WWII's Kilroy Was Here WWII and Korean War Timeline

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June 6, 2000

Jan 30th
Hitler becomes Chancellor
of Germany

Oct 25
Italy and ..Germany.. form the Rome-Berlin Axis

Nov 9-10 Kristallnacht

May 22
"Pact of Steel" signed between Italy and Germany

Mar 15-16
German occupies Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement

Mar 28
Spanish Civil War ends

Aug 2
Einstein send letter to FDR that prompts
the .Manhatton.project

Aug 23
Nazi-Soviet nonagression pact signed

Sep 1
Germany invades Poland. The beginning of WWII

Sep 3
Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 17
Red Army invades Poland

Sep 27
Warsaw falls to Nazis

Dec 14
Soviet Union kicked out of League of .Nations

Apr 9
German Army invades Denmark and Norway

June 14
...Nazis... take Paris

June 22
France capitulates to Nazis

..July..10..
Battle of Britain begins

Aug 13
Luftwaffe raids British airfields & factories

Sep 16
U.S. Draft .begins

Sep 27
Japan signs "Pact of Steel" treaty

Jan 22
British take Tobruk

Jun 22
operation ..Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union

Nov 5
Secret decision by Japanese for war with the USA

Dec 7
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

Dec 8
US declares war on Japan.

Dec 11
Germany declares war on the United States

Jan 13
German U-boats begin "Operation Drumbeat" sinking ships off America

Apr 12
Doolittle raid on Tokyo

May 30
first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne

Jun 4
The Battle of Midway & Japanese forces seize Attu & Kiska

Aug 7
Marines land on Guadalcanal

Nov 8
Operation Torch-the Allied invasion of North Africa

Jan 14-23
Casablanca, Allies demand unconditional surrender

Jan 27
U.S. Air Force starts daylight bombing raids with attack on
Wilhelmshaven

Mar 16-20
German U-boats achieve their largest tonnage total of the war

May 11
US troops invade Attu

Jul 10
Operation Husky- Allies invade Sicily

Jul 26
Mussolini forced to resign.

Aug 15
US and Canadian forces invade Kiska

Aug 17
US Bombers make first raid on Schweinfurt

Sep 3
Italy surrenders

Oct 14
"Black Thursday" 2nd raid on Schweinfurt

Nov 20
Marines invade Tarawa & Makin

Nov 28
"Big Three" meet at Tehran

Jan 22
US troops invade Anzio

Jan 31
US forces invade Kwajalein

Feb 15
Allies bomb Monte Casino, Italy

Feb 18-22
US forces take Eniwetok

Jun 6
D-Day
Allies invade Europe at Normandy

Jun 13
Nazis begin V-1 rocket attacks on London

Jun 15
US Forces invade Saipan

Jun 19
The Battle of the Philippine Sea - The Marianas Turkey Shoot

Jul 20
Hitler survives assassination attempt

Aug 24
Allies liberate Paris

Sep 13
US troops reach the Siegfried Line

Oct 20
US forces land on Leyte in the Philippines

Oct 23-25
The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The largest naval battle in history

Nov 7
Roosevelt elected to fourth term

Dec 15
US forces invade Mindor

Dec 16
The Battle of th Bulge

Jan 9
US forces invade Luzon

Feb 4-11
"Big 3" meet at Yalta

Feb 19
Marines invade Iwo Jima

Feb 23
Marines raise flag on Mt. Suribachi

Mar 3
US forces liberate Manil

Mar 7
US 1st Army captues Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany

Mar 9-10
B-29 nightime firebomb raid on Tokyo

Mar 16
Japanese resistance on Iwo Jima ends

Mar 22
US 3rd Army crossed th Rhine River

Apr 1
US invades Okinawa

Apr 12
President Roosevelt dies

Apr 25
US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany

Apr 28
Mussolini hanged by Italian partisans

Apr 30
Adolf Hitler commits suicide

May 7
German forces surrender

Jun 26
United Nations World Charter signed

Jul 16
1st atomic bomb test at Alamagordo

Jul 17
Potsdam Conference

Aug 6
1st Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Aug 8
Soviet Union declares war on Japan

Aug 9
2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

Aug 14
Japanese forces surrender

Aug 15
US troops arrived in Korea to accept Janese surrender

Sep 2
Japanese sign instrument of surrender on battleship
Missouri

Nov 20
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal begin

Jan 7
UN meets for first time in London

Feb 28
"get tough with Russia" declared by SOS James F. Byrnes

Mar 5
Churchill makes "Iron Curtain" spech at Westminster College

Mar 21
SAC, TAC and Air Defense Command created

June 14
Soviet Union vetos international atomic energy control plan

Jul 1
Bikini Tests: Atomic bomb tests

Oct 6
Göring commits suicide; 11 otherwar criminals hanged

Jun 5
Congress votes to fund the Marshall Plan

Jul 26
National Security Act creates DOD and the new U.S. Air Force

Oct 29
U.N. authorizes the creation of of Israel

Feb 25
Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia

Apr 26
Berlin Blockade begins

May 14
Israel declares independence. Five Arab states invade

Jul 26
Truman desegregated the armed forces

Aug 15
Republic of South Korea is founded

Sep 9
the "Korean People's Democratic Republic" is founded

May 12
Berlin blockade ends

Sep 23
Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb in August according to US

Oct 1
"People's Republic of China is established"

Dec 7
Chinese Nationalist government retires to Taiwan

Jan 31
Truman approves the development of the hydrogen bomb

May 9
Truman announces U.S. military aid to French in Indochina

Oct 19
Chinese units cross the Yalu River

Dec 23
US signs a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement with Vietnam.

May 27
Tibet ends resistance to Chinese takeover

Sep 8
Peace treaty with Japan is signed

Jun 14
Truman lays keel of U.S.S. Nautilus, first nuclear submarine

Nov 1
Hydrogen bomb is
exploded by
Enewetok

Mar 5
Josef Stalin dies

Jul 27
Armistice
ends the
Korean War

Aug 14
USSR
explodes a hydrogen bomb

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