| Battles and Offensives in the Second World War |
Date |
| The German Army invades Poland. |
1st September, 1939 |
| The Red Army invades Finland. |
30th November, 1939 |
| The German Army invades Denmark. |
8th April, 1940 |
| The German Army invades Norway. |
8th April, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler launches his Western Offensive. |
10th May, 1940 |
| Evacuation from Dunkirk begins. |
27th May, 1940 |
| Start of the Battle of Britain. |
10th July, 1940 |
| Climax of the Battle of Britain. |
30th August, 1940 |
| Start of the Blitz. |
7th September, 1940 |
| Rodolfo Graziani and Italian Army make a rapid advance into Egypt. |
13th September, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion. |
17th September, 1940 |
| British Army captures Tobruk. |
22nd January, 1941 |
| Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War. |
24th March 1941 |
| Operation Punishment comes to an end. |
22nd June, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. |
22nd June, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Leningrad. |
12th August, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Moscow. |
6th October, 1941 |
| Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. |
7th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invaded Malaya, Thailand, Batann Island in the Philippines. |
8th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invade Burma. |
11th December, 1941 |
| Hong Kong surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison. |
25th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore |
8th February, 1941 |
| General Arthur Percival surrenders Singapore to Japanese. |
15th February, 1942 |
| General Douglas MacArthur and the United States forces leave the Philippines |
22nd February, 1942 |
| Allied raid on St Nazaire. |
27th March, 1942 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Cologne. |
30th May, 1942 |
| Start of the battle of Midway. |
4th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie at Gazala. |
14th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel and the German Army captures Tobruk. |
21st June, 1942 |
| Allied landings at Guadalcanal. |
7th August, 1942 |
| Allied raid on Dieppe. |
14th August, 1942 |
| The German Army enters Stalingrad. |
24th August, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam el Halfa. |
30th August, 1942 |
| Bernard Montgomery orders counter-attack at El Alamein. |
23rd October, 1942 |
| Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the Dambusters Raid. |
16th May, 1943 |
| The German Army defeated at El Alamein. |
4th November, 1942 |
| The British Army recaptures Tobruk. |
13th November, 1942 |
| The Allies capture Tripoli. |
23rd January, 1943 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Hamburg. |
24th July, 1943 |
| Allied forces bomb monastery at Monte Cassino. |
15th February, 1944 |
| Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid. |
30th March, 1944 |
| Axis forces surrender Tunisia. |
11th May, 1943 |
| Second Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy. |
6th June, 1944 |
| The German Army crushes Warsaw Uprising. |
2nd October, 1944 |
| General Walter Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte. |
20th October, 1944 |
| US forces return to the Philippines at Luzon |
15th December, 1945 |
| Start of Operation Ten-Go. |
2nd 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 Air Force creates firestorm in Tokyo. |
9th 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 |
| End of the Battle of the Atlantic. |
7th May, 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 |