World War 2 Timeline 1939-1945 - Worldwar-2.net

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Prior to the outbreak of World War 2 Hitler takes the Army's salute.

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The modern world is still living with the consequences of World War 2, the most titanic conflict in history. Just under 69 years ago on September 1st 1939, Germany invaded Poland without warning sparking the start of World War Two. By the evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with Germany and within a week, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa had also joined the war. The world had been plunged into its second world war in 25 years. Six long and bloody years of total war, fought over many thousand of square kilometres followed. From the Hedgerows of Normandy to the streets of Stalingrad, the icy mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of Libya, the insect infested jungles of Burma to the coral reefed islands of the pacific. On land, sea and in the air, Poles fought Germans, Italians fought Americans and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict which was finally settled with the use of nuclear weapons. World War 2 involved every major world power in a war for global domination and at its end, more than 60 million people had lost their lives and most of Europe and large parts of Asia lay in ruins.

I hope you will enjoy viewing worldwar-2.net and find its information both helpful and interesting. The website includes an exhaustive day by day timeline, covering every event that occured during World War 2, by military theatre and in chronological order from 1939 through to 1945, which gives a fascinating insight into the most devastating war in our history.



" A gigantic fleet... has massed in Pearl Harbor. This fleet will be utterly crushed with one blow at the very beginning of hostilities...Heaven will bear witness to the righteousness of our struggle." Rear-Admiral Ito Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet November 1941 "As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end" General Heinz Guderian November 1941 "Oh merciful lord… crown our effort with victory… and give us faith in the inevitable power of light over darkness, of justice over evil and brutal force… Of the cross of Christ over the Fascist swastika… so be it, amen." Sergei Archbishop of Moscow 27th November 1941			13th October 1941 German forces of Army Group Centre capture Kalinin, just 100 miles to the West of Moscow. 14th October 1941 Army Group Centre wipes out the Russian pocket at Bryansk, but only capture about 50,000 prisoners. The rain and mud begins to impede the German advance, but German troops manage to capture Rzhev. Hitler orders that Moscow is to be enveloped, rather that assaulted directly. Russian troops fall back in the southern Ukraine as the Germans make for the port of Rostov. 15th October 1941 N/A 16th October 1941 Moscow now considered in real jeopardy. Following the evacuation of the Soviet government and diplomatic corps from Moscow to Kuibyshev, panic begins to spread among the civilian population, with thousands fleeing the city to places further east, but Stalin decides to stay. Odessa falls to the Romanians after a Soviet evacuation by sea. During the 2 month siege, the Romanians have suffered 98,000 casualties. Admiral Harold R Stark, US chief of Naval Operations warns of potential hostilities between Japan and the USSR and possibly between Japan and the USA. The Japanese government falls. Prince Konoye is replaced by Hideki Tojo, Japan's minister of war. 17th October 1941 Taganrog on the Sea of Azov is captured by Army Group South. Destroyer USS Kearny damaged by German torpedo off Iceland. US House representatives allow merchantmen to be armed. 18th October 1941 German units are now only 80 miles west of Moscow. 19th October 1941 Army Group Centre finally clears the Vyazma pocket capturing 670,000 Russians, 1,000 tanks and 4,000 guns. Stalin declares state of siege in Moscow and orders its defence to the last. 20th October 1941 N/A 21st October 1941 Units of 6th Army capture Stalino in the industrial Donets Basin. 22nd October 1941 50 hostages shot in Nantes, France as reprisal for assassination of the German military commander. 50 more to die if the assassin isn't caught. German Major shot in Bordeaux 100 arrested, 50 shot immediately. 23rd October 1941 It is decided that British forces should make their main approach on Gondar in Abyssinia, from the direction of Adowa due to the better road conditions. De Gaulle meets French Resistance and asks to spare the innocent and bide their time. Nazis forbid emigration of Jews from the Reich. 24th October 1941 Lord Woolton calls the black market in Britain ‘a thorn in our side’. Germans forces take the ruins of Kiev, along with a massive haul of 600,000 prisoners, 2,500 tanks and 1,000 guns. 25th October 1941 Army Group South takes Kharkov and Belgorod. 26th October 1941 N/A

German sIG 33

The sIG 33 was created by fixing a 15cm Schwere Infanterie Geschütz 33 to a PzKpfw I chassis and was primarily used to give close fire support to infantry units.


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Casualties (1939 - 1945): Soldiers (Neutral) - 13 Killed Soldiers (Axis) - 4,000 Killed Soldiers (Allied) - 1,886 Killed Resistance - 1,300 Killed Civilians - 4,000 Killed Jews - 400 Killed