Part 14 (1/2)

Nov. 30 Russia attacks Finland.

1940 March 20 Finland accepts peace with Russia.

Apr. 9 Germany occupies Denmark and attacks Norway.

May 10 Germany attacks the Netherlands and Belgium.

May 14 Capitulation of the Netherlands.

May 28 Capitulation of Belgium.

May 20-June 4: Evacuation of the British expedition force at Dunkirk.

June 10 Italy attacks France.

June 24 France concludes armistice with the Axis.

Aug.-Nov. The ”Battle of Britain”: Hitler tries to subdue Great Britain by air raids.

Oct. 28 Italy attacks Greece.

Dec. 7-11 Victory of Great Britain in North Africa.

1941 April Victory of Germany in North Africa.

April 6 Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece.

April 13 Belgrade occupied.

April 27 Athens occupied.

May 10 Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland.

June 22 Germany invades Russia.

Dec. 6 Russian counter offensive; Germany fails to take Moscow.

Dec. 7 j.a.pan attacks Pearl Harbour.

Dec. 11 Hitler declares war upon the United States.

1942 Jan. 20 The Wannsee Conference on the ”Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in Europe.

June Rommel defeats Great Britain in North Africa and captures El Alamein.

Aug. 23 Germany's sixth army reaches the Volga near Stalingrad.

Nov. 2 Montgomery breaks through at El Alamein.

Nov. 8 Allied forces land in Morocco and Algeria.

Nov. 11 Germany seizes the unoccupied zone of France.

Nov. 19 Russia launches its counter offensive near Stalingrad.

1943 Jan. 3 End of the Battle of Stalingrad.

April 19-May 16 Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

July 10 Allied forces land on Sicily.

Sept. 3 Allied forces land in Southern Italy.

Dec. The Soviet armies approach the Polish and Rumanian frontiers.

1944 June 6 The beginning of the Invasion.

July 20 Attempt on Hitler's life.

August Russia conquers Rumania.

Aug. 25 Liberation of Paris.

Sept. 3 Liberation of Brussels.

1945 Jan. 17 Russia captures Warsaw.

Feb. 13 Russia captures Budapest.

Apr. 30 Hitler commits suicide.