Second World War Battles

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