamein. |
23rd October, 1942 |
| Thomas Kinkaid faces Nobutake Kondo at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. |
26th October, 1942 |
| Hornet is sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. |
27th October, 1942 |
| The German Army defeated at El Alamein. |
4th November, 1942 |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower,leads the invasion of Tunisia. |
8th November, 1942 |
| Admiral Jean Darlan surrenders French North Africa to Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
11th November, 1942 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the occupation of Vichy France. |
11th November, 1942 |
| The British Army recaptures Tobruk. |
12th November, 1942 |
| Admiral William Halsey leads successful naval campain at Guadalcana. |
13th November, 1942 |
| Erich von Manstein and the 4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to relieve the 6th Army. |
12th December, 1942 |
| Admiral Jean Darlan assassinated by member of French Resistance in Algiers. |
24th December, 1942 |
| The Luftwaffe renews its air attacks on London. |
18th January, 1943 |
| The Allies capture Tripoli. |
23rd January, 1943 |
| British and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock bombing of Nazi Germany. |
25th February, 1943 |
| Jurgen von Arnium replaces Erwin Rommel as commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps. |
9th March, 1943 |
| Germany announces the discovery of 4,443 Polish officers at Katyn in the Soviet Union. |
13th April, 1943 |
| Yitzhak Zuckerman leads the Warsaw Uprising. |
19th April, 1943 |
| The Allies capture Tunis. |
7th May, 1943 |
| Over 130,000 members of the German Army surrender in Tunisia. |
13th May, 1943 |
| Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the Dambusters Raid. |
16th May, 1943 |
| Jean Moulin holds the first meeting of the Conseil National de la Resistance in Paris. |
27th May, 1943 |
| Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo. |
8th July, 1943 |
| A German aircraft bombs Whitehall Cinema in East Grinstead and kills 235 people. |
9th July, 1943 |
| Allied troops land on German-occupied Sicily. |
10th July, 1943 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders further bombing of Hamburg. |
24th July, 1943 |
| Victor Emmanuel III dismisses Benito Mussolini from office in Italy. |
25th July, 1943 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Kharkov. |
23rd August, 1943 |
| Bernard Montgomery and the 8th Army land at Reggio in Italy. |
3rd September, 1943 |
| The Tirpitz and Scharnhorst bombard the Spitzbergen weather station. |
7th September, 1943 |
| Benito Mussolini is rescued from prison by a team led by Otto Skorzeny. |
12th September, 1943 |
| Benito Mussolini establishes a new fascist government at Salo on Lake Garda, Italy. |
15th September, 1943 |
| Italy's new prime minister, Pietro Badoglio, signs armistice with the Allies. |
23rd September, 1943 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Smolensk. |
25th September, 1943 |
| General Mark Clark and 5th Army capture Naples. |
13th October, 1943 |
| Italy's prime minister, Pietro Badoglio, declares war on Germany. |
13th October, 1943 |
| Evans Carlson and the 2nd Raider Battalion land in Guadalcana. |
4th November, 1943 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Kiev. |
6th November, 1943 |
| The intensive bombing of Berlin by the RAF begins. |
18th November, 1943 |
| Allied invasion of the Gilbert Islands. |
20th November, 1943 |
| Eduard Benes and Joseph Stalin sign a Soviet-Czech peace treaty in Moscow. |
12th December, 1943 |
| The Scharnhorst is sunk by the Duke of York off the coast of Norway. |
26th December, 1943 |
| Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Tehran in Iran. |
28th December, 1943 |
| General John Lucas and US 5th Army land at Anzio. |
22nd January, 1944 |
| Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands. |
31st January, 1944 |
| Allied forces bomb monastery at Monte Cassino. |
15th February, 1944 |
| The Luftwaffe make their heaviest raids on London since May 1941. |
19th February, 1944 |
| Merrill's Marauders begin their first campaign in Burma. |
24th February, 1944 |
| Orde Wingate launches Operation Thursday in Burma. |
5th March, 1944 |
| United States Air Force begin daylight air attacks on Berlin. |
6th March, 1944 |
| Orde Wingate killed in plane crash in Burma. |
14th March, 1944 |
| Pierre Brossolette, one of the leaders of the French Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo. |
22nd March, 1944 |
| Paul von Kleist and Erich von Manstein recalled to Germany and sacked by Adolf Hitler. |
29th March, 1944 |
| Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid. |
30th March, 1944 |
| The German Army evacuates Sevastopol. |
9th May, 1944 |
| Allied troops take Monte Cassino. |
18th May, 1944 |
| General Mark Clark and Allied troops capture Rome. |
4th June, 1944 |
| Second Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy. |
6th June, 1944 |
| Pietro Badoglio resigns and Invanoe Bonomi forms new government in Italy. |
9th June, 1944 |
| The SS carry out a revenge attack on the Maquis at Oradour-sur-Glane. |
10th June, 1944 |
| First V1 Flying bomb lands on Britain. |
13th June, 1944 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Minsk. |
3rd July, 1944 |
| Allied troops capture Caen in Normandy. |
9th July, 1944 |
| Hideki Tojo resigns as prime minister of Japan. |
18th July, 1944 |
| July Plot against Adolf Hitler fails. |
20th July, 1944 |
| Polish resistance forces in Warsaw rebel against German occupation. |
1st August, 1944 |
| V1 Flying bomb brought down by a Gloster Meteor, Britain's first jet-fighter. |
4th August, 1944 |
| Allied troops land on the French coast between the ports of Toulon and Cannes. |
14th August, 1944 |
| Ernst Thaelmann is executed at Buchenwald. |
18th August, 1944 |
| United States Army enters Paris. |
24th August, 1944 |
| Romania declares war on Germany. |
25th August, 1944 |
| British troops enter Brussels, the capital of Belgium. |
4th September, 1944 |
| First V2 Rocket lands on Britain. |
8th September, 1944 |
| The French provisional government abolishes the Vichy legislature. |
10th September, 1944 |
| Allied troops enter Nazi Germany. |
11th September, 1944 |
| Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Quebec to discuss post-war Germany. |
11th September, 1944 |
| Romania signs an armistice with the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. |
12th September, 1944 |
| Start of Operation Market Garden. |
17th September, 1944 |
| Finland signs an armistice with the Soviet Union. |
19th September, 1944 |
| Allied troops forced to withdraw from Arnhem. |
25th September, 1944 |
| Adolf Hitler calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60 in Germany for army service. |
25th September, 1944 |
| Canadian troops liberate the French port of Calais. |
28th September, 1944 |
| The German Army crushes Warsaw Uprising. |
2nd October, 1944 |
| The British Army land in German-occupied Greece. |
4th October, 1944 |
| The Red Army enters Czechoslovakia. |
6th October, 1944 |
| Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Moscow. |
9th October, 1944 |
| Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide by the Nazi government. |
14th October, 1944 |
| General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines. |
20th October, 1944 |
| General Walter Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte. |
22nd October, 1944 |
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. |
24th October, 1944 |
| Bulgaria signs an armistice with the Allies. |
28th October, 1944 |
| The Tirpitz is sunk after being hit by Tallboy bombs. |
12th November, 1944 |
| The Red Army establish new government in Hungary. |
21st December, 1944 |
| The British 14th Army begin a new offensive in Burma. |
3rd January, 1945 |
| US forces make landings on the island of Luzon. |
9th January, 1945 |
| The Red Army liberate Warsaw. |
17th January, 1945 |
| The Red Army capture Budapest. |
18th January, 1945 |
| Start of Operation Ten-Go. |
2nd February, 1945 |
| Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at the Yalta Conference. |
4th February, 1945 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Dresden. |
13th February, 1945 |
| United States Army land on Iwo Jima. |
19th February, 1945 |
| United States Army capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines. |
28th February, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force creates firestorm in Tokyo. |
9th March, 1945 |
| British and Indian troops capture Mandalay in Burma. |
20th March, 1945 |
| United States Army cross the River Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim. |
22nd March, 1945 |
| Last V2 Rocket lands on Britain. |
27th March, 1945 |
| The Red Army enters Austria. |
29th March, 1945 |
| United States Army land on Okinawa. |
1st April, 1945 |
| A 700 plane kamikaze attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers.. |
6th April, 1945 |
| The Japanese giant battleship Yamato sunk off Okinawa. |
7th April, 1945 |
| General Harold Alexander and British forces mount a new offensive in northern Italy. |
9th April, 1945 |
| Pastor Dietrich Bonhoffer is hanged by the Nazi authorities. |
9th April, 1945 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and is replaced by Harry S. Truman. |
12th April, 1945 |
| Liberation of Belsen and Buchenwald. |
13th April, 1945 |
| Ernie Pyle, America's most famous war journalist, killed by Japanese sniper. |
17th April, 1945 |
| Liberation of Dachau. |
25th April , 1945 |
| United Nations Conference held in San Francisco. |
25th April , 1945 |
| Benito Mussolini is executed in Milan by Italian partisans. |
28th April , 1945 |
| German forces in Italy surrender to the Allies. |
29th April , 1945 |
| Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide. |
30th April, 1945 |
| Joseph Goebbels commits suicide. |
1st May , 1945 |
| Commander of German troops in Berlin surrenders. |
2nd May, 1945 |
| Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands. |
2nd May, 1945 |
| Frank Messervy and his troops captures Ragoon in Burma. |
3rd May, 1945 |
| All military forces in Germany surrender to the Allies. |
4th May, 1945 |
| Denmark liberated by Allied trrops. |
5th May, 1945 |
| End of the Battle of the Atlantic. |
7th May, 1945 |
| General Alfred Jodl signs the official surrender of Germany. |
8th May, 1945 |
| Winston Churchill announces VE day. |
8th May, 1945 |
| The German Army in Czechoslovakia surrender to the Red Army. |
9th May, 1945 |
| Heinrich Himmler commits suicide. |
22nd May, 1945 |
| William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) is captured at Flensburg. |
28th May, 1945 |
| Manhattan Project scientists test atom bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
16th July, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Hiroshima. |
6th August, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Nagasaki. |
9th August , 1945 |
| General Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders army in the Philippines. |
2nd September, 1945 |
| General Douglas MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. |
2nd September, 1945 |
