World War II-Europe

Prelude to War-

1921-22-Washington Conference

1928-Kelloge-Briand Pact (peace pact)

1935 -Britain allows Germany to build up its navy (violation of Treaty of Versailles)

1936-39-Spanish Civil War

1936 -Rome-Berlin Axis

1936 -Reoccupation of the Rhineland territory lost in the Versailles Treaty. no opposition

1938 -Anschluss (Germany occupies Austria)

1938-Occupation of the Sudetenland

1938 -Munich Conference

March 1939-Remainder of Czechloslovakia is occupied

1939 -Hitler-Stalin Pact (neutrality)

Stage I

September 1, 1939 Attack on Poland

October 1939-March 1940-The phony war

April 1940- Attack of Norway by Germany

May 10, 1940-Attack of Belgium and Holland by the Germans

May 1940- Surrender of Leopold III and Belgium forces, and the Dutch

June 25, 1940- Petain signed the armistice for France separating France into Vichey France and German occupied France

August 1940- Battle Britain begins

September 1941-Battle of Britain postponed

Stage II

January 1941-Hitler sends troops to Africa to help Mussolini and to protect fuel supplies

November 1940-Romania and Hungary "join" Axis powers

March 1941-Bulgaria joins Axis powers

April 1941-Yugoslavia refuses to join and is invaded and conquered within three days

April 1941-Greece is occupied by the Germans giving them better access to Africa

June 22, 1941-Hitler invades the USSR

December 7, 1941-USA enters the war

Stage III

January 1, 1942- United States, Great Britain, USSR, 23 other countries signed the United Nations Declaration in which they pledged not to make a separate peace

November 1942-defeat of Hitler's General Rommel at the Battle of El Alemein

December !942-defeat of the German 6th army at the Battle of Stalingrad

1942-43-Retreat of German forces from USSR

July 10-1943-Invasion of Italy by the Allies

1943-44-Bombing of key production resources by the Allies throughout Germany

Stage IV

June 6, 1944-D-Day, the invasion of Allied forces onto the shores of the European continent

December 1944-Germany launches its last major offensive the Battle of the Bulge

April 1945-Berlin is occupied by the USSR

April 30, 1945-Hitler commits suicide

May 8, 1945- surrender of the German generals V-E Day

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