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London prepares for enemy air attacks; Winston Churchill, who is named First Lord of the Admiralty.

1939 September

From Italy Mussolini offers Hitler his help in the occupation of France. The Nazi leader declines his offer, saying to General Wilhelm Keitel "This fool said that his country wasn't prepared for war and now he is in a rush to share the spoils".

1940 June

Roosevelt, watching events in Europe with alarm, takes the decision to end American diplomatic efforts to persuade Germany to desist from aggression.

1939 October

In Poland, 167 professors from the University of Cracow are arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen.

1939 November

The Germans control the Channel Islands; Churchill is worried about Syria and Lebanon falling to Germany.

1940 July

1941 December

In Poland there is no letup in the public executions carried out by the Soviets and the Germans. The objective is to terrorize the population and dissuade them from any action against the occupiers.

1939 December

Nazi enforced curfews; the people of Poland are not easily intimidated.

1940 January

Compulsory the use of the Jewish star on clothes for France and the Netherlands; the SS states that to date 977,000 Jews have been eliminated using gas.

1942 June

German submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic; British blackouts radio broadcasts.

1940 February

The Sixth Army and the Fourth Panzerarmee surrender to the Red Army; the world's first production plant of Uranium-235 opens.

1943 February

1944 June

In London, the British Secret Service warns the government of the build-up of German troops and ships on the Dutch and Belgian coasts.

1940 March

The Allied supreme war council meets in London to help Belgium and the Netherlands.

1940 April

Marshal Zhukov has orders of taking the German capital and capturing Hitler; Eisenhower thinks casualty rate would be too high is we arrived in Berlin first.

1945 March

After intercepting Japanese messages the US is convinced Japan will not accept an unconditional surrender.

1945 August

Prime Minister Chamberlain confirms the evacuation of the British and French troops from Norway.

1940 May

After six years of war most of the cities of Europe are in ruins.

1945 September

In Berlin, Hitler goes over the strategic plan for the capture of the British Base of Gibraltar.

1940 August

United States signs of a defensive agreement with Canada; Jews must sew a yellow star onto their clothes in Germany.

1940 September

London is on fire after waves of Luftwaffe planes bomb the city.

1940 October

The city of London has a quiet night, after 57 days on bombing.

1940 November

Luftwaffe attacks in England; Britain's use of radar; the RAF targets within Germany.

1940 December

Churchill examines strategy in the Mediterranean; Amy Johnson's plane is shot down.

1941 January

Winston Churchill declares that the United States is resolved to provide Britain with everything it needs for victory.

1941 February

Winston Churchill analyzes the German occupation of Bulgaria.

1941 March

Hitler meets with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, in Berlin.

1941 April

In Berlin, Hitler again meets with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka; they study the possibility of an attack against Singapore and the consequences of a possible American intervention in the war.

1941 May

Winston Churchill appeals for more help from President Roosevelt.

1941 June

Churchill declares there will be no letup in the bombing of Germany until Hitler is destroyed.

1941 July

Japan is hit hard by the US oil embargo; the Burmese government suspends trade with Japan.

1941 August

All Jews older the age of six must wear a Star of David sewed onto their clothes over the chest.

1941 September

President Roosevelt accuses Hitler of ordering unprovoked attacks against American vessels, after the sinking of the Reuben James.

1941 November

A meeting at the White house with President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

1942 January

Casualties are high for Japan in Malaysia; the RAF use selective bombings in Germany.

1942 February

Churchill asks Roosevelt for help when England is facing shortages of food and coal.

1942 March

Himmler presents his plan for German schools to Hitler at Rastenburg.

1942 April

General Dwight Eisenhower becomes the Commander in Chief of the Allied forces in Europe.

1942 August

The Führer becomes obsession with a rapid conquest of Stalingrad.

1942 September

General Kurt Zeitzler asks Hitler to reconsider their strategy in the conquest of Stalingrad.

1942 October

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel orders Italian forces to withdraw behind the Afrika Korps.

1942 November

Thousands of German soldiers are trapped in Stalingrad, hope to be rescued.

1942 December

Japan evacuates Guadalcanal; Germany feels the pressure of the Russian siege in Stalingrad.

1943 January

The American Jewish Congress wants refuge for European Jews and to abolish restrictions on immigration to Palestine.

1943 March

Heinrich and Himmler are convinced Germany will be defeated, so they hide evidence of the Holocaust.

1943 April

SS General Franz Reichleitner orders Polish Jews to be moved from Wlodawa to the Sobibor death camp.

1943 May

The residents of the Lvov ghetto, in Poland, offer a strong resistance to capture.

1943 June

Hitler decides to temporarily halt Operation Zitadelle; the Red Army heads for Berlin.

1943 July

American planes bomb huge oil installations, the lifelines of the Third Reich.

1943 August

Hitler accelerates the production of war materials, believing Germany will recoup their initiative.

1943 September

Hitler orders defensive the lines south of Rome to use any means necessary to keep the Allies' from advancing.

1943 October

Himmler wants to annihilate all Jews in Poland; Hitler suffers a heavy blow in Kiev.

1943 November

Hitler has strengthened his own security measures, after Mussolini is defeated.

1943 December

Hitler addresses the German people on New Years Eve and reasserts his will to keep fighting.

1944 January

RAF and the US Air Force carpet bomb major industrial centers of the Third Reich.

1944 February

Allied commanders aim to cut off the supply lines to the German troops.

1944 March

Hitler orders victory to be achieved on the Eastern Front; his generals question his sanity.

1944 April

During a May Day speech Stalin claims Germany has been defeated and the Nazi beast is wounded.

1944 May

The Allies have over a million soldiers and thousands of vehicles in northern France.

1944 July

Himmler orders the Von Stauffenberg family to be persecuted, as Hitler instructed.

1944 August

General Eisenhower sets up his headquarters in the northern France.

1944 September

1944 October

The Japanese launch fire balloons over the Pacific Ocean, hoping to set wildfires in the US.

1944 November

Charles De Gaulle and Josef Stalin sign a military alliance against Germany ; the third anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1944 December

1945 January

Soviet forces are less than one hundred kilometers from Berlin.

1945 February

General Eisenhower sends photographs to a horrified Churchill.

1945 April

1945 May

The Soviets examine the remains of Hitler, Eva Braun, and Joseph Goebbels; Pope Pius XII calls on the German people to abandon Nazism.

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