1939 - 1945 The
Second World War.
Bombing of British cities, compulsory military service
and food rationing were brought in. |
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 Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia. |
1937 |
7 luglio -  Japan invades  Cina. |
1938 |
Germany marches into  Austria and takes it over. |
1939 |
Marzo -Germany takes over  Czechoslovakia.
Settembre. - Germany invades  Polonia |
3 settembre - The Prime Minister of  Gran Bretagna, Neville Chamberlain, declares war on Germany.
 Francia,  Australia e  New Zealand also declares war on  Germania.
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| 6 sett. - South Africa declares war on Germany. |
10 sett. -  Canada declares war on Germany. |
17 settembre. - The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
30 Nov. The Soviet Union invades  Finlandia. |
1940 |
9 Apr. - Germany invades  Norway and  Danimarca. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. |
 May 10 - Winston
Churchill becomes the new British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain. |
May 10 - Germany attacks western Europe -  Lussemburgo,  Holland and  Belgio.
Luxemburg surrenders to the Germans |
| May 12 - The German army enters Francia |
May 14  Holland surrenders to the Germans. |
 May 14 - The Local Defence Volunteers (Dad's Army) is created in Britain. It was later called the Guardia di casa |
| May 27 - The evacuation of 340,000 soldiers of the Britannici e French armies from the beaches of Dunkirk. |
| May 28 - Belgio riscatti to the Germans |
| Giugno 4 - The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk. |
| Giugno 9 - Norway surrenders to the Germans |
| Giugno 10 - L'Italia entra in guerra and
declares war on Britain and Francia |
| Giugno 14 - The German army enters and took over Paris. |
| 30 giugno 1940 (until the Liberation on 9 May 1945) German troops take over the Channel Islands, the only British soil occupied by Germany |
| Giugno 21 - Italy invades southern France. |
| Giugno 22 - German troups conquer most of Francia. France surrenders to the Germans |
| 9 luglio - RAF Bomber Command start night raids on Germany |
 10th luglio - Battle of Britain inizia |
7 settembre - Il progetto Londra Blitz inizio |
13 settembre. - Italy invades British-controlled  Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya. |
| 20 settembre. - Germany, Italia, e Japan sign the Patto tripartito. |
Ottobre - Italy invades  Grecia |
Novembre -  Slovakia (November 23),  Hungary (November 20), and  Romania (November 22) join the Axis. |
1941 |
Marzo -  Bulgaria joins the Axis. |
6 aprile - Germany invades  Yugoslavia and
Grecia. |
| May 10 - German air raid damages the House of Commons in London. |
| Giugno 22 - Germany invades Russia |
7 dicembre. - The Japanese attack the  USA Naval Base at Pearl Harbour,  Hawaii |
| 8 dic. - Il United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. |
11 dic. - Germany
and Italy declare war on the United States
United States formally declares declares war on Germany and Italia. |
25 dic -  Hong Kong surrenders to Giappone. |
1942 |
2 gennaio - Japan captures Manila in the
 Filippine |
15 febbraio - Il Japan captures  Singapore |
| May 5 - The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Stati Uniti e Japanese navies |
| May 30 - Anglo-Americans start bombing Germany |
| 8 novembre - Britannici e U.S. troops win back North Africa |
| 11 - 13 Dec. - Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the Stati Uniti. |
1943 |
19 aprile - Maggio Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in occupied Poland
The largest single revolt by Jews against the Nazis during WW2.
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| May 16 - Il Dam Buster Raid |
| 28 sett. - Italy surrenders |
| 10 ottobre. - Italy swaps sides and declares war on Germany |
1944 |
| Giugno 4 - Rome is freed by the Allies |
Giugno 6 - Britannici e U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
This day is known as D-day |
| Giugno 12 - The first of Germany's terror weapons, the V1 (doodlebug), falls in England at Swanscombe in Kent |
| 15 agosto. -
Allied forces land in southern France near Nice. |
| 20 agosto - Allied troops reach Parigi. |
Aug/Sept - Warsaw Uprising in occupied Poland, the largest
ever civilian revolt in history, by the Polish population against the
Nazis. |
| 11 sett. - U.S. troops enter Germany |
| 20 ott. - U.S. troops land in the Filippine. |
| 16 dic. - The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the La battaglia dei giganti, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. |
1945 |
12 Jan. - The  Soviets liberate Warsaw and Krakow in Polonia. |
| 13 feb. - The Soviets capture Budapest, capital city of Ungheria. |
| 16 aprile - Il Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin. |
| 30 aprile - Hitler commits suicide |
| 7 May Germany surrenders to the western Allies. |
| May 8 Winston Churchill announces VE Day - Victory in Europe. British
people wave flags, sing and dance in the streets. WW2 ends in Europe |
| May 9 - Germany surrenders to the Soviets. |
| Creation
of the Welfare State introduced social security payments for the unemployed. |
| 6 agosto. - The first bomba atomica viene lasciato cadere da The United States on Hiroshima killing 78,000 citizens |
| 8 agosto - Il Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria. |
| 9 Aug. - The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. |
| 14 agosto - Japan surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. VJ Day (Victory in Japan) |
| 2 sett. - Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II. |
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