Chronology of the Second World War
| Chronology of the Second World War | Date |
|---|---|
| Robert Vansittart sent Lord Halifax a report, based chiefly on intelligence from Wolfgang zu Putlitz that Hitler had decided to "liquidate" Czechoslovakia. | 20th February, 1939 |
| Vernon Kell tells the Foreign Office that "Germany was going into Czechoslovakia in the next 48 hours" | 11th March, 1939 |
| Lord Halifax argues that there is no evidence that the Germans were "planning mischief in any particular quarter". | 12th March, 1939 |
| The German Army invades Czechoslovakia. | 15th March, 1939 |
| Edouard Daladier announces that France intends to increase defence spending. | 17th March, 1939 |
| Neville Chamberlain finally acknowledges to the cabinet that: "No reliance could be placed on any of the assurances given by the Nazi leaders." | 18th March, 1939 |
| Adolf Hitler demands the free city of Danzig in Poland. | 21st March, 1939 |
| Britain and France pledge to support Poland. | 29th March, 1939 |
| Lord Halifax discounts reports from Wolfgang zu Putlitz of an impending Italian invasion. | 5th April, 1939 |
| Italy invades and occupies Albania. | 7th April, 1939 |
| Britain and France pledge to support Romania and Greece. | 13th April, 1939 |
| Soviet Union proposes a triple alliance with Britain and France. | 18th April, 1939 |
| The government also published details of the reserved occupations if they exceeded the stated age. | 27th April 1939 |
| Sweden, Norway and Finland reject Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts. | 17th May, 1939 |
| Winston Churchill urges the government to form a military alliance with the Soviet Union. | 9th July, 1939 |
| Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact. | 23rd August, 1939. |
| Britain and Poland sign a treaty of mutal assistance. | 25th August, 1939. |
| The German Army invades Poland and annexes the free city of Danzig. | 1st September, 1939 |
| Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. | 3rd September, 1939 |
| Parliament passes the National Services (Armed Forces) Act. | 3rd September, 1939 |
| Neville Chamberlain appoints Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. | 3rd September, 1939 |
| The German Army reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish border with the Soviet Union. | 17th September, 1939 |
| The Red Army invades Poland. | 17th September, 1939 |
| Reinhard Heydrich announces that all Jews in Poland are to be imprisoned in Ghettos. | 21st September, 1939 |
| The Polish Army surrenders in Warsaw. | 27th September, 1939 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the USA will remain neutral in the European war. | 3rd October, 1939 |
| The British battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-boat captained by Gunther Prien. | 14th October, 1939 |
| The Schutz Staffeinel (SS) establish the first Jewish Ghetto in Piotrkow. | 28th October, 1939 |
| Germany formally annexes western Poland into the German Reich. | 1st November, 1939 |
| Joseph Stalin formally annexes eastern Poland into the Soviet Union. | 2nd November, 1939 |
| The Red Army invades Finland. | 30th November, 1939 |
| The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. | 14th December, 1939 |
| The Red Army attacks the Mannerheim Line in Finland. | 11th February, 1940 |
| Finland signs a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. | 12th March, 1940 |
| Paul Reynaud replaces Edouard Daladier as prime minister of France. | 20th March, 1940 |
| Britain and France agree not to sign a separate peace with Nazi Germany. | 28th March, 1940 |
| Neville Chamberlain appoints Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production. | 3rd April, 1940 |
| Soldiers in the British Army land at Namsos in Norway. | 8th April, 1940 |
| The German Army invades Denmark and Norway. | 9th April, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler launches his Western Offensive and invades France. | 10th May, 1940 |
| Neville Chamberlain resigns as prime minister and is replaced by Winston Churchill. | 10th May, 1940 |
| Anthony Eden announces the formation of the Home Guard. | 14th May, 1940 |
| Netherlands surrenders and Queen Wilhelmina flees to England. | 14th May, 1940 |
| Parliament grants Winston Churchill and his government wide emergency powers. | 22nd May, 1940 |
| General Gerd von Rundstedt and the German Army pierce the French defences at Sedan. | 23rd May, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in France and Belgium to halt their advance. | 23rd May, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in resume their advance into France and Belgium. | 25th May, 1940 |
| Evacuation from Dunkirk begins. | 27th May, 1940 |
| Belgium surrender to the German Army and Leopold III is arrested. | 28th May, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Stafford Cripps as British ambassador to the Soviet Union. | 30th May, 1940 |
| The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk. | 4th June, 1940 |
| J. B. Priestley gives first BBC radio broadcast. | 5th June, 1940 |
| Benito Mussolini declares war on the Allies. | 10th June, 1940 |
| Gotthard Heinrici and the 12th Corps break through the Maginot Line. | 14th June, 1940 |
| The German Army enters Paris. | 14th June, 1940 |
| The USA rejects France's renewed appeal for help against the German Army. | 15th June, 1940 |
| Henri-Philippe Petain begins to negotiate an armistice with Germany. | 17th June, 1940 |
| France signs armistice with Nazi Germany and is divided into two zones. | 22nd June, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill recognizes Charles De Gaulle as leader of the Free French. | 28th June, 1940 |
| The Royal Navy destroys most of the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir. | 3rd July, 1940 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt bans the shipment of strategic materials to Japan. | 5th July, 1940 |
| Ark Royal sinks Dunkerqueat at Mers-el-Kébir. | 6th July, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe launch the start of the Battle of Britain. | 10th July, 1940 |
| Henri-Philippe Petain becomes president of Vichy France. | 11th July, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill invites Hugh Dalton to establish the Special Operations Executive. | 16th July, 1940 |
| The Italian Army advances into British Somaliland. | 3rd August, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe began attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft, airfields and installations. | 13th August, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe carry out a all-night bombing raid on London and begins the Blitz. | 23rd August, 1940 |
| The Royal Air Force bombs Berlin. | 25th August, 1940 |
| Rodolfo Graziani and Italian Army make a rapid advance into Egypt. | 13th September, 1940 |
| City of Bernares sunk by a German torpedo killing 73 children on the way to Canada. | 17th September, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill decides to abandon the attempt to capture the port of Dakar. | 25th September, 1940 |
| Vidkun Quisling installed by the Germans as prime minister of Norway. | 25th September, 1940 |
| Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan signs the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Italy. | 27th September, 1940 |
| William Friedman breaks the Japanese secret code. | September, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Kingsley Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer. | 3rd October, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Ernest Bevin as Minister of Labour. | 3rd October, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion. | 12th October, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler meets Francisco Franco an attempt to persuade Spain to join the war. | 23rd October, 1940 |
| The Mustang P-51B makes its first flight. | 26th October, 1940 |
| The Italian Army invades Greece. | 28th October, 1940 |
| The Royal Navy attacks the Italian Navy at Taranto. | 11th November, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing 380 people and injuring 865. | 14th November, 1940 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany. | 16th November, 1940 |
| Airbourbe radar successfully used by the Royal Air Force for the first time. | 18th November, 1940 |
| British Army captures Tobruk. | 22nd January, 1941 |
| Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact and joins forces with Germany, Italy and Japan. | 1st March, 1941 |
| The British Army invades Italian-controlled Ethiopia. | 7th March, 1941 |
| US Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act. | 11th March, 1941 |
| General Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War. | 24th March, 1941 |
| General Andrew Cunningham, commander of allied forces in East Africa, enters Addis Ababa.. | 6th April, 1941 |
| Italian Army in Ethiopia surrenders to Allied forces. | 6th April, 1941 |
| Germany, Italy and Bulgaria invade Yugoslavia. | 10th April, 1941 |
| General Paul von Kleist and the 1st Panzer Group enter Belgrade. | 12th April, 1941 |
| Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan signs non-aggression pact with Soviet Union. | 14th April, 1941 |
| Yugoslavia surrenders to the German Army. | 17th April, 1941 |
| Marmaduke Pattle, RAF's leading war ace, killed while fighting in Greece. | 20th April, 1941 |
| Greece surrenders to the German Army. | 21st April, 1941 |
| General Erwin Rommel and his army enter Egypt. | 25th April, 1941 |
| The Luftwaffe destroy the House of Commons in Westminster. | 10th May, 1941 |
| Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland and is arrested by the authorities. | 10th May, 1941 |
| Frank Whittle's jet-propelled Gloster E28 takes its first flight. | 15th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck sinks the British battlecruiser Hood. | 24th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck attacked and sunk by the Royal Navy. | 27th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck is sunk by the British Navy. | 26th May 1941 |
| The British government introduces plans to ration clothes and furniture. | 1st June, 1941 |
| Syria invaded by British Army and Free French forces. | 8th June, 1941 |
| Operation Punishment comes to and end. | 22nd June, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. | 22nd June, 1941 |
| Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. | 25th June, 1941 |
| Hungary declares war on the Soviet Union. | 27th June, 1941 |
| Armistice signed in Syria. | 12th July, 1941 |
| Soviet Union and Britain sign an agreement of mutual aid. | 12th July, 1941 |
| Richard Acland launches the Common Wealth Party. | 26th July, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Leningrad. | 12th August, 1941 |
| Military forces from Soviet Union and Britain invade Iran. | 25th August, 1941 |
| The German Army captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in the Soviet Union. | 20th September, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Moscow. | 6th October, 1941 |
| The Royal Air Force bombs the German city of Nuremberg. | 13th October, 1941 |
| General Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan. | 16th October, 1941 |
| Masha Bruskina, first Soviet partisan to be executed in public by the German Army. | 26th October, 1941 |
| The British aircraft carrier, Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar. | 13th November, 1941 |
| Emperor Hirohito officially approves the attack on the United States. | 1st December, 1941 |
| Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. | 5th December, 1941 |
| Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. | 7th December, 1941 |
| The Start of the Pacific War. | 7th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invade Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines. | 8th December, 1941 |
| Japanese forces sink the Prince of Wales and Repulse off the east coast of Malaya. | 10th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invade Burma. | 11th December, 1941 |
| America First Committee is dissolved. | 11th December, 1941 |
| The National Service Act, that conscripted unmarried women, was passed by Parliament. | 18th December, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler sacks Heinrich von Brauchitsch as commander in chief of the German Army. | 19th December, 1941 |
| Japanese Army capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines. | 22nd December, 1941 |
| Hong Kong surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison | 25th December, 1941 |
| Japanese Army capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Malaya. | 11th January, 1942 |
| Reinhard Heydrich organizes the Wannsee Conference. | 20th January, 1942 |
| General Arthur Percival orders retreat to Singapore. | 25th January, 1942 |
| USA government announces the establishment of relocation camps for Japanese Americans. | 29th January, 1942 |
| Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore | 8th February, 1942 |
| The Scharnhorst and the Prinz Eugen start their successfully break out of Brest. | 12th February, 1942 |
| General Arthur Percival surrenders Singapore to Japanese. | 15th February, 1942 |
| Japanese Air Force bomb Darwin in Australia. | 19th February, 1942 |
| General Douglas MacArthur and the United States forces leave the Philippines | 22nd February, 1942 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Lubeck in Germany. | 23rd March, 1942 |
| Allied raid on St Nazaire. | 27th March, 1942 |
| Hermann Balck and the 3rd Panzer Division captures Salonika. | 9th April, 1942 |
| George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta. | 9th April, 1942 |
| The United States Air Force bomb Tokyo. | 18th April, 1942 |
| Pierre Laval becomes minister of foreign affairs in Vichy France. | 18th April, 1942 |
| The Luftwaffe start bombing Exeter, Bath and other historic cities in Britain. | 23rd April, 1942 |
| Japanese Army capture Mandalay in Burma. | 1st May 1942 |
| Start of the battle of Coral Sea. | 6th May, 1942 |
| Reinhard Heydrich is shot in Prague by Czech resistance fighters. | 27th May, 1942 |
| Arthur Harris orders the first 1000 bomber attack on Germany at Cologne. | 30th May, 1942 |
| Start of the battle of Midway. | 3rd June, 1942 |
| The Gestapo destroy the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia. | 10th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie at Gazala. | 14th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel and the German Army captures Tobruk. | 21st June, 1942 |
| General Erich von Manstein captures Sevastopol on the Black Sea. | 2nd July, 1942 |
| Donald Bennett appointed as commander of the Pathfinder Force. | 5th July, 1942 |
| Japanese Army land on Guadalcanal. | 7th July, 1942 |
| The Messerschmitt Me 262 makes its first test flight. | 18th July, 1942 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany. | 26th July, 1942 |
| Alexander Vandegrift and the US Marines land on Guadalcanal. | 7th August, 1942 |
| The US Marines use the Navajo Code for the first time. | 7th August, 1942 |
| General Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the British 8th Army. | 13th August, 1942 |
| The Flying Fortress begins making first daylight bombing raids on Europe. | 17th August, 1942 |
| 5,000 Canadian and 1,000 British troops raid the port of Dieppe in France. | 19th August, 1942 |
| The German Army enters Stalingrad. | 24th August, 1942 |
| The Duke of Kent dies in an air crash in Scotland. | 25th August, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam el Halfa. | 30th August, 1942 |
| The B-29 Stratafortress makes its first flight. | 21st September, 1942 |
| General Bernard Montgomery orders counter-attack at El Alamein. | 23rd October, 1942 |
| Thomas Kinkaid faces Nobutake Kondo at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. | 26th October, 1942 |
| Hornet is sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. | 27th October, 1942 |
| The German Army defeated at El Alamein. | 4th November, 1942 |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower,leads the invasion of Tunisia. | 8th November, 1942 |
| Admiral Jean Darlan surrenders French North Africa to Dwight D. Eisenhower. | 11th November, 1942 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the occupation of Vichy France. | 11th November, 1942 |
| Benito Mussolini orders the occupation of Corsica. | 11th November, 1942 |
| Nobutake Kondo launches battle off Savo Island. | 11th November, 1942 |
| The British Army recaptures Tobruk. | 12th November, 1942 |
| Admiral William Halsey leads successful naval campain at Guadalcana. | 13th November, 1942 |
| Erich von Manstein and the 4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to relieve the 6th Army. | 12th December, 1942 |
| Admiral Jean Darlan assassinated by member of French Resistance in Algiers. | 24th December, 1942 |
| The Luftwaffe renews its air attacks on London. | 18th January, 1943 |
| The Allies capture Tripoli. | 23rd January, 1943 |
| British and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock bombing of Nazi Germany. | 25th February, 1943 |
| Jurgen von Arnium replaces Erwin Rommel as commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps. | 9th March, 1943 |
| Germany announces the discovery of 4,443 Polish officers at Katyn in the Soviet Union. | 13th April, 1943 |
| Yitzhak Zuckerman leads the Warsaw Uprising. | 19th April, 1943 |
| The Allies capture Tunis. | 7th May, 1943 |
| Over 130,000 members of the German Army surrender in Tunisia. | 13th May, 1943 |
| Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the Dambusters Raid. | 16th May, 1943 |
| Jean Moulin holds the first meeting of the Conseil National de la Resistance in Paris. | 27th May, 1943 |
| Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo. | 8th July, 1943 |
| A German aircraft bombs Whitehall Cinema in East Grinstead and kills 235 people. | 9th July, 1943 |
| Allied troops land on German-occupied Sicily. | 10th July, 1943 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders further bombing of Hamburg. | 24th July, 1943 |
| Victor Emmanuel III dismisses Benito Mussolini from office in Italy. | 25th July, 1943 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Kharkov. | 23rd August, 1943 |
| Bernard Montgomery and the 8th Army land at Reggio in Italy. | 3rd September, 1943 |
| The Tirpitz and Scharnhorst bombard the Spitzbergen weather station. | 7th September, 1943 |
| Benito Mussolini is rescued from prison by a team led by Otto Skorzeny. | 12th September, 1943 |
| Benito Mussolini establishes a new fascist government at Salo on Lake Garda, Italy. | 15th September, 1943 |
| Italy's new prime minister, Pietro Badoglio, signs armistice with the Allies. | 23rd September, 1943 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Smolensk. | 25th September, 1943 |
| Corsica becomes the first region of France to be liberated. | 1st September, 1943 |
| General Mark Clark and 5th Army capture Naples. | 13th October, 1943 |
| Italy's prime minister, Pietro Badoglio, declares war on Germany. | 13th October, 1943 |
| Evans Carlson and the 2nd Raider Battalion land in Guadalcana. | 4th November, 1943 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Kiev. | 6th November, 1943 |
| The intensive bombing of Berlin by the RAF begins. | 18th November, 1943 |
| Allied invasion of the Gilbert Islands. | 20th November, 1943 |
| Eduard Benes and Joseph Stalin sign a Soviet-Czech peace treaty in Moscow. | 12th December, 1943 |
| The Scharnhorst is sunk by the Duke of York off the coast of Norway. | 26th December, 1943 |
| Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Tehran in Iran. | 28th December, 1943 |
| General John Lucas and US 5th Army land at Anzio. | 22nd January, 1944 |
| Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands. | 31st January, 1944 |
| Allied forces bomb monastery at Monte Cassino. | 15th February, 1944 |
| The Luftwaffe make their heaviest raids on London since May 1941. | 19th February, 1944 |
| Merrill's Marauders begin their first campaign in Burma. | 24th February, 1944 |
| Orde Wingate launches Operation Thursday in Burma. | 5th March, 1944 |
| United States Air Force begin daylight air attacks on Berlin. | 6th March, 1944 |
| Orde Wingate killed in plane crash in Burma. | 14th March, 1944 |
| Pierre Brossolette, one of the leaders of the French Resistance, murdered by the Gestapo. | 22nd March, 1944 |
| Paul von Kleist and Erich von Manstein recalled to Germany and sacked by Adolf Hitler. | 29th March, 1944 |
| Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid. | 30th March, 1944 |
| The German Army evacuates Sevastopol. | 9th May, 1944 |
| Allied troops take Monte Cassino. | 18th May, 1944 |
| General Harold Alexander and Allied forces manage to breakthrough the Gustav Line. | 23rd May, 1944 |
| General Mark Clark and Allied troops capture Rome. | 4th June, 1944 |
| Second Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy. | 6th June, 1944 |
| Pietro Badoglio resigns and Invanoe Bonomi forms new government in Italy. | 9th June, 1944 |
| The SS carry out a revenge attack on the Maquis at Oradour-sur-Glane. | 10th June, 1944 |
| First V1 Flying bomb lands on Britain. | 13th June, 1944 |
| The Red Army recaptures the city of Minsk. | 3rd July, 1944 |
| Allied troops capture Caen in Normandy. | 9th July, 1944 |
| Hideki Tojo resigns as prime minister of Japan. | 18th July, 1944 |
| July Plot against Adolf Hitler fails. | 20th July, 1944 |
| Polish resistance forces in Warsaw rebel against German occupation. | 1st August, 1944 |
| V1 Flying bomb brought down by a Gloster Meteor, Britain's first jet-fighter. | 4th August, 1944 |
| Allied troops land on the French coast between the ports of Toulon and Cannes. | 14th August, 1944 |
| Ernst Thaelmann is executed at Buchenwald. | 18th August, 1944 |
| United States Army enters Paris. | 24th August, 1944 |
| Romania declares war on Germany. | 25th August, 1944 |
| British troops enter Brussels, the capital of Belgium. | 4th September, 1944 |
| First V2 Rocket lands on Britain. | 8th September, 1944 |
| The French provisional government abolishes the Vichy legislature. | 10th September, 1944 |
| Allied troops enter Nazi Germany. | 11th September, 1944 |
| Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Quebec to discuss post-war Germany. | 11th September, 1944 |
| Romania signs an armistice with the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. | 12th September, 1944 |
| Start of Operation Market Garden. | 17th September, 1944 |
| Finland signs an armistice with the Soviet Union. | 19th September, 1944 |
| Allied troops forced to withdraw from Arnhem. | 25th September, 1944 |
| Adolf Hitler calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60 in Germany for army service. | 25th September, 1944 |
| Canadian troops liberate the French port of Calais. | 28th September, 1944 |
| The German Army crushes Warsaw Uprising. | 2nd October, 1944 |
| The British Army land in German-occupied Greece. | 4th October, 1944 |
| The Red Army enters Czechoslovakia. | 6th October, 1944 |
| Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Moscow. | 9th October, 1944 |
| Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide by the Nazi government. | 14th October, 1944 |
| General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines. | 20th October, 1944 |
| General Walter Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte. | 22nd October, 1944 |
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. | 24th October, 1944 |
| Bulgaria signs an armistice with the Allies. | 28th October, 1944 |
| The Tirpitz is sunk after being hit by Tallboy bombs. | 12th November, 1944 |
| The Red Army establish new government in Hungary. | 21st December, 1944 |
| The British 14th Army begin a new offensive in Burma. | 3rd January, 1945 |
| US forces make landings on the island of Luzon. | 9th January, 1945 |
| The Red Army liberate Warsaw. | 17th January, 1945 |
| The Red Army capture Budapest. | 18th January, 1945 |
| Start of Operation Ten-Go. | 2nd February, 1945 |
| Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at the Yalta Conference. | 4th February, 1945 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Dresden. | 13th February, 1945 |
| United States Army land on Iwo Jima. | 19th February, 1945 |
| United States Army capture Manila, the capital of the Philippines. | 28th February, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force creates firestorm in Tokyo. | 9th March, 1945 |
| British and Indian troops capture Mandalay in Burma. | 20th March, 1945 |
| United States Army cross the River Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim. | 22nd March, 1945 |
| Last V2 Rocket lands on Britain. | 27th March, 1945 |
| The Red Army enters Austria. | 29th March, 1945 |
| United States Army land on Okinawa. | 1st April, 1945 |
| A 700 plane kamikaze attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers.. | 6th April, 1945 |
| The Japanese giant battleship Yamato sunk off Okinawa. | 7th April, 1945 |
| General Harold Alexander and British forces mount a new offensive in northern Italy. | 9th April, 1945 |
| Pastor Dietrich Bonhoffer is hanged by the Nazi authorities. | 9th April, 1945 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and is replaced by Harry S. Truman. | 12th April, 1945 |
| Liberation of Belsen and Buchenwald. | 13th April, 1945 |
| Ernie Pyle, America's most famous war journalist, killed by Japanese sniper. | 17th April, 1945 |
| Liberation of Dachau. | 25th April , 1945 |
| United Nations Conference held in San Francisco. | 25th April , 1945 |
| Benito Mussolini is executed in Milan by Italian partisans. | 28th April , 1945 |
| German forces in Italy surrender to the Allies. | 29th April , 1945 |
| Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide. | 30th April, 1945 |
| Joseph Goebbels commits suicide. | 1st May , 1945 |
| Commander of German troops in Berlin surrenders. | 2nd May, 1945 |
| Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands. | 2nd May, 1945 |
| Frank Messervy and his troops captures Ragoon in Burma. | 3rd May, 1945 |
| All military forces in Germany surrender to the Allies. | 4th May, 1945 |
| Denmark liberated by Allied trrops. | 5th May, 1945 |
| End of the Battle of the Atlantic. | 7th May, 1945 |
| General Alfred Jodl signs the official surrender of Germany. | 8th May, 1945 |
| Winston Churchill announces VE day. | 8th May, 1945 |
| The German Army in Czechoslovakia surrender to the Red Army. | 9th May, 1945 |
| Heinrich Himmler commits suicide. | 22nd May, 1945 |
| William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) is captured at Flensburg. | 28th May, 1945 |
| Manhattan Project scientists test atom bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico. | 16th July, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Hiroshima. | 6th August, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Nagasaki. | 9th August , 1945 |
| General Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders army in the Philippines. | 2nd September, 1945 |
| General Douglas MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. | 2nd September, 1945 |