World War Two, How the World Changed Forever
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October 23–24, 1942 - British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt.
November 8, 1942 - US and British troops land in French North Africa (Algeria and Morocco in).
November 11, 1942 - Germans start occupation of Southern France.
November 23, 1942–February 2, 1943 - Soviet counterattack at Battle of Stalingrad.
May 13, 1943 - End of North African campaign.
July 10, 1943 - US and British troops land on Sicily.
July 25, 1943 - Benito Mussolini deposed. New Italian government formed under Marshall Pietro Badoglio.
September 8, 1943 - The Germans control Rome and Northern Italy, free Mussolini and establish a puppet Fascist regime under him.
January 22, 1944 - Allied troops land near Anzio, south of Rome.
March 19, 1944 - The Germans occupy Hungary.
June 4, 1944 - Allied troops liberate Rome.
June 6, 1944 - D-Day: Allied troops land on the Normandy beaches of France.
June 22, 1944 - Launch of Soviet Offensive in Belarus and Poland.
August 15, 1944 - Allied forces land in southern.
August 20–25, 1944 - Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops, liberate the French capital. By December, nearly all of France, most of Belgium, and part of the southern Netherlands are liberated.
August 23, 1944 - Romanian opposition overthrow the Antonescu regime, concludes an armistice and switches sides in the war. Bulgaria surrender on September 8. The Germans evacuate Greece, Albania, and southern Yugoslavia in October.
September 12, 1944 - Finland signs an armistice with the Soviet Union.
October 20, 1944 - US troops land in the Philippines.
December 16, 1944 - Battle of the Bulge: German final offensive in Western Europe.
January 12, 1945 - Soviet offensive in Eastern Europe; liberation of Warsaw and Krakow, invasion of Hungary, Slovakia, Austria.
March 7, 1945 - US troops cross the Rhine River.
April 16, 1945 - The Soviets reach Berlin.
April 1945 - Partisan units, led by Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Tito, capture Zagreb and topple the Ustasa regime.
April 30, 1945 - Hitler commits suicide.
May 7, 1945 - Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
May 9, 1945 - Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
May 1945 - Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands.
August 6, 1945 - The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
August 8, 1945 - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
August 9, 1945 - The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
September 2, 1945 - Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
FURTHER READING
This eBook is a simple summary of some of the main events of the World War II era. We hope that you now know some of the things you wanted to learn about when you purchased this book, and want to learn more. Here are a few books that go into more detail about various aspects of the war:
World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
Retribution and Nemesis by Max Hastings
The Oxford Companion to World War II, edited by M.R.D Foote
The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
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