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Chronology
World War Ii


of Poland.
Sept. 3-Britain and France an
ROunce that state of war exists
with Germany.
April 9-Germany invades Norway
and Denmark.
May 2-Germans repel British at
tempt to invade Nazi-NOrway.
May 10-Germany invades the low
countries. Churchill becomes
prime minister.
June 2-FOur-fifths of British troops
extricated from DunkiFk.
June 10-Italy enters the war.
June IS-Nazis occupy Paris.
June 22-French accept Germans
peace terms.
April 6-Germans invade YugOslaVia
and take command of Greek
Italian front.
May british driven out of
Greece.
May 1O-RudOIph Hess lands in Brit
ain by parachute.
June Herman paratrOOpers take
Crete.
June 22-Germany invades Russia.
Dec. 7-Japanese make sneak at
tack on Pearl HarbOr, the Phil
ippines and Hong Kong.
Dec. So. S. declares war on Axis
countries.
April 18-DOOlittIe leads American
Riers in bombing of Tokyo and
other Japanese cities.
May 6--COrTegidOr SurrenderS.
May 9-American forces defeat Jap
anese feet in the Coral sea.
July british Eighth army halts
ROmmel at Ell Alamein.
Aug. 19--COmmand0s raid Dieppe.
Oct. 26-Battle of SOIOmOns starts.
Nov. 8-U. S. troops land in North
Africa.
Feb. 3-Germans lose the battle Of
Stalingrad.
May 12-Tunis and Bizerte fall, end
ing German resistance in North
Africa.
July 10-Allies invade Sicily.
July 25-MussOlini out, BadOgliO be-
coming premier.
Sept. 3-AIlies land in southern IT.
ally.
Sept. 8-Italy surrenders uncOndi-
tiOnalIy.
Nov. 2O-Americans invade Gilberts,
Maxim and Tarawa.
Nov. 22-ROOsevelt, Churchill and
Chang Kai-shek meet at Cairo.
Nov. 28-ROOsevelt, Churchill and
Stain meet at Teheran.
1914
Jan. 22-Fifth army troops establish
AnziO beachhead.
Jan. 31-Amerieans invade Marshall
Islands.
Feb. 16-Pacific feet attacks Truk
with heavy Japanese sea and air
losses.
Feb. 29-YankS invade Admiralty
Islands, Overrunning Los Negroes.
Mar. 4First All-American air raid
smashes Berlin.
Mar. 15--AlIies level Casino.
Mar. S0-Red army drives into
Romania.
Apr. 10-RedS recapture Odessa,
last major Russian city in hands
of Nazis.
Apr. 22-U. S. troops land along $50
mile front on Dutch New Guinea.
May S-Russians recapture SevastO-
pol and the Crimea.
June 4-ROme falls.
June 6-ANies begin invasion Of
France.
June 15-U. S. invades Marianas.
June 16-German robot planes at
tack England.
June 17-French invade Elba.
June 26-American troops enter
CherbOurg; Russians in Vitebsk.
June 29-Yanks bomb Bucharest.
July 3-RedS take MinSk.
July 9ECaen falls to British troops.
July 19-LeghOrn, AncOna fall to
Americans.
July 21-U. S. troops invade Guam.
July 30-RuSsianS reach East Prus-
sian territory.
Aug. 3-Rennes taken by Amer
leans.
Aug. 5-AmericanS enter Brest.
Aug. 7-RuSsians seize Polish Gall
cha oil fields.
Aug. difference freed by Allies.
Aug. 15-Allied troops invade south
ern France.
Aug. 22-Romania sues for peace.
Aug. 25-Paris liberated.
Sept. 1--Allies overrun World War
battle fronts.
Sept. 9-Russia grants Bulgaria an
armiStice.
Oct. 1-Calais, French channel port,
falls to Allies.
Oct. 11-Russians reach East Prus-
sian border.
Oct. 17-U. S. troops enter Aachen,
important German border city.
Oct. 20-American forces under Gen
eraI Macarthur invade Philip
pines.
Nov. ALI German forces driven
from Greece.
Nov. 20-French troops reach Rhine
river in drive for Belf0rt Gap.
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