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Was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 (it started sooner in certain regions) between the Axis Powers (mainly Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (mainly the Soviet Union, the U.S.A., the U.K., China and France). It was the war with more fatalities in history. The war in Asia began when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The war in Europe began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The war ended with the complete defeat of the Axis powers, which were occupied by the Allies.
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Was the East Asian, South Asian and Pacific theatre of World War II.
August 1943: Japan handed over part of the Shan States of occupied British Burma to Thailand, which annexed the territories to the newly formed province of Saharat Thai Doem. With this acquisition, Thailand also gained a direct border with China.
February 1944: On January 31, 1944 American forces landed on Kwajalein atoll and U.S. Marines and Army troops later took control of the islands from the Japanese on February 3.
October 1943: In July 1943, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo announced that Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, and Terengganu were to be returned to Thailand as part of the military alliance signed between Thailand and Japan on 21 December 1941. Thailand administered the states as Syburi, Palit, Kalantan and Trangkanu provinces from 18 October 1943.
September 1945: A congress of "People's Representatives" was held in what is now the Sonid Right Banner.
January 1944: Perlis was returned to Siam in World War II as a reward for Siam's alliance with Japan.
April 1942: The Free Republic of Nias existed for less than a month until the island of Nias was fully occupied by Japanese troops.
August 1945: Kelantan reverted to British occupation upon the end of World War 2 in August 1945.
January 1942: D. João, Lapa and Montanha Islands are taken in 1941 by the Empire of Japan.
September 1944: U.S. occupation of the islands of actual Micronesia.
August 1942: Japanese troops occupied Nauru on 25 August 1942.
1.1.Second Sino-Japanese War
Was a military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.
1.1.1.Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese Army invaded Manchuria in 1931 following the Mukden Incident. At the end of the invasion in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo.
1.1.1.1.Jinzhou Operation
Was an operation in 1931 during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Japanese forces occupied Jinzhou on January 3, 1932.
1.1.1.2.Jiangqiao Campaign
Was an operation in 1931 during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
1.1.2.Defense of the Great Wall
Was a military campaign where Japan successfully captured the Inner Mongolian province of Rehe from the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang, and incorporated it into the newly created state of Manchukuo.
1.1.3.Actions in Inner Mongolia
Was a Japanese military campaign in Inner Mongolia, part of the Japanese invasion of northern China during the Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.3.1.Campaign of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army
Was a military offensive by the Kuomintang against the invading Japanese army in Inner Mongolia, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.3.2.Suiyuan Campaign
Was a Japanese military campaign in the Suiyuan province of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.4.Full Scale Invasion of China (Second Sino-Japanese War)
Was the first Japanese campaign of the full scale invasion of China after the occupation of Manchuria, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The campaign led to the military occupation of many important Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Nanjing and Kaifeng.
1.1.4.1.Battle of Shanghai
Was a battle between China and Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War resulting in the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.
1.1.5.Battle of Beiping-Tianjin
Was a series of battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought in the proximity of Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin.
1.1.6.Operation Chahar
Was a Japanese military operation against China that took place near Beiping during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.7.Battle of Taiyuan
Was a battle between China and Japan that took place in the Chinese region of Shanxi during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.7.1.Battle of Xinkou
Was a military engagement between China and Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.8.Tianjin-Pukou Railway Operation
Was a follow up operation to the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin of the Japanese army in North China at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.9.Battle of Nanking
Was fought in early December 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of the Republic of China.
1.1.10.Beiping-Hankou Railway Operation
Was a follow up to the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin of the Japanese army in North China at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.11.Battle of Xuzhou
Was a military engagement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in May 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.12.Amoy Operation
Was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to prevent China from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials.
1.1.13.Battle of Wuhan
Was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War that took place in the area of Wuhan.
1.1.14.Hainan Island Operation
Was a Japanese military operation against China that took place in the area of Hainan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.15.Battle of Nanchang
Was a military campaign fought around Nanchang, Jiangxi, between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.16.Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang
Was a military engagement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in northern Hubei during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.17.Swatow Operation
Was a Japanese military operation against China that took place in the area of Shantou during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.18.Battle of Changsha (1939)
Was the first of four attempts by Japan to take the city of Changsha, Hunan, during the second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.19.Battle of South Guangxi
Was a military engagement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in southern Guangxi during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.20.1939-40 Winter Offensive
Was a failed Japanese military operation against China that took place in central China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.21.Battle of Wuyuan
Was a Chinese counterattack that defeated the Japanese invasion of the Wuyuan area.
1.1.22.Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang
Was a military engagement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China forces in Hubei during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.23.Japanese invasion of French Indochina
Was the Japanese invasion and occupation of French Indochina.
1.1.23.1.Annexation of southern french indochina
Was the Japanese occupation of southern Indochina during World War II.
1.1.23.2.Japanese coup d'etat
Was the creation of the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan during World War II.
1.1.23.3.French reconquest of Laos
Was the French reconquest of Laos from Japanese occupation at the end of World War II.
1.1.24.Battle of South Shanxi
Was a military engagement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in Shanxi during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.25.Battle of Changsha (1942)
Was a failed Japanese military operation against China that took place in the area of Changsha during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.26.Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
Was a Chinese intervention to aid their British allies in the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma.
1.1.26.1.Battle of Oktwin
Was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.26.2.Battle of Toungoo
Was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.26.3.Battle of Yenangyaung
Was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.27.Battle of Changde
Was a military engagement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in the area of Changde during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.28.Operation Ichi-Go
Was a major Japanese military operation in southern China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.28.1.Battle of Changsha (1944)
Was an invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan by Japanese troops near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.28.2.Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou
Was a battle between China and Japan that took place in Guangxi, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.28.3.Battle of Mount Song
Was a Chinese military campaign against Japanese occupation in Yunnan, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.29.Battle of West Hunan
Was the Japanese invasion of west Hunan and the subsequent Allied counterattack that occurred between 6 April and 7 June 1945, during the last months of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.30.Second Guangxi campaign
Was a Chinese counter offensive to retake the last major Japanese stronghold in Guangxi province, South China during April-August 1945.
1.2.Franco-Thai War
Was fought between Thailand and Vichy France over certain areas of French Indochina.
May 1941: Franco-Thai War: Thai annexation of territories of French Indochina.
May 1941: The Japanese, directly interested in infiltrating the region, brokered a ceasefire with France which became effective at 10.00 on 28 January and forced the French to cede the disputed territories in the treaty signed in Tokyo on 9 May 1941.
1.3.Philippines campaign (1941-1942)
Was the invasion of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan during World War II.
1.3.1.Japanese occupation of Luzon and surrounding islands
Were the operations of the Japanese army in Luzon and surrounding islands during the invasion of the Philippines.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Mauban.
December 1941: The Japanese 14th Army began its invasion with a landing on Batan Island (not to be confused with Bataan Peninsula), 190 km off the north coast of Luzon, on 8 December 1941.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Uguegarao.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Olaoag.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Imugan.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Lingayen.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Baguio.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Tarlag.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Cavite.
April 1942: The American surrended at Bataan to the Japanese.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Manila.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of St. Jose.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of S. Fernando.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Cabanatuan.
May 1942: Fall of Corregidor to Japanese forces (6 May 1942).
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Batangas.
December 1941: Japanese landings on Camiguin Island.
December 1941: The Japanese landed 2,500 men of the 16th Division at Legazpi.
December 1941: Japanese Landings at Vigan, Aparri, and Gonzaga.
1.3.2.Japanese occupation of Mindanao and surrounding islands
Were the operations of the Japanese army in Mindanao and surrounding islands during the invasion of the Philippines.
December 1941: The Japanese landed at Jolo, in the Sulu Archipelago, finding light resistence.
December 1941: In the night between the 19th and 20th the island of Mindanao was also occupied, after resistance by the garrison.
1.4.Japanese invasion of Thailand
Was the Japanese invasion of Thailand during World War II. Thailand and Japan then formed an alliance making Thailand part of the Axis alliance until the end of World War II.
December 1941: To end the Japanese invasion, Thailand signed an armistice. The Japanese forces left the country but Thailand was forced to become an ally of Japan from 21 December 1941.
December 1941: Territories conquered by Japan in Thailand by 8 december
December 1941: The Japanese 1st Infantry Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment landed at Chumphon on the morning of 8 December.
December 1941: A Japanese infantry company from the 1st Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment landed from one troopship at the coastal village of Ban Don in the early hours of 8 December.
December 1941: The Japanese 3rd Battalion of the Imperial Guards Regiment landed at Samut Prakan in the early hours of 8 December.
December 1941: The Japanese 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment under Major Kisoyoshi Utsunomiya landed at 03:00 from one troopship, and occupied Prachuap Khiri Khan after having crushed police resistance there.
1.5.Malayan Campaign
Was a military campaign of Japan against British Malaya that ended with the expulsion of the British forces from the area.
December 1941: Japanese troops launched an amphibious assault on the northern coast of Malaya at Kota Bharu.
December 1941: Perlis was occupied by Japan (Malay Federation) until 18 October 1943.
December 1941: Japanese occupation of Malaya.
December 1941: Kelantan was where the Japanese first landed during their invasion of Malaya, on 8 December 1941.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Yala.
December 1941: Terengganu is occupied by Japan.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Krah.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Sungei Patani.
December 1941: The fortress of Penang is evacuated by British forces.
December 1941: During World War II, Penang was occupied by Japan on December 19, 1941.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Kuala Kongsar.
January 1942: Pahang was occupied by Japan.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Malacca.
January 1942: During World War II, Johor was occupied by Japan from January 31, 1942.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Endau.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Jitra.
December 1941: In World War II, Kedah (along with Kelantan) was the first region of Malaya to be invaded by Japan.
January 1942: Selangor, Putraja and Kuala Lumpur are occupied by Japan.
February 1942: The Malayan Campaign of the Japanese ends with the surrender of Singapore.
December 1941: Japanese conquest of Gurun.
January 1942: The Japanese invaded the Dutch East Indies in 1941-42 and the Dutch administration on Sumbawa quickly broke down.
January 1942: The Japanese invade Labuan Island.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Lumut.
December 1941: Perak is occupied by Japan.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Kuantan.
February 1942: End of the Malayan Campaign. Japanese forces control Malaysia.
1.6.Battle of Guam (World War II)
Was the struggle over the control of Guam between Japanese and U.S. forces during World War II.
1.6.1.Battle of Guam (1941)
Was the Japanese invasion of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands.
December 1941: The small American garrison of Guam was defeated by Japanese forces on 10 December, which resulted in an occupation.
1.6.2.Battle of Guam (1944)
Was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam.
July 1944: Frontline of the U.S liberation of Guam from Japanese occupation (1944).
August 1944: Frontline of the U.S liberation of Guam from Japanese occupation (1944).
August 1944: American forces invaded Guam. By August 8th, organized Japanese resistance ended, and Guam was declared secure.
1.7.Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign
Were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II between the United States and Japan.
December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy occupied the Gilbert Islands.
January 1944: U.S. invasion of Majuro Atoll. Atoll is secured without a fight.
November 1943: Battle of Makin and Battle of Tarawa on the Gilbert Islands.
1.8.Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
Was a successful campaign by Japanese Imperial forces for control of Borneo island, which was a British (the northern part) and Dutch (the southern part) possession.
December 1941: The Japanese occupy the Kuching area.
December 1941: Japanese forces took control of Brunei in six days.
December 1941: On December 15, Japanese troops landed, taking Miri, Seria and Lutong without great difficulty.
December 1941: Allied troops retreated through the jungle to Singkawang, which fell in turn on 29 December.
December 1941: On December 31, forces under Lt. Col. Watanabe advanced on Labuan and Jesselton.
April 1942: After ten weeks of resistance in the jungle, the Allied troops in Sarawak finally surrendered to the Japanese on April 1.
January 1942: British North Borneo is surrendered to Japanese at Sandakan
January 1942: Japanese force lands at Sandakan, British North Borneo.
1.9.Battle of Wake Island
Was the military invasion by Japanese forces of Wake island, a U.S. possession.
December 1941: Surrender of the American Garrison of Wake Island to the Empire of Japan.
1.10.Battle of Hong Kong
Was a Japanese military campaign against the British colony of Hong Kong that ended with Japanaese occupation.
December 1941: Battle of Hong Kong. The British garrison of Hong Kong surrenders ot Japanese forces.
1.11.Dutch East Indies campaign
Was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces from the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
January 1942: Japanese invasion of Tarakan.
January 1942: Japanese invasion of Manado.
January 1942: The Japanese invasion forces move to Balikpapan.
January 1942: Japanese conquest of Kendari.
February 1942: Makassar conquered by japan.
February 1942: After the conquest of Makassar Japan basically holds the entire Island of Sulawesi.
February 1942: Battle of Banjarmasin.
March 1942: Bali fell to Japan in february.
April 1942: The Japanese fought the British and Dutch, securing control of Borneo on April 1, 1942.
March 1942: Japanese occupation of entire Sumatra completed.
March 1942: Battle of Samarinda.
February 1942: Battle of Ambon: Japan invaded and conquered the island in a few days, facing Dutch, American and Australian forces.
1.11.1.Battle of Java
Was the Japanese invasion of the island of Java, at the time part of the Dutch East Indies.
March 1942: The Japanese Nasu Detachment pursued the Dutch through Tjiandjoer and (Tjimahi), entering the city.
March 1942: The Japanese complete the conquest of Java and thereby gain control of the entire Durch East Indies.
March 1942: Colonel Toshishige Shoji surrendered at the Isola Hotel in Lembang.
March 1942: Buitenzorg was occupied by Japan.
March 1942: The Japanese advanced rapidly and overcame all Dutch army defence found in Blora, Soerakarta, Bojolali, Djokjakarta, Magelang, Salatiga, Ambarawa and Poerworedjo.
March 1942: Battle of Leuwiliang.
March 1942: Keboemen and Purwokerto, north of Tjilatjap were captured by the Japanese. The Yamamoto Unit fanned out along the beach and mounted a two-pronged attack, entering Tjilatjap.
March 1942: The Japanese Kitamura Unit occupied Bodjonegoro.
March 1942: The Japanese Tanaka Unit occupied Tjepoe on 2 March.
1.12.Japanese conquest of Burma
Was a Japanese military campaign against British Burma that resulted in the Japanese occupation of the region.
1.13.Burma Campaign
Was the battle between the Japanese and British forces in Burma, during World War II.
June 1944: The 77th Brigade under Brigadier Michael Calvert, later assisted by Chinese forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, captured the town of Mogaung from the occupying forces of Imperial Japan.
August 1944: Siege of Lichfield.
May 1944: British conquest of Ritpong area.
1.13.1.First Arakan Campaign
Was the first tentative Allied attack into Burma, following the Japanese conquest of Burma earlier in 1942, during the Second World War.
April 1943: British units in Burma retreated back almost to the Indian frontier.
December 1942: The 14th Indian Division advanced to Rathedaung and Donbaik.
1.13.2.Allied offensive in Arakan
Was an Allied offensive in Arakan against the Japanese occupation of Burma, during World War II.
January 1944: The 5th Indian Division captured the small port of Maungdaw.
1.13.3.Operation U-Go
Was the Japanese offensive launched in March 1944 against forces of the British Empire in the northeast Indian regions of Manipur and the Naga Hills.
March 1944: Japanese advance up to Imphal.
June 1944: Battle of Kohima. The Japanese, reduced in many cases to a rabble, fell back to the Chindwin.
July 1944: The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in northeast India from March until July 1944. The Japanese, reduced in many cases to a rabble, fell back to the Chindwin.
April 1944: Japanese advance up to Kohima.
1.13.4.Allied reoccupation of Burma
Was an Allied offensive in Burma against the Japanese occupation, during World War II.
March 1945: The Sikhs occupied Pagan without resistance.
March 1945: British forces assault Meiktila.
March 1945: At Mandalay, British forces enter Fort Dufferin, finding that Japanese forces had withdrawn.
March 1945: Myingyan was captured by British forces after four days' fighting from 18 to 22 March.
April 1945: The British Fourteenth Armyseized Pyinmana. The town and bridge were captured before the Japanese forces could mount a defense.
April 1945: British Indian Division reached the town of Toungoo.
May 1945: The 26th Indian Division started to land as the monsoon began and took over Rangoon, which had seen an orgy of looting and lawlessness since the Japanese had left.
February 1945: During January, the Indian 19th Division and British 2nd Division cleared Shwebo.
December 1944: Bhamo was liberated on 15 December.
February 1945: Battle of Ramree Island: it lasted for six weeks after the initial landings on 21 January by the 26th Indian Division before the survivors of the small but tenacious Japanese garrison withdrew from the island.
January 1945: British forces cleared the Myebon Peninsula.
January 1945: The Japanese evacuated Akyab Island on 31 December 1944.
January 1945: Two British African divisions converged on Myohaung near the mouth of the Kaladan River, cutting the supply lines of the Japanese troops in the Mayu Peninsula.
February 1945: British forces reached Taungtha, halfway to Meiktila, by 24 February.
March 1945: British forces reached Lashio, which was captured on 7 March.
February 1945: The Indian 20th Division had a hard battle to take Monywa.
1.14.New Guinea Campaign
Was a military campaign that started when Japan invaded the island of New Guinea.
September 1942: By September 1942 most of New Guinea island is occupied by Japan.
February 1942: Battle of Rabaul.
July 1942: The Japanese occupied the village of Gona, Territory of Papua.
1.14.1.Kokoda Track Campaign
A series of battles fought between July and November 1942 by the Japanese invaders and the Allies, in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua.
January 1942: The Allies failed to neutralize the remaining Japanese positions near Sanananda.
July 1942: Japanese clash with Australian Maroubra Force near Awala, forcing Australians back toward Wairopi.
August 1942: Japanese forces occupy Kokoda.
August 1942: Isolated and under attack, the Japanese withdrew from Kokoda during the night of 9 August.
August 1942: Japanese attack Maroubra Force at Deniki in strength, forcing it back beyond Isurava, 5 miles from Deniki.
October 1942: Australian forces advanced to Kokoda Trail, in the vicinity of Eora Creek, where fighting continued with the Japanese.
November 1942: Australian 16th Brigade forces Japanese from Oivi toward Kumusi River mouth.
December 1942: Gona is taken by the Australians. Japanese sustain heavy casualties while trying unsuccessfully to withdraw from Gona to Giruwa.
January 1943: Australian forces capture Buna on 2 January 1943.
September 1942: The Japanese consolidated their defensive position at Imita Ridge.
1.14.2.Battle of Wau
Was a battle between the Allies and the Japanese forces in the area of Wau, New Guinea, during World War II.
March 1942: The Japanese landed on the Huon Gulf.
1.14.3.Japanese invasion of Dutch New Guinea
Was the Japanese invasion of the western part of New Guinea Island, at the time part of the Dutch East Indies.
April 1942: Japanese conquest of Babo.
April 1942: Hollandia conquered by japan.
1.14.4.Battle of Milne Bay
Was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Australian Territory of Papua.
August 1942: The Japanese had landed at Milne Bay on 25 August.
September 1942: Australian forces defeat the Japanese who leave Milne Bay.
1.14.5.Markham and Ramu Valley - Finisterre Range campaign
Was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
April 1944: Australian forces enter Madang, from which enemy has withdrawn.
October 1943: Battle of Dumpu.
September 1943: Australian forces take Kaipit.
January 1944: Battle of Shaggy Ridge.
September 1943: Australian amphibious assault at Scarlet Beach.
1.14.6.Salamaua-Lae campaign
Was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
September 1943: The Japanese garrison at Salamaua withdrew and it was captured by Austrlian forces.
September 1943: Australian forces continue to advance toward Lae.
1.14.7.Huon Peninsula campaign
Was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
October 1943: The Australian army takes control of Finschhafen and its airfield.
January 1944: US Army landing at Saidor.
November 1943: Sattelberg falls to troops of Australian 9th Division.
1.14.8.New Britain campaign
Was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
January 1945: Australian conquest of Kiep.
February 1945: Japanese conquest of Baia.
September 1945: Following the Surrender of Japan in 1945, civil administration of Papua and New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act (1945-46), Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union.
December 1944: Australian conquest of Cape Koas.
February 1945: Australian conquest of Kalai.
January 1944: Battle of Cape Gloucester.
December 1944: Japanese conquest of Bialla Plantation.
March 1944: Battle of Talasea.
January 1945: Australian conquest of Lolobau island, Ea Ea.
October 1944: Australian conquest of Cape Hoskins.
March 1945: Australian conquest of Tol.
December 1944: Australian conquest of Sampun.
1.14.9.Admirality Islands Campaign
Was a series of battles in the New Guinea campaign of World War II in which the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division took the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands.
March 1944: Australian conquest of Lugos.
March 1944: Australian advances during the Admirality Admirality Islands Campaign by March 17.
March 1944: Austrlian forces overrun Lorengau.
March 1944: Australian conquest of Rossum.
May 1944: The Admirality Islands Campaign is officially terminated by the Austrlian Sixth Army. The Islands are fully occupied.
March 1944: Australian advances during the Admirality Admirality Islands Campaign by March 9.
March 1944: Australian advances during the Admirality Admirality Islands Campaign by March 8.
March 1944: Australian advances during the Admirality Admirality Islands Campaign by March 16.
March 1944: Australian advances during the Admirality Admirality Islands Campaign by March 7.
March 1944: Austrlian conquest of Butjuo Luo Islands.
March 1944: Australian advances during the Admirality Admirality Islands Campaign by March 6.
1.14.10.Western New Guinea campaign
Was a battle between the Allies and the Japanese forces in Western New Guinea, a Dutch territory under Japanese occupation.
August 1944: The American Sixth Army, declares Sansapor operation terminated. Sansopor is occupied by American forces.
August 1944: Noemfoor is occupied by American forces.
April 1944: In Operation Reckless the U.S. 24th and the 41st Infantry Divisions landed at Tanahmerah and Humboldt bays.
April 1944: In Operation Persecution, the 163rd Regimental Combat Team- detached from the U.S. 41st Infantry Division - and the No. 62 Works Wing of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) simultaneously landed at Aitape.
October 1944: Morotai is occupied by American forces led by General Krueger.
August 1944: Battle of Biak.
1.15.Solomon Islands campaign
Was the battle between the Japanese Empire and the Allies in the Solomon Islands.
1.15.1.Japanese Invasion of the Solomon Islands
Japanese forces occupied the Solomon Islands in January 1942.
February 1942: Japanese forces occupied the Solomon Islands in January 1942.
May 1942: Japanese forces occupied Tulagi and nearby islands.
June 1942: The Japanese Navy established small garrisons on the other northern and central Solomon Islands.
1.15.2.Operation Cleanslate
Was the occupation of Russell Islands about sixty miles northwest of Guadalcanal by the United States.
February 1942: Unopposed Japanese seizure of the Russell Islands (Operation Cleanslate).
1.15.3.Guadalcanal Campaign
Was an Allied offensive against Japanese forces on the island of Guadalcanal and surrounding areas.
October 1942: Front line on the Solomon Islands by 23 october (Battle of henderson field).
November 1942: Allied forces land at Aola Bay.
February 1943: The Japanese evacuate the remaining forces from Guadalcanal. As resistence ends, Guadalcanal is occupied by Allied forces.
January 1943: The Allies renewed the offensive on 10 January, reattacking the Japanese on Mount Austen, capturing it on January 23rd.
August 1942: A British landing force split into two groups, with one group assaulting Guadalcanal, and the other Tulagi, Florida, and nearby islands.
August 1942: The Marines secured the island of Tulagi and nearby islets.
October 1942: a force of Marines successfully crossed the Matanikau River.
November 1942: Japanese forces are defeated on the coast at Point Cruz.
September 1942: British gains on the front line after the battle of Edson Ridge.
1.16.Battle of Timor
Was the Japanese invasion and occupation of Dutch Timor and Portuguese Timor during World War II.
February 1942: On the night of 19/20 February 1,500 troops from the Imperial Japanese Army's 228th Regimental Group, 38th Division, XVI Army, under the command of Colonel Sadashichi Doi, began landing in Dili.
February 1942: Surrender of Usua to the Japanese.
February 1943: Last Australian and Portuguese forces evacuated Timur.
August 1942: The Japanese secured the central town of Maubisse and the southern port of Beco.
1.17.Hukbalahap Rebellion
A rebellion staged by former Hukbalahap or Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon (People's Army against the Japanese) soldiers against the Philippine government. It started during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
March 1942: March 29, 1942 – May 17, 1954: a rebellion staged by former Hukbalahap or Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon (People's Army against the Japanese) soldiers against the Philippine government. It started during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
1.18.Japanese Invasion of Christmas Island
Japanese occupation of Christmas Island during World War II.
April 1942: Battle of Christmas Island: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops were able to occupy Christmas Island without any resistance.
1.19.Madagascar Campaign (World War II)
Was a British campaign to capture the Vichy French-controlled island of Madagascar during World War II.
May 1942: British forces land at Courier Bay in Madagascar, against little opposition from Vichy France forces.
September 1942: Amphibious landings at Majunga (Madagascar) by British and East African forces.
September 1942: A British East African Command lands without opposition on the coast of Tamatave (Madagascar).
September 1942: Tannanarive fell to British forces on 23 September.
November 1942: Ambalavao conquered by great britain.
November 1942: An armistice was signed in Ambalavao on 6 November 1942, and Madagascar colonial governor Armand Annet surrendered two days later to the Allies.
1.20.Aleutian Islands Campaign
Was a military campaign conducted by the United States, Canada, and Japan in the Aleutian Islands, part of the Territory of Alaska, in the American Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II.
June 1942: Japanese invade western Aleutians, landing some 1,800 men on Attu and Kiska.
May 1943: The U.S. 7th Division defeats the Japanese forces on Attu, which is liberated.
August 1943: The Americans and Canadians executed an unopposed landing on Kiska on 15 August, securing the island and ending the Aleutian Islands campaign.
1.21.Operation Cartwheel
Was a major military operation of the Allies in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Cartwheel was an operation aimed at neutralising the major Japanese base at Rabaul.
June 1943: Allied forces land unopposed at Segi Point (New Georgia).
July 1943: Allied forces attack Rendova where now most of Japanese forces are concentrated.
October 1943: Battle of Vella Lavella. U.S. forces engage Japanese naval forces and take Vella Lavella.
November 1943: Japanese raid on Choiseul - retreat of the allied forces.
November 1943: Battle of the Treasury Islands. New Zealand 3rd Division, completes elimination of small enemy garrison on Mono.
March 1944: Allied landing on Emirau.
June 1943: Unopposed allied landings on Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands.
June 1943: New Georgia Island is occupied by Australian and American forces. Scattered Japanese forces remain on the interior of the island.
August 1943: Allied forces land on Arundel at the southern tip of Nauro Peninsula without opposition.
October 1943: British raid on Choiseul.
1.21.1.Bougainville campaign
Was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan on the Island of Bougainville and its surroundings.
November 1943: At 7:30 a.m. on November 1, Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson's Task Force 31 began landing Gen. Allen H. Turnage's 3rd Marine Division in Empress Augusta Bay in the Cape Torokina sector.
December 1944: The Australians captured Pearl Ridge in December 1944.
August 1945: The last Japanese forces on Bougainville also surrendered as their country had six days earlier.
November 1943: The bulk of the US 73rd Division landed in Empress Augusta Bay.
1.22.Jesselton Revolt
9 October 1943 - 21 January 1944: a revolt by a resistance movement known as the Kinabalu Guerrillas, comprising local Chinese, indigenous peoples, Eurasian and Sikh Indian of Jesselton, North Borneo and led by Albert Kwok, against the Japanese occupying forces of North Borneo.
October 1943: 9 October 1943 – 21 January 1944: a revolt by a resistance movement known as the Kinabalu Guerrillas, comprising local Chinese, indigenous peoples, Eurasian and Sikh Indian of Jesselton, North Borneo and led by Albert Kwok, against the Japanese occupying forces of North Borneo.
1.23.Allied operations in Malysia
Were a series of events and battles that took place in modern-day Malaysia after its occupation ba the Japanese Empire.
September 1945: Formal surrender by Japan in the Straits Settlements to British Military Administration.
September 1945: Following the end of the war, Johor was placed under Great Britain's military occupation.
September 1945: The British recaptured Singapore, with the Japanese garrison on the island surrendering on 12 September.
September 1945: After the Singapore surrender, British forces reached Kuala Lumpur, where the Commander of the Japanese 29th Army surrendered.
September 1945: Borneo placed under a military administration on the Japanese capitulation in 1945.
1.24.Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
Was an offensive launched by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War.
October 1944: American forces overcome Japanese opposition on Angaur.
July 1944: Battle of Saipan: American forces occupy the Island.
August 1944: Tinian is occupied by American forces.
August 1944: At the end of August 1944, the Mariana Islands were in Allied hands.
November 1944: Japanese resistance in Peleliu (Palaus Islands) ends.
1.25.Philippines campaign
Was the American, Mexican, Australian and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.
1.25.1.Battle of Leyte
Was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines, occupied by Japan at the time, by American forces.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of Ormoc.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of Valencia.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of Paolompon.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of Villaba.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of San isidoro.
December 1944: The Japanese evacuated Leyte island.
December 1944: American avances during the Battle of Ormoc Bay.
October 1944: The U.S. Sixth Army, supported by naval and air bombardment, landed on the favorable eastern shore of Leyte.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of Irpil.
December 1944: U.S. conquest of the barrio of Tibur.
December 1944: U.S. liberation of Tabango.
1.25.2.Battle of Mindoro
Was a battle in World War II between forces of the United States and Japan, in Mindoro Island in the central Philippines.
December 1944: American forces invade Mindoro.
1.25.3.Battle of Luzon
Was a land battle of the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II by the Allied forces of the U.S., its colony the Philippines, and allies against forces of the Empire of Japan.
March 1945: American forces conclude operations in Manila, clearing the area.
June 1945: The Bessang Pass fall at the hands of the United States Army Forces in the Philippines - Northern Luzon (USAFP-NL) on June 14, 1945.
January 1945: American landings at the Lingayen Gulf on 9 January .
January 1945: American advance up to Clark Field and Fort Stotsenburg by January 31th.
February 1945: American forces conclude operations on the Bataan Peninsula, which is fully occupied.
1.25.4.Battle of the Mindanao
Was a battle fought by the Americans and allied Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese forces on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It was part of the campaign to liberate the Philippines during World War II.
March 1945: After an heavy fight, the center of the Japanese line in the Zamboanga peninsula broke.
April 1945: American amphibious operation to secure Malabang-Parang-Cotabato area of Mindanao.
May 1945: U.S. Eight Army clears Malaybalay-Kalasungay region.
May 1945: On 3 May, the U.S. 31st Division reached Kibawe.
March 1945: The American 41st Division troops quickly captured Zamboanga.
July 1945: Allied units seized Sarangani and Balut islands.
April 1945: By 22 April, the Allies took the position in Jolo after hard fighting and the rest of the Japanese troops fled and held out in the west for another two months.
June 1945: Battle of Davao.
April 1945: Upon reaching Digos, the Americans quickly overwhelmed the defending Japanese.
1.25.5.Battle of the Visayas
Was a battle fought by the Americans and allied Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese forces in the
Visayas region in the Philippines. It was part of the campaign to liberate the Philippines during World War II.
June 1945: By 4 June, the Japanese began a general withdrawal, retreating further into the unexplored mountains of Negros.
March 1945: The U.S. Eighth Army seizes Cebu City.
April 1945: The coastal plain of Negros was in Allied hands.
March 1945: On Talisay Beach, 6.5 km west of Cebu City, the 182nd Infantry and 132nd Infantry landed on 26 March 1945.
March 1945: Within two weeks of aerial bombardment on Japanese positions, the 40th Infantry Division, spearheaded by the 185th Infantry Regiment landed unopposed at Tigbauan district, in southern Panay.
March 1945: Guimaras and Inampulagan islands, between Panay and Negros, were freed on the same day Iloilo fell, 20 March and the next day, respectively with no opposition.
May 1945: Major combat operations continued in Dumuguate until 28 May 1945, when the Japanese positions fell and Filipino guerrillas assumed control.
March 1945: U.S. Eighth Army captured Bacolod City.
April 1945: Japanese retreat from southern Cebu.
August 1945: Negros Island was liberated from Japanese occupation.
1.26.Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign
Was an Allied military campaign in the Volcano Islands and Ryukyu Islands during World War II.
June 1945: U.S. Tenth Army completes capture of Okinawa.
March 1945: After a final attack by Japanese forces, Iwo Jima is captured and occupied. At 08:00 of 26 March 1945 American General Chaney assumes title of Island Commander.
1.27.Borneo Campaign
Was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II to liberate Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo.
June 1945: Battle of Tarakan.
1.27.1.Battle of North Borneo
Was a series of Allied amphibious landings in North Borneo to clear North Borneo from Japanese forces.
June 1945: Minor allied landings were made at Mempakul on 19 June.
June 1945: Sabang conquered by great britain.
June 1945: Kuala Belait was reached by British forces on 24 June.
June 1945: Battle of Beaufort.
July 1945: During July, guerrillas assigned to Operation Semut captured Marudi from the Japanese.
June 1945: Another landing was made by Allied forces on Borneo at Weston.
July 1945: By 12 July British forces occupied Papar.
June 1945: Uopposed British landing at Lutongù.
July 1945: Battle of Balikpapan.
June 1945: Brunei conquered by great britain.
June 1945: The British secured Limbang.
1.28.Soviet-Japanese War
Was a conflict during World War II that started when Soviet forces invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
1.28.1.Invasion of South Sakhalin
Was the Soviet invasion of the Japanese portion of Sakhalin Island during World War II.
August 1945: Keton conquered by russia.
August 1945: Toro conquered by russia.
August 1945: Tayohara conquered by russia.
August 1945: Otomari conquered by USSR.
August 1945: Maoka conquered by russia.
1.28.2.Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Was the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
August 1945: The Red Army forces were able to break through the hastily organized Japanese defenses and capture the city of Mutanchiang.
August 1945: The Red Army took Mukden, Xinjing and Qiqihar on August 20.
August 1945: The Mengjiang area was conquered by the Red Army and its Mongol allies, and Hohhot was quickly taken.
1.28.3.Seishin Operation
Was an amphibious assault on northern Korea between 13-17 August 1945, carried out by the forces of the Soviet Union.
August 1945: The Soviet 13th Naval Infantry brigade (in total 181 men under command of Colonel A. Z. Denisin) entered the city of Chongjin.
1.28.4.Invasion of the Kuril Islands
Was the World War II Soviet military operation to capture the Kuril Islands from Japan in 1945.
August 1945: Shimushu conquered by russia.
August 1945: Paramushiru conquered by russia.
August 1945: Etorufu conquered by russia.
August 1945: Uruppu conquered by russia.
September 1945: Kunashiri conquered by russia.
September 1945: Shikotan conquered by russia.
August 1945: Matsuwa conquered by russia.
September 1945: Habomai conquered by USSR.
1.29.Japanese Surrender (World War II)
Were the evacuation of the Japanese forces from occupied territories after the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan.
August 1945: After the dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan accepts the Allied unconditional surrender terms (14 August 1945). Japanese forces leave occupied territories.
August 1945: Japanese Taiwan and the Spratly Islands are placed under the authority of China.
August 1945: The Thai army evacuated Saharat Thai Doem (territories of British Burma it had received from Japan in 1943) in August 1945.
February 1946: After World War II, the Soviet Union gained control of the southern part of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands from Japan. This territorial transfer was confirmed in the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951.
August 1945: Hong Kong is re-occupied by the Royal Navy after Japanese surrender.
November 1945: In October 1945, British HMS Rother re-occupied Christmas Island.
August 1945: After the dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan accepts the Allied unconditional surrender terms (14 August 1945). The Japanese archipelago was effectively placed under the authority of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.
August 1945: The Kwantung Leased Territory was occupied by the Soviet Union.
November 1945: Thailand returns annexed territories to French Indochina.
September 1945: Japanese Surrender in the Solomon Islands.
September 1945: Thailand returns annexed territories to the United Kingdom.
Was the Eastern European theatre of World War II.
February 1942: Soviet offensive in the Rzhev area.
December 1942: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
February 1943: Kursk was retaken by the Soviets.
February 1943: Hitler arrived at Army Group South headquarters at Zaporizhia just hours before the Soviets liberated Kharkov.
July 1943: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
August 1943: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
December 1943: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
April 1944: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
June 1944: Restoration of the 1940 Romanian-Soviet border. Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia are annexed to the USSR.
August 1944: Territorial changes based on the known frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
December 1944: Territorial changes based on the known frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
January 1945: Frontline of the Soviet offensive to the Oder in that date.
February 1945: Frontline of the Soviet offensive to the Oder in that date.
March 1945: Frontline of the Soviet offensive to the Oder in that date.
May 1945: On 9 May Soviet troops landed on the island of Bornholm, and after a short fight, the German garrison (about 12,000 strong) surrendered.
February 1943: The Red Army occupies Rostov.
March 1944: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
April 1943: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
November 1943: Frontline of the eastern front of World War II in that date.
August 1943: The Lokot Republic was a semi-autonomous region in Nazi German-occupied Central Russia from 1941 to 1944.
May 1945: Prague uprising 5–9 May 1945.
2.1.Soviet occupation of the Baltic states
Was the Soviet invasion of the Baltic states in the early phase of World War II as agreed by Germany and the USSR in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
June 1939: On 15 June the USSR invaded Lithuania.
June 1939: The USSR invaded Estonia and Latvia.
August 1940: Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union.
August 1940: Latvia conquered by USSR.
June 1939: Only the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion stationed in Tallinn at Raua Street showed resistance to the Red Army and "People's Self-Defence" Communist militia, fighting the invading troops on 21 June 1940. As the Red Army brought in additional reinforcements supported by six armoured fighting vehicles, the battle lasted several hours until sundown. Finally the military resistance was ended with negotiations and the Independent Signal Battalion surrendered and was disarmed.
August 1940: Estonia conquered by USSR.
June 1939: On June 19, Stalin's representative for the Anschluss, Andrei Janyanevich Vyshinsky, appeared in Riga. Although Latvia was still an independent state, members of the leading social classes were arrested en masse by Soviet Chekists, deported to Russia or even shot.
June 1939: A new "popular front" governments were formed in each Baltic country.
2.2.Invasion of Poland
Was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union. It marked the beginning of World War II.
September 1939: The German armies opened their offensive on September 1 at 5:45 AM, crossing the Polish frontiers on all fronts. Athe Fourteenth army attacked with two groups, one in the Mahrisch Ostrau towards Cracow, and the second group from the Sillein area of northern Slovakia. At the same time the the Fourth Army reached the line Konitz-Nakel.
September 1939: Advancement of the German campaign in Poland by September 3rd.
September 1939: Polish forces around Piotrków surrender to the German 10th Army.
September 1939: On September 6, without opposition, the Mahrisch Ostrau group of the Fourteenth Army captured Cracow, principal city of southern Poland.
September 1939: The pocket at Radom is reduced by the German 14th Army.
September 1939: On September 9 the army had reached the line Dukla-Rzeszow-Kolbuszowa.
September 1939: By the 10th the German forces reached the the east bank of the San at Radymno and Jaroslav. The 1st German Mountain Division forced a crossing of the San at Sanok, in the Carpathian foothills.
September 1939: On the 11th, German forces were south of the Fort of Przemysl, and has also reached Sambor and Lemberg.
September 1939: Advancing rapidly on the 12th, the Third Army cut the railroad lines leading from Warsaw to Bialystok and Siedlce.
September 1939: Advancement of the German campaign in Poland by September 13th.
September 1939: Przemyśl is captured by the German Army.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 20 September.
September 1939: Advancement of the German campaign in Poland by September 20th.
September 1939: The Red Army occupies Lviv.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 23 September.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 25 September.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 26 September.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 28 September.
October 1939: The garrison of the Hela Peninsula, besieged by land and naval forces, surrendered to German forces on October 1.
October 1939: In 1939, Poland was divided between the Soviet Union and Germany as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
September 1939: Advancement of the German campaign in Poland by September 18th.
September 1939: Battle of Mława.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 19 September.
September 1939: German capture of Modlin.
October 1939: The Battle of Kock ends with the surrender of defending Polish forces. This is the final significant military resistance to the German or Soviet invasions.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 24 September.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 27 September.
September 1939: Kutno falls to the German 8th Army and Brest-Litovsk falls to the 3rd Army.
September 1939: The German Third Army captured Brest Litovsk on the 14th.
September 1939: Polish forces at Wieluń surrender to the German 10th Army.
September 1939: Advance of the German Invasion of Poland until 21 September.
September 1939: The Red Army invades eastern Poland.
October 1939: Warsaw surrendered to German forces on September, 27. German forces occupied the city ca. on October, 1st.
September 1939: Advance of the German Invasion of Poland until 22 September.
November 1939: Western Ukraine and Belarus are annexed by the Soviet Union.
September 1939: Soviet forces capture Wilno.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 21 September.
September 1939: Advancement of the German campaign in Poland by September 15th.
September 1939: Advance of the Russian Invasion of Poland until 29 September.
September 1939: Advance of the German Invasion of Poland until 30 September.
September 1939: The siege of Westerplatte concludes with the surrender of its remaining garrison to the Germans. Tarnów falls to the 14th Army.
2.2.1.German Annexation of Danzig
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis abolished the Free City of Danzig and incorporated the area into the newly formed Reichsgau of Danzig-West Prussia.
September 1939: After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis abolished the Free City of Danzig and incorporated the area into the newly formed Reichsgau of Danzig-West Prussia.
2.3.German administration of eastern teritories during World War II
Refers to administrative acts of Germany on the organization of militarly occupied territories in eastern Europe during World War II.
October 1939: With two decresse on 8 and 12 October 1939, Adolf Hitler re-organized the occupied territories in Poland. The part of Poland not annexed directly to the German Reich became the General Gouvernement under civilian administration.
July 1941: After the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Białystok Voivodeship, which included the Białystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Grajewo, Łomża, Sokółka, Volkovysk, and Grodno Counties, was "attached to" (not incorporated into) East Prussia.
October 1939: With two decresse on 8 and 12 October 1939, Adolf Hitler re-organized the occupied territories in Poland. West Prussia and the are of Poznan were annexed directly to Germany.
July 1941: East Galicia was added to the General Gouvernement.
2.4.Winter War
The Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The war began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
November 1939: Soviet forces invaded Finland.
December 1939: The Finnish Democratic Republic was a short-lived puppet state of the Soviet Union in Finland from December 1939.
December 1939: The Soviet 163rd Rifle Division captured Suomussalmi.
December 1939: The northern branch of the Finnish moved toward Pelkosenniemi .
December 1939: The Red Army approached Kemijärvi.
March 1940: The Finnish Democratic Republic was dissolved upon signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty ending the Winter War and merged into the government of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.
March 1940: In the battle of Salla, the Soviets proceeded easily to Salla.
March 1940: Battle of Petsamo.
March 1940: Moscow peace treaty: It was signed by the Soviet Union and Finland on March 12, 1940 and ratified on March 21, 1940. It established the new border between the USSR and Finland.
November 1939: Start of the Battle of Petsamo.
December 1939: Soviets reach Mannerheim line of Finnish resistance on the Karelian Isthmus.
January 1940: Retreat of the Reds after the battle of Suomussalmi.
November 1939: Finnish forces marched up to Salla.
2.4.1.Battles in Ladoga Karelia
Was the war front on the Ladoga Lake during the Winter War.
December 1939: In Northern Karelia, Soviet forces were outmanoeuvred at Ilomantsi and Lieksa. The Finns used effective guerrilla tactics, taking special advantage of their superior skiing skills and snow-white layered clothing and executing surprise ambushes and raids. By the end of December, the Soviets decided to retreat and transfer resources to more critical fronts.
December 1939: Soviet advancement in Finland by december, 12th.
2.4.2.Soviet offensive (Winter War)
Were Soviet offensives against Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War.
February 1940: Soviet offensive in Finland.
March 1940: Soviet offensive in Finland.
2.5.Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina
The Soviet Union had planned to accomplish the annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina with a full-scale invasion, but the Romanian government, responding to the Soviet ultimatum delivered on June 26, 1940, agreed to withdraw from the territories in order to avoid a military conflict.
July 1940: The Soviet Union had planned to accomplish the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina with a full-scale invasion, but the Romanian government, responding to the Soviet ultimatum delivered on June 26, agreed to withdraw from the territories in order to avoid a military conflict.
2.6.Hungarian Expansion from the Second Vienna Award
Refers to the second Vienna Award, the second of two territorial disputes arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It took place on 30 August 1940 and assigned Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
September 1940: The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Rendered on 30 August 1940, it assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania (including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana) from Romania to Hungary. Hungarian annexation of Northern Transylvania occured until 13 september 1940.
August 1940: The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Rendered on 30 August 1940, it assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania (including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana) from Romania to Hungary. Hungarian annexation of Northern Transylvania occured until 13 september 1940.
2.7.Legionnaires' Rebellion
Was a revolt by the Iron Guard, a Fascist paramilitary organization, in Romania.
January 1941: 21-23 January 1941: As the privileges of the Iron Guard paramilitary organization were being cut off gradually by the Conducător Ion Antonescu, its members, also known as the Legionnaires, revolted.
2.8.Operation Barbarossa
Was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies.
July 1941: On July 7, Germany occupied Žytomyr and Berdičev.
July 1941: German advances in USSR during Operation Barbarossa by July 9th.
November 1941: The Lokot Republic was established in central Russia by Bronislav Kaminski, a Russian collaborator with the Nazis.
August 1941: The Transnistria Governorate was established, which was not formally annexed to Romania unlike Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.
December 1941: German advances in USSR during Operation Barbarossa by December 5th.
September 1941: German advances in USSR during Operation Barbarossa during September 1941.
2.8.1.Baltic Operation
Refers to German operations that lead to the occupation of the Baltic states during the invasion of Russia of World War II.
June 1941: On the evening of June 22, the German 7th Panzer Division (Major General Hans von Funck) got into a major tank battle east of Olita (Alytus).
June 1941: Tauroggen is occupied by German forces.
June 1941: Fighting was fought around Polangen, the Soviet 10th Rifle Division's defenses were breached and it was forced to retreat north.
June 1941: The 8th Panzer Division (General Brandenberger), covered on the left by the 290th Infantry Division, took Georgenburg.
June 1941: The German LVI. Army Corps reached the Ukmerge area on 24 June.
June 1941: The German XXVIII. Army Corps attacked with the 122nd and 123rd Infantry Divisions near Neustadt and northwest of Sintautai.
June 1941: The breakthrough between Mariampol and Kalvarja was forced by the German Army.
June 1941: Heavy losses of Soviet troops during the counterattacks and lack of fuel and ammunition led to the fall of Kaunas and Vilna on June 24.
June 1941: The front parts of the Soviet 28th Panzer Division (Raseiniai) were wedged and lost 14 tanks and 20 guns, leaving the battlefield on the night of June 24th.
June 1941: German military occupation of Schaulen (today Šiauliai), Lithuania.
June 1941: On the morning of June 26, the 8th Panzer Division (General Brandenberger) and the 3rd Motorized Division (General Jahn) reached the Düna, taking Dünaburg and securing a bridgehead on the right bank of the river.
June 1941: German motorized corps reached the river at Krustpils on June 26.
June 1941: As late as June 28, Libau was occupied by the Germans without any particular resistance.
June 1941: At the end of June, the German 1st Army Corps with the 1st, 11th and 21st Infantry Divisions concentrated on the Düna in the Friedrichstadt area.
July 1941: Ventspils (Windau) was taken by the Germans on July 1st.
July 1941: East of Dünaburg near Kraslava the Düna crossing by the Germans took place on July 3rd.
July 1941: The pushed-off Soviet 42nd Panzer Division held out in the Dagda District until the evening of July 3.
July 1941: Units of the German LVI. motorized corps occupied Rezekne on July 4th.
July 1941: The Germans retook Ostrow.
July 1941: The German 217th Infantry Division, supported by the Navy, took Pernau on 9 July.
July 1941: German forces reached the Dorpat-Pernau line on July 10.
August 1941: On August 5, the German units reached Tallinn.
August 1941: On August 7th, 1941, German forces under the command of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb reached the coast of the Gulf of Finland at Kunda.
July 1941: On the evening of July 3, German troops occupied Gulbene.
July 1941: On July 6 the city of Ostrow fell back into German hands.
June 1941: On June 29, Jelgava (Mitau) was occupied by the German 18th Army.
June 1941: The German 121st Infantry Division attacked in the Wirballen area and was soon engaged in house-to-house fighting in Kibarten.
July 1941: German troops threw back the remnants of the Soviet 41st Rifle Corps across this river and occupied the western part of Pskov.
June 1941: The 3rd Infantry Division (motorized) of Germany advanced to Dubissa, where a bridgehead was established at Ariogala in the afternoon.
August 1941: On August 27, Admiral W. F. Tributz issued the order to evacuate his naval troops, on this day German troops entered Tallinn.
June 1941: Motorized corps of General Reinhardt reached the western Düna near Jakobstadt and Lievenhof.
July 1941: On July 1, the Soviet 8th Army was further withdrawn to the Gulbene - Lake Lubana line.
2.8.2.Battle of Białystok-Minsk
Was a German strategic operation conducted by the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre during the penetration of the Soviet border region. The operation loed to the occupation of Belarus.
June 1941: Minsk, the capital of Belarus, fell to the Wehrmacht.
2.8.2.1.German Invasion of Belarus
Was a German strategic operation conducted by the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre during the penetration of the Soviet border region. The operation led to the occupation of Belarus.
June 1941: By the night of 25 June, the Soviet counterattack was defeated, and the commander of the 6th Cavalry Corps was captured yb the Germans in Grodno.
2.8.3.Siege of Leningrad
Was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.
August 1941: The Germans Captured Tallinn by August 28.
September 1941: Finns captured the Beloostrov and Kirjasalo salients and conducted defensive preparations.
June 1941: Riga conquered by germany.
August 1941: The German XXVI. Army Corps reached the Luga sector near Kingisepp on August 17.
October 1941: Until mid-October the large Baltic islands were occupied by German forces.
September 1941: On September 8, the Wehrmacht captured Schlisselburg on the shore of Lake Ladoga.
2.8.4.Operation München (Bessarabia)
A joint German-Romanian offensive during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, with the primary objective of recapturing Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region, ceded by Romania to the Soviet Union a year before.
July 1941: On July 5, Chernivtsi, the capital of northern Bukovina, was captured by the Romanian 3rd and 23rd Vânători Battalions.
July 1941: On July 16, after heavy fighting, Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia, was taken by the Romanian 1st Armored Division (Divizia 1 Blindată).
July 1941: By July 26, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were under Romanian-German control.
August 1941: On August 17, Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were officially reintegrated into the Romanian state.
July 1941: By the evening of July 4, parts of the German XI. and XXX. Army corps broke through on the Stolnichena, Zaikany, Shuchulia, Kulugar-Sosh and Busila lines and broke through to Balti.
2.8.5.Battle of Kiev
Was the struggle between Germany and the USSR for the area of Kiev during World War II.
July 1941: The German forces managed to break through the fortified Stalin Line in the southeast portion of Zhytomyr Oblast.
July 1941: The Axis ground forces reached the Dnieper tributary Irpin River.
November 1943: Continuing to advance West of Kiev, Soviet forces take Zhitomir, important rail center.
September 1941: German occupation of Kiev.
2.8.6.Battle of Smolensk
Was the struggle between Germany and the USSR for the area of Smolenks during World War II.
September 1943: Bryansk is liberated by the Red Army during Smolensk operation.
September 1943: Soviet forces take Smolensk and Roslavl on central front.
September 1943: After four days of battle, Soviet rifle divisions captured Dukhovshchina.
September 1943: Yartsevo, an important railroad hub near Smolensk, was liberated by Soviet troops.
July 1941: German troops, commanded by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, conquered the city of Smolensk on July 15, while the battle could be considered concluded on the 26th with the liquidation of the last pockets of Soviet resistance, laying the foundations for the attack towards the capital.
2.8.7.Battle of Uman
Was the World War II German offensive in Uman, Ukraine, against the 6th and 12th Soviet Armies.
July 1941: Panzergruppe 1 occupied the important strategic point of Bila Tserkva.
August 1941: Battle of Uman.
2.8.8.Battle of the Sea of Azov
Was an Axis military campaign fought between 26 September 1941 and 11 October 1941 on the northern shores of the Sea of Azov during Operation Barbarossa.
October 1941: The Germans captured Melitopol and Berdiansk.
October 1941: Germans captured Kharkiv on 24 October.
2.8.9.Battle of Moscow - German Offensive
Was the attempt of German troops to conquer Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union.
October 1941: By 13 October 1941, the Wehrmacht had reached the Mozhaisk defense line.
October 1941: German forces captured the city of Kalinin and south Kaluga and Tula.
October 1941: Mozhaisk and Maloyaroslavets conquered by germany.
October 1941: Naro-Fominsk fell to the Germans on 21 October.
October 1941: Battle of Bryansk.
October 1941: Volokolamsk conquered by germany.
November 1941: The Germans took Stalinogorsk on 22 November 1941.
November 1941: Just northwest of Moscow, the Wehrmacht reached Krasnaya Polyana, little more than 29 km from the Kremlin in central Moscow.
October 1941: The Germans reached the outskirts of Tula until 26 October.
November 1941: Istra conquered by germany.
October 1941: Spearheads of the German 3rd and 4th Panzer Groups met at Vyazma.
November 1941: Solnechnogorsk conquered by germany.
November 1941: The German Third Panzer Army captured Klin after heavy fighting on 23 November.
2.8.10.Siege of Odessa
Was the siege of the city of Odessa, in the Soviet Union, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa.
October 1941: Siege of Odessa.
2.8.11.Battle of Rostov
Was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought around Rostov-on-Don between the Army Group South of Nazi Germany and the Southern Front of the Soviet Union.
October 1941: By 17 October 1941 the Mius River was crossed by the 14th Panzer Division and Taganrog was captured by German troops.
November 1941: On 21 November the Germans took Rostov.
November 1941: On 27 November the Soviet 37th Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Anton Ivanovich Lopatin, as part of the Rostov Strategic Offensive Operation, counter-attacked the 1st Panzer Army's spearhead from the north, forcing them to pull out of the city of Rostov.
2.8.12.Battle of Moscow - Soviet Counteroffensive
Was the counteroffensive of the Soviet troops against the Germans, that had put Moscow under siege.
December 1941: Soviet troops liberated Naro-Fominsk.
December 1941: Soviet armies retook Solnechnogorsk.
December 1941: The Red Army approaches Kaluga, south-west of Moscow (full liberation on 31 December).
January 1942: Maloyaroslavets conquered by USSR.
December 1941: A Soviet offensive liberated Kalinin and the Red Army reached Klin.
December 1941: The Red army takes Klin.
2.8.13.Russian Offensives in Leningrad
Was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.
December 1941: Germans retreated from Tikhvin back to the Volkhov River.
January 1944: Red Army units gain ground in Leningrad area. Germans forces pushed 60-100 km away from the city. Enemy is cleared from area between Tosno and Lyuban.
2.8.14.Operation Iskra
Was a Soviet military operation in January 1943 during World War II, that succesfully broke the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
January 1943: Schlüsselburg conquered by USSR.
January 1943: Soviet Reconquests from the Germans up to January 22.
2.8.15.Operation Polar Star
Was an operation conducted by the Soviet forces that succeeded in recapturing the Demyansk salient.
February 1943: A Soviet operation succeeded in retaking the Demyansk salient.
2.9.Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, as part of World War II.
December 1941: The Soviet Union withdrew its troops from the leased area in the Hankko peninsula.
2.9.1.Operation Silver Fox
Was a joint German-Finnish military operation during the Continuation War on the Eastern Front of World War II against the Soviet Union. The objective of the offensive was to cut off and capture the key Soviet Port of Murmansk.
June 1941: The German 2nd Mountain Division was able to secure the neck of Rybachy Peninsula, while the 3rd Mountain Division was able to penetrate the Soviet lines at the Titovka Valley, capturing a bridge over the river.
July 1941: The initial Finnish advance against its adversary, the 54th Rifle Division, was very successful. III Corps moved swiftly through the Arctic forest and defeated several Soviet regiments. It advanced 64 km to the canal between Lake Pyaozero and Lake Topozero in just 20 days.
2.9.2.Finnish invasion of Ladoga Karelia
Was the Finnish invasion of the region of Carelia in the area of lake Ladoga during the Continuation War.
July 1941: Loimola was captured by the Finnish forces.
July 1941: It took until July 17 for the Finnish VII Corps to finally reach the Jänisjoki River.
August 1941: By August 7 Finnish 2nd Division of the II Corps had already reached the shore of lake Ladoga at Lahdenpohja.
July 1941: The Finnish VI Corps reached the 1939 border on July 23.
July 1941: Finnish troops reached the shore of Lake Ladoga at Koirinoja.
July 1941: Soviet resistance on the eastern shore of the Jänisjärvi Lake, and clearing the resistance lasted until July 16.
July 1941: Finnish forces encircled the defenders and captured Salmi.
2.9.3.Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus
Was a military campaign carried out by Finland in 1941 where Finnish forces liberated the Karelian Isthmus.
August 1941: The Finnish 18th Division captured the town and crossing point of Antrea.
August 1941: Vyborg was captured by Finnish troops.
August 1941: The Finnish 15th Division's managed to capture the town of Hiitola.
August 1941: Finnish forces reached the old border with Russia.
August 1941: The Finnish 18th Division started its crossing of Vuoksi river.
2.9.4.Finnish invasion of East Karelia
Finnish troops occupied East Karelia during the Continuation War.
September 1941: The Finnish forces captured Olonets on September 5.
September 1941: Finnish advance by Group L reached Svir river.
September 1941: The Finnish 11th Division captured Pryazha.
October 1941: The Finnish forces captured Petrozavodsk.
December 1941: The Finnish spearhead captured the town of Poventsa.
2.9.5.Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive
Was a strategic operation by the Soviet on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II.
June 1944: Viipuri/Vyborg falls to Soviet forces of Leningrad Front, insuring safety of Leningrad and opening Gulf of Finland to Soviet fleet.
June 1944: Petrozavodsk conquered by USSR.
June 1944: Soviet units captured frontline trenches and destroyed fortifications, shattering the first Finnish defense line in the Valkeasaari sector.
June 1944: The Soviet Union's Karelian Front attacked in the Olonets sector of White Karelia on June 20. Weakened Finnish forces proved unable to stop the offensive which reached Olonets.
June 1944: The Soviet 21st Army's offensive reached the partially completed VT-line.
July 1944: The first Karelian Front 7th Army's units reached the U-line.
2.9.6.Moscow Armistice
Was an armistice signed by Finland on one side and by the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on September 19, 1944, ending the Continuation War.
September 1944: Armistice signed between Finland on one side, and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on September 19, 1944, ending the Continuation War. Karelia, Salla, Petsamo, and Porkkala fell to the Soviets.
2.9.7.Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive
Was a major military offensive during World War II, mounted by the Red Army against the Wehrmacht in 1944 in the Petsamo region.
October 1944: Despite intensive planning before the Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive, the initial attack on 7 October immediately met with problems. Poor visibility made it difficult to co-ordinate artillery and fire support, slowing the assault. Nevertheless, after some fierce fighting the Soviets broke through the German lines on the Titovka River.
2.10.German Crimean campaign
Was an eight-month-long campaign by Axis forces to conquer the Crimean Peninsula on the Eastern Front of World War II.
July 1942: Sevastopol surrendered to German forces on 4 July 1942.
November 1941: Simferopol, Feodosiya and Kerch were conquered in quick succession by German forces in November 1941.
2.11.Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
Was the struggle between Germany and the USSR for the control of the Kerch Peninsula during World War II.
May 1942: In 1942 the Germans occupied the city of Kerč again.
December 1941: While German Army Group South continues offensive against Sevastopol, Soviet Caucasian troops make an amphibious assault against Crimea and seize Kerch and Feodosia.
2.12.Demyansk Offensive Operation
Was the Soviet operation against a pocket of German troops encircled by the Red Army around Demyansk, south of Leningrad.
February 1942: Demyansk Pocket encircled by Soviet army.
January 1942: German gains during the Demyansk Offensive Operation.
2.13.Barvenkovo-Lozovaya Offensive
Was a Red Army operation in northeastern Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II.
May 1942: Soviet gains from the Barvenkovo-Lozovaya Offensive.
2.14.Case Blue
Was a German offensive whose goal was to capture the oild fields of Baku in the Caucasus.
July 1942: Japanese gains during the New Guinea Campaign.
July 1942: Battle of Voronezh.
August 1942: Stavropol conquered by germany.
August 1942: Maikop falls to German Army Group A.
August 1942: The western oil fields near Maikop were seized by German forces in a commando operation from 8-9 August.
August 1942: Elista, in the Kalmyk district south of Stalingrad, was taken by German forces on 13 August.
August 1942: German Army Group B presses in steadily on Stalingrad, spearhead reaching the Volga.
August 1942: From August-September, the Taman Peninsula and a part of the Novorossiysk naval base were captured by the Germans.
November 1942: Alagir was seized and the Alagir-Beslan-Malgobek line reached became the farthest German advance in the south.
November 1942: German gains during Case Blue.
September 1942: The Axis enjoyed greater success and on 1 September, the Germans took Khulkhuta, halfway between Elista and Astrakhan.
August 1942: In the south, the German advance was stopped north of Grozny, after taking Mozdok.
August 1942: German Army Group A reaches Pyatigorsk.
July 1942: Salsk was captured by German forces on 31 July.
August 1942: German gains during Case Blue.
July 1942: German gains during Case Blue.
2.15.Battle of Stalingrad
Was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (today Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
February 1943: On 2 February 1943, the German 6th army, having exhausted their ammunition and food, finally capitulated.
2.15.1.Operation Uranius
Was the codename of the Soviet Red Army's 19-23 November 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II which led to the encirclement of the Axis forces in the vicinity of Stalingrad.
November 1942: Red Army advances during Operation Uranus by 23 November.
November 1942: Red Army offensive, which continues to gain ground in Stalingrad sector.
November 1942: Red Army advances during Operation Uranus by 19 November.
2.15.2.Operation Winter Storm
A German offensive in December 1942 during World War II whose aim was to break the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad.
December 1942: Red Army advances during Operation Uranus by 12 December.
December 1942: Red Army advances during Operation Uranus by 21 December
December 1942: Red Army advances during Operation Uranus by 23 December
2.16.Operation Saturn
Was a Red Army offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in the Don and Chir rivers region.
January 1943: The Battle of Nikolayevka between the Axis Italian-German forces and Soviet troops , led to a chaotic retreat of the Italian Alpine Division.
February 1943: The Red army continues to close on Rostov, Kharkov and Kursk.
February 1943: By February 1st the Italian Alpini retreated to the Kharkov area, where the Axis forces successfully organized a line of defense.
2.17.Third Battle of Kharkov
Was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Army Group South of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov.
February 1943: The Germans successfully surrounded and destroyed a number of Red Army units south of the Samara River.
March 1943: Between 1-5 March the 4th Panzer Army, including the SS Panzer Corps, covered 80 kilometers and positioned itself only about 16 kilometers south of Kharkov.
March 1943: German forces recapture Kharkov.
2.18.Operation Büffel
Was a retreat conducted by the German Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front during the period 1-22 March 1943 to shorten the front by 370 km.
March 1943: German retreat to eliminate the Rzhev Salient and shorten the front with the Soviets.
2.19.Battle of Kursk
Was the struggle between Germany and the USSR for the control of the Kursk region during World War II.
July 1943: German offensive operation in July 1943 against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient.
August 1943: The Red Army reaches the outskirts of Kharkov.
August 1943: After heavy fighting, Kharkov was liberated by the Red Army.
August 1943: The Red Army captures Orel and Belgorod. The German 2nd Panzer Army is virtually destroyed during the Orel battle.
August 1943: Soviet counter-offensive in Kursk area.
2.20.Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943)
Was a Soviet military operation with the goal of liberating the Donetsk Basin, or Donbas, from the forces of Nazi Germany.
August 1943: Taganrog was liberated by Soviet troops.
September 1943: Kal'mius River conquered by USSR.
September 1943: Soviet troops liberated Horlivka and Artemivsk.
September 1943: Konstantikovka conquered by USSR.
September 1943: Sovieto liberation of Barvenkovo.
September 1943: Soviet forces driving along edge of Sea of Azov take Mariupol.
September 1943: As a result of a Soviet victory, the German Army had been forced to fall back more than 300 kilometer on the Panther-Wotan line along the Dnieper.
September 1943: Germans announce evacuation of Stalino.
2.21.Battle of the Dnieper
Was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II.
September 1943: Soviet forces take Sumy.
September 1943: Tschernigow conquered by USSR.
September 1943: Germans announce evacuation of Poltava, their last stronghold in the middle Dnieper.
September 1943: Red Army troops push through Poltava toward Kremenchug.
September 1943: Soviet troops occupy Kremenchug and eastern bank of the Dnieper in that area.
October 1943: On the Dnieper bend, Soviet forces successfully conclude struggle for Zaporodzhe, industrial center of the Ukraine.
October 1943: Dnepropetrovsk was liberated on October 25.
2.22.Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive
Was a Soviet strategic offensive whose goal was to clear the German-Romanian-Hungarian forces from most of the Ukrainian and Moldavian territories.
December 1943: By December 30, the Soviets were able to reach the new Rovno-Shepetovka-Zhmerinka-Vinnitsa-Hristinovka-Uman line.
January 1944: On January 4 Belaya Tserkov falls to Soviet forces.
January 1944: By the end of the operation on January 16, the front line in the eastern theater was east of Smela, west of Kirovograd and north of Novgorodka.
January 1944: Medvin and Boyarka fell into Soviet hands on January 26.
February 1944: Soviet forces liberated the city of Lutsk.
March 1944: On March 16 the Red Army occupied Bobrines.
March 1944: By March 18, 1944, the Soviet advance led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov had reached Kovel, a city in western Ukraine.
March 1944: Highway and rail junction of Vinnitsa falls to troops of First Ukrainian Front.
March 1944: Cernauti (Bessarabia) falls to Soviet forces of First Ukrainian Front.
December 1943: Soviet forces overwhelm enemy at Korosten .
December 1943: The Soviets liberated Kasatin on December 28.
December 1943: Soviet troops of Second Ukrainian Front overrun Cherkassy.
March 1944: Soviet forces break into Tarnopol, where prolonged street fighting ensues.
March 1944: On March 7, Soviet troops crossed the Gorni Tikich River.
March 1944: Mogilov-Podolsky was taken by Soviet forces on March 19th.
February 1944: The Red Army reached the Ingulez River on February 29.
March 1944: Soviet forces on the offensive South-West of Smela capture Uman, German air base.
April 1944: Odessa, important Black Sea port, is liberated by Soviet forces.
March 1944: On March 23, Czortków was liberated by the Soviet Red Army.
March 1944: On March 26, the Soviet Army liberated Kamenets-Podolsky.
March 1944: The Red Army liberated the town of Balta on March 29.
February 1944: Shepetovka, rail center West of Kiev near prewar Polish border, falls to troops of First Ukrainian Front.
March 1944: Forces of First Ukrainian Front make progress SW of Rowno, overrunning Dubno
March 1944: After three days of heavy fighting, parts of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps (Lieutenant General A. I. Rodimtzev) entered Pervomaisk.
April 1944: The Soviet 40 Army captured Botoșani.
January 1944: On January 3, 1944, the Soviets liberated Novograd-Volynsky.
January 1944: Red Army forces overrun Berdichev, rail junction southwest of Kiev.
February 1944: Moscow announces major breakthrough by troops of Third Ukrainian Front in region northeast of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol where Apostolovi, rail junction between the 2 places, is overrun.
April 1944: Tiraspol is liberated by the Red Army.
February 1944: On February 3rd, the Soviet 13th Army took the important railway junction of Sdolbunov.
2.23.Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive
Was a Soviet strategic offensive whose goal was to end the German siege of Leningrad.
January 1944: On January 19, the Red Army recaptured Krasnoye Selo and Ropsha from German occupation.
February 1944: The city of Luga was captured by Soviet troops on February 12.
February 1944: On February 15 the Red Army reached the Narva the eastern shore of Lake Peipus.
March 1944: By the end of February, the Soviets reached the Pskov-Ostrov lines of defense.
January 1944: On January 30, Pushkin Gatchina fell to the Red Army.
2.24.German invasion of Hungary
Was the occupation of Hungary by German Nazi troops during World War II.
March 1944: The Germans occupy Hungary.
2.25.Red Army Crimean Offensive
Was a series of offensives by the Red Army that ended with the evacuation of Crimea by the Germans.
April 1944: On the morning of April 11, the Soviet 19th Panzer Corps under Major General Vasilyev occupied Dzhankoi.
April 1944: Eupatoria, Simferopol and Feodosiya were occupied by USSR forces on April 13.
May 1944: Sevastopol falls to Soviet forces.
April 1944: Soviet Independent Maritime Army captures Yalta, in the Crimea.
April 1944: Soviet forces in the Crimea break through enemy defenses on Kerch Peninsula to seize Kerch.
2.26.Operation Bagration
Was the Soviet offensive against German-occupied Belarus during World War II.
2.26.1.Vitebsk-Orsha Offensive
Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Vitebsk and Orsha were conquered from the Germans.
June 1944: The Soviets reached the Berezina River by 28 June.
June 1944: Red Army overruns Orsha, North-East of Minsk.
2.26.2.Bobruysk Offensive
Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Bobruysk was liberated.
June 1944: The Red Army envelops Bobruysk.
2.26.3.Polotsk Offensive
Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Polotsk was liberated.
July 1944: USSR Troops of First Baltic Front overrun Polotsk.
2.26.4.Minsk Offensive
Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Minsk was liberated.
July 1944: Minsk falls to Third and First White Russian Fronts.
2.26.5.Vilnius Offensive
Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Vilnius was liberated.
July 1944: Molodechno was taken by Soviet units of the 11th Guards Army, 5th Guards Tank Army and 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps on 5 July.
July 1944: The city of Vilnius fell to the Red Army on 13 July.
July 1944: Soviet forces reached Vilnius, held by units of the German 3rd Panzer Army.
2.26.6.Belostock Offensive
Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Białystok (Poland) was liberated.
July 1944: Soviet converging columns of Third and Second White Russian Fronts overrun Grodno, rail and road junction on route to East Prussia.
July 1944: The Soviet 3rd Army reached the outskirts of Białystok itself, despite strong resistance from the LV Corps. It stormed the city and took it.
2.26.7.Šiauliai Offensive
Was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from 5 July to 29 August 1944. It drove German troops from much of Lithuania, with the main tactical objective being the city of Šiauliai.
August 1944: Soviet advances during Operation Bagraton and Šiauliai Offensive.
August 1944: Soviet troops liberated the cities of Jelgava and Kaunas.
July 1944: On 27 July the Red Army captured Šiauliai and Daugavpils.
July 1944: By July 22 Soviet troops had captured Panevežys.
2.26.8.Lublin-Brest Offensive
Strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army to clear the Nazi German forces from the regions of Eastern Poland and Western Belarus.
July 1944: Soviet troops of First White Russian Front overrun Lublin.
July 1944: Troops of First White Russian Front overrun Brest Litovsk.
August 1944: By 2 August, the 1st Belorussian Front’s left wing armies seized bridgeheads over the Vistula at Magnuszew (Chuikov's 47th Army) and Puławy.
2.26.9.Kaunas Offensive
Was an offensive of the Soviet Red Army to clear the area of Kaunas from German forces.
July 1944: Using the success of the Tank Corps, the troops of the Soviet 33rd Army entered and secured Vilkaviškis and the railway station of Mariampolė.
July 1944: The German resistance on the approaches to the Neman was broken.
2.26.10.Osovets Offensive
Was an offensive of the Soviet Red Army to clear the area of Osowiec (Poland) from German forces.
August 1944: Joseph Stalin's Order no. 166 for that day noted the capture of the fortress of Osowiec.
2.27.Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive
Was a major Red Army operation to force the German troops out from Ukraine and Eastern Poland.
July 1944: The Soviet Mobile Group advanced quickly, under cover of air support, and over the next three days managed to capture the town of Kamionka Strumilowa.
July 1944: Columns of First Ukrainian Front take Lwow
August 1944: Soviet commander Pavel Rybalko is able to expand the Soviet controlled area in the Lvov-Sandomierz region by a depth of 120 kilometers, capturing the city of Sandomierz.
2.28.Battle of Narva
With the Narva Offensive, 24-30 July 1944, the Red Army captured the town of Narva.
July 1944: With the Narva Offensive, 24-30 July 1944, the Red Army captured the town of Narva.
2.29.Warsaw Uprising
1 August - 2 October 1944: a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
August 1944: 1 August – 2 October 1944: Warsaw Uprising […] a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
2.30.Tartu Offensive
Was the Soviet offensive to clear the Tartu area (Estonia) from the German forces on the Eastern Front of World War II.
August 1944: The USSR Captured the town of Võru on 13 August.
August 1944: Tartu falls to forces of Third Baltic Front.
2.30.1.Riga Offensive
Was the Soviet operation to conquer Riga as part of the larger Baltic offensive on the Eastern Front during World War II.
October 1944: Riga was taken by forces of the Soviet 3rd Baltic Front.
2.31.Battle of Romania
The Soviet Operations to drive out the Axis powers from Romania during World War II.
September 1944: Soviet advance in Romania on 8 September 1944.
September 1944: By 24 September 1944, nearly all of Romania was under Allied control.
2.31.1.Jassy-Kishinev Offensive
Was a Soviet offensive against Axis forces in Eastern Romania during World War II.
August 1944: Troops of the USSR 7th Guards Army stormed Bacău and the 40th Army took Târgu Neamț.
August 1944: Focsani falls to troops of Second Ukrainian Front. Galati, third largest city in Rumania and chief port on the Danube, to those of Third Ukrainian Front.
August 1944: Tolbukhin's troops took the port cities of Brăila and Sulina on August 28.
August 1944: The evacuation of the encircled enemy on the left bank of the Prut River was completed by troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front by August 29.
August 1944: Troops of Second Ukrainian Front overrun Bucharest, capital of Rumania
2.32.Slovak National Uprising
Was a military uprising organized by the Slovak resistance movement during World War II in central Slovakia.
August 1944: 29 August – 28 October 1944.
2.33.Baltic Offensive
Was the campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944 that resulted in the Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States.
2.33.1.Tallinn Offensive
Was a strategic offensive by the Red Army against the German Army in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II.
September 1944: Soviet forces site Tallinn.
2.33.2.Moonsund Operation
The Moonsund landing operation was an amphibious operation by the Red Army that cleared the West Estonian archipelago from German troops.
October 1944: Soviet conquest of the island of Ösel.
November 1944: Soviet conquest of the island of Ösel.
October 1944: Soviet conquest of the island of Moon and part of the island of Ösel.
2.33.3.Battle of Memel
Was a battle which took place on the Eastern Front during World War II resulting in the Soviet conquest of Klaipėda (Memel).
January 1945: German forces abandon Memel, which is occupied by Soviet forces shortly after.
2.34.Lapland War
Was a series of fights between Finland and Germany at the end of World War II when German troops were leaving Finland, which had been a German ally until the end of 1944.
October 1944: German troops were in northern Finland in order to support the country against Russia. Between September 1944 and April 1945 all german soldiers left finland after a series of minor battles.
2.35.Battle of Debrecen
Was a battle taking place 6-29 October 1944 on the Eastern Front in Hungary during World War II.
2.36.Soviet Invasion of Hungary
Was the Soviet invasion of German-occupied Hungary during World War II.
April 1945: Soviet operations in Hungary ended on 4 April 1945, when the last German troops were expelled.
2.36.1.Battle of Budapest
Was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the German-occupied Hungarian capital of Budapest.
October 1944: The Red Army started its offensive against the city of Budapest.
2.36.2.Operation Spring Awakening
Was the last major German offensive of World War II. It took place in Western Hungary on the Eastern Front and lasted from 6 March until 15 March, 1945. The objective was to secure the last significant oil reserves still available to the European Axis powers and prevent the Red Army from advancing towards Vienna. It was a failure for Nazi Germany.
March 1945: Soviet counterattack in Hungary.
March 1945: Soviet forces continue to advance in Hungary towards Austria.
March 1945: German occupation of Balaton lake region (line of 15 march).
2.37.Gumbinnen Operation
Was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front late in 1944, in which Soviet forces attempted to penetrate the borders of East Prussia.
October 1944: Gumbinnen was reached by the Soviets by 22 October.
November 1944: The town of Gumbinnen was again taken by the German 5th Panzer Division.
October 1944: Gumbinnen was retaken by German forces on the 24 October.
October 1944: The Germans lost Gumbinnen on October 25th.
2.38.Vistula-Oder Offensive
Was a Soviet offensive were German-held territories of Kraków, Warsaw and Poznań were conquered.
January 1945: The Soviet 69th Army ruptured the last lines of defence and took Radom.
January 1945: The Soviet First Ukrainian Front takes Kielce.
January 1945: First White Russian Front overruns Warsaw, capital of Poland.
January 1945: First Ukrainian Front seizes and Cracow.
January 1945: First White Russian Front takes Łódź.
January 1945: The Red Army reached the Baltic coast of the Vistula delta.
January 1945: The Red Army reached Katowice.
January 1945: The Soviet 2nd Guards Tank and 5th Shock Armies reached the Oder almost unopposed. A unit of the 5th Shock Army crossed the river ice and took the town of Kienitz as early as 31 January.
2.39.Soviet Invasion of Slovakia
Was the Soviet invasion of Slovakia near the end of World War II.
January 1945: The Red Army occupied Bardejov, Svidník, Prešov and Košice in eastern Slovakia.
March 1945: On March 3-5 the Soviets took northwestern Slovakia.
March 1945: In Czechoslovakia, troops of Second Ukrainian Front take communications center of Banska Bystrica.
April 1945: Important communications center of Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) falls to troops of Second Ukrainian Front.
2.40.East Prussian Offensive
Was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht in East Prussia during World War II.
January 1945: Second White Russian Front seizes Allenstein and Deutsch-Eylau.
March 1945: Some 15 divisions of the German 4th Army had become encircled on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in what became known as the Heiligenbeil Pocket. After bitter fighting, these units were finally overcome on 29 March.
April 1945: Organized resistance in East Prussia ends as Königsberg fortress falls to troops of Third White Russian Front
April 1945: In East Prussia, troops of Third White Russian Front overrun Pillau, at tip of Samland Peninsula.
January 1945: Rokossovsky's leading tank units had reached the shore of the Vistula Lagoon.
2.41.Battle of Küstrin
Was the Soviet offensive against German forces in the area of Küstrin (today Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland).
February 1945: On February 2, 1945, Soviet troops occupied the fortress of Küstrin.
2.42.Siege of Breslau
Was a three-month-long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) by Soviet Troops at the End of World War II.
May 1945: After a three-month-long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), fell to the Soviets.
February 1945: In German Silesia, Soviet forces gain ground North-West of Breslau.
2.43.East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive
Was an offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht in Pomerania and West Prussia from 10 February to 4 April 1945.
March 1945: On March 5th the Red Army reached the Baltic coast and occupied Kammin.
March 1945: Sopot fell into Soviet hands on March 23.
April 1945: The German formations north-west of Danzig on the Oxhöfter Kämpe and on the Hela peninsula, as well as the German units stationed near Stutthof, continued to resist until April 9, 1945.
March 1945: Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov occupied Stolpmünde, a town in present-day Poland.
March 1945: As early as March 1, the Soviets had again penetrated east of Koslin to the Baltic Sea.
March 1945: Troops of Second White Russian Front complete capture of Danzig.
February 1945: In checkered fighting, Deutsch-Briesen fell into Soviet hands on February 16.
February 1945: Red Army overruns Schneidemuehl (North-East Prussia).
March 1945: On March 8, the 1st Guards Tank Army was temporarily assigned to Rokossovsky's front, parts of the 3rd Guards Tank Corps and the 132nd Rifle Corps of the 19th Army (General Koslow) jointly occupied the town of Stolp.
March 1945: Russian troops reach coast at Koeslin.
March 1945: On March 28, the Red Army took Gotenhafen (modern-day Gdynia).
2.44.Vienna Offensive
Was an offensive launched by the Red Army in order to capture Vienna, Austria, during World War II. .
April 1945: The Red Army penetrated Klosterneuburg with the 20th and 22nd Guards Tank Brigades.
March 1945: The German bridgehead at Komárom was eliminated by Soviet forces.
April 1945: Second Ukrainian Front gains ground North of Vienna. Troops of Third Ukrainian Front continue to clear region West of Vienna and overrun Fuerstenfeld, East of Graz.
April 1945: The Soviet 23rd Panzer Corps (Lieutenant General Akhmanov) occupied Deutsch-Wagram on April 11.
April 1945: On April 8, Soviet forces also landed on the left bank of the Danube opposite Orth and near Mannsdorf.
April 1945: The German 96th Infantry Division and the 101st Jäger Division had to evacuate Gänserndorf and Angern on April 10th.
2.45.Battle of Berlin
The German Ninth Army, encircled in a large pocket in the Spree Forest region south-east of Berlin, attempted to break out westwards through the village of Halbe but was defeated.
May 1945: Battle of Halbe: The German Ninth Army, encircled in a large pocket in the Spree Forest region south-east of Berlin, attempted to break out westwards through the village of Halbe but was defeated.
May 1945: Fighting between German and Soviet forces in Berlin.
2.46.Prague Offensive
Was the last major military operation of World War II in Europe, fought by the Soviets to liberate Prague. The offensive continued for 2 days after the capitulation of Germany.
May 1945: Soviet forces finish clearing Czechoslovakia and Austria and begin to mop up isolated remnants.
May 1945: Troops of Fourth Ukrainian Front overrun Olmütz.
Was the Western European theatre of World War II.
May 1940: Hitler announced the re-integration of Eupen-Malmedy into Germany while the rest of Belgium remained under military occupation.
June 1940: German occupation of the Channel Islands, which lasted for most of World War II.
August 1942: Luxembourg was annexed by Germany into Gau Moselland.
April 1945: The Slovak Republic was abolished after the Soviet occupation in 1945.
June 1944: Following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and the liberation of France later that year, the Free French Provisional government of the French Republic (GPRF) was installed as the new national government, led by de Gaulle.
September 1943: The Italian surrended to the Allies in September 1943 and the Germans took over the Italian occupation zones in France.
September 1944: End of the German Occupation of Monaco.
September 1943: In September 1943, following Mussolini's fall in Italy, the German Army occupied Monaco and began the deportation of the Jewish population.
November 1942: On 11 November 1942, the Italian Army invaded and occupied Monaco.
3.1.Saar Offensive
Was the French invasion of Saarland, Germany, in the first stages of World War II.
September 1939: The French held German territory along all of the Rhine-Moselle front, but after the collapse of Poland, General Maurice Gamelin on 21 September ordered French units to return to their starting positions on the Maginot Line. On 17 October the withdrawal was complete.
September 1939: The French 32nd Infantry Regiment made further gains on 12 September, seizing the German town of Brenschelbach.
September 1939: The French occupied most of the Warndt Forest.
September 1939: The French army advanced to as far as 8 kilometres in some areas of Germany, and captured about 12 towns and villages unopposed: Gersheim, Medelsheim, Ihn, Niedergailbach, Bliesmengen, Ludweiler, Brenschelbach, Lauterbach, Niedaltdorf, Kleinblittersdorf, Auersmacher, and Sitterswald.
3.2.Norwegian Campaign
Was the struggle for the control of Norway between Germany and the Allies that ended with the German military occupation of that country.
April 1940: Bergen and Trondheim are captured by Germany.
April 1940: In Oslo, the Norwegian government has left, and Vidkun Quisling becomes the head of the new government.
April 1940: The British 146th Brigade is forced to withdraw from Steinkjer by German forces.
May 1940: Norwegian and Allied forces attack Narvik, entering the town after a short fight.
April 1940: Allied forces decide to withdraw from Namsos and Åndalsnes, abandoning the effort against German forces at Trondheim.
May 1940: Territorial change based on available maps.
April 1940: British forces land at Namsos and Harstad as Anglo-French forces prepare to launch operations against German forces at Trondheim and Narvik.
May 1940: German forces enter Åndalsnes.
May 1940: Anglo-French forces land at Mosjøen to block German advances to Narvik.
April 1940: The Narvik landing force evades British naval forces and defeats the Norwegian vessels in the fjord.
April 1940: British forces land at Åndalsnes.
April 1940: German air-landed soldiers land at and capture the airport at Oslo.
May 1940: French Foreign Legion and Polish forces land at Tromsø and Harstad.
April 1940: Kongsberg fell to German forces without a fight.
April 1940: German forces moved north from Oslo reach Lillehammer and captured the town.
April 1940: Egersund is captured without resistance by the Germans, as is Arendal.
June 1940: The surrender of Norway to the German invading force is complete and resistance is ended.
3.3.Administrative changes of occupied Denmark and its possessions during World War II
Were the administrative territorial changes of Denmark (occupied by Germany) and its overseas territories (free from German occupation) during World War II.
April 1940: Lasting approximately four hours, the German ground campaign against Denmark was one of the shortest military operations of the Second World War.
April 1941: On 9 April 1941, the Danish envoy to the United States, Henrik Kauffmann, signed a treaty with the U.S. authorizing it to defend Greenland and construct military stations there. Kauffmann was supported in this decision by the Danish diplomats in the United States and the local authorities in Greenland. Signing this treaty "in the name of the King" was a clear violation of his diplomatic powers, but Kauffmann argued that he would not receive orders from an occupied Copenhagen.
May 1940: The United Kingdom occupied Iceland to pre-empt a German occupation.
May 1945: German forces in North West Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands surrender.
May 1945: Following the liberation of Denmark and the end of World War II in Europe, the occupation of the Faroe Islands was terminated in May 1945 and the last British soldiers left in September.
August 1943: Germany occupied Denmark in Operation Weserübung. The king and government functioned as normal in a de facto protectorate over the country until 29 August 1943.
June 1944: Iceland dissolved its union with Denmark and the Danish monarchy and declared itself a republic.
May 1945: On 5 May 1945, Greenlanders celebrated the liberation of Denmark in Nuuk. The Greenland Administration under Eske Brun surrendered its emergency powers and again came under direct control from Copenhagen.
May 1940: After the occupation of Denmark, British forces from 12 April 1940 made a pre-emptive bloodless invasion of the Faroe Islands to prevent their occupation by German troops.
July 1941: The defence of Iceland was transferred from Britain to the United States.
3.4.German Invasion of Luxembourg
Was the German Invasion of Luxembourg during World War II.
May 1940: The battle for Luxembourg began on 10 May 1940 and lasted just one day. Facing only light resistance, German troops quickly occupied Luxembourg.
3.5.German Invasion of Netherlands
Was the German Invasion of the Netherlands during World War II.
May 1940: Battle of Maastricht.
May 1940: Battle of Mill.
May 1940: Battle of the Grebbeberg.
May 1940: Battle of Zeeland.
May 1940: After the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch surrendered in the late afternoon of 14 May, signing the capitulation early the next morning.
May 1940: Battle of Rotterdam.
3.6.German Invasion of Belgium
Was the German Invasion of Belgium during World War II.
May 1940: Battle of Fort Eben-Emael.
May 1940: The Belgian Command withdrew its forces behind the Namur-Antwerp line.
May 1940: When news of the German breakthrough at Sedan reached Prioux, the French withdrew from Gembloux.
May 1940: The Germans reached the outskirts of Bruges, and captured Ursel.
May 1940: Nevele, Vynckt, Tielt and Iseghem fall on the western and central part of the Leie front.
May 1940: The Germans captured Terneuzen and Ghent that day.
May 1940: The outnumbered Belgians abandoned Brussels and the Government fled to Ostend. The city was occupied by the German Army on 17 May.
May 1940: Battle of Boulogne.
3.7.German Invasion of France
The Battle of France was the German invasion of France during World War II that ended with the French Armistice of Compiègne on 22 June 1940.
3.7.1.Central Front of the German Invasion of France (World War II)
Was the front of the Meuse Line during the German invasion of France in World War II.
May 1940: The German advance forces reached the Meuse line late in the afternoon.
May 1940: German advance in Belgium.
May 1940: Stonne changed hands 17 times and fell to the Germans for the last time in the evening.
June 1940: Battle of Dunkirk.
May 1940: Battle of Montcornet.
May 1940: On 12 May, Sedan was captured without resistance and the Germans defeated the French defences around Sedan on the west bank of the Meuse.
3.7.2.Fall Rot
Was the operation to complete the conquest of France by the German Army during the Battle of France.
June 1940: Frontline of the Battle of Belgium in that date.
June 1940: German advance in France.
June 1940: On 14 June, Paris fell to the German forces. The Parisians unable to flee the city found that in most cases the Germans were extremely well mannered.
June 1940: German conquest of Rennes.
June 1940: German conquest of Nantes.
June 1940: German conquest of Brest.
June 1940: German advances in France by June, 25th 1940.
June 1940: The German 7th Panzer Division headed west over the Seine river through Normandy and captured the port of Cherbourg on 18 June.
June 1940: The remnants of French Army 2 Group are encircled by German forces.
3.7.3.French Armistice
Was the Armistice of 22 June 1940 when France surrendered to Germany during World War II.
3.7.3.1.Franco-German Armistice
The French Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. The armistice partitioned France: northern and central France were militarly occupied by Germany, Alsace-Lorraine was inglobated into the German State, and the remainder of France became Vichy France, a regime loyal to Germany.
June 1940: The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. It did not come into effect until after midnight on 25 June. Northern and coastal France fell under direct German occupation, whereas a French government aligned with Germany ("Vichy France") was established in the south. Alsace-Lorraine was annexed to Nazi Germany.
3.7.3.2.Franco-Italian Armistice
The Franco-Italian Armistice, or Armistice of Villa Incisa, signed on 24 June 1940.
June 1940: Franco-Italian Armistice, or Armistice of Villa Incisa, signed on 24 June 1940, in effect from 25 June. Some regions of southern France remained under Italian occupation.
3.8.Overall Frontline (Belgium and France)
Refers to the battles on the northern French and Belgian front during the German invasion of the region.
May 1940: Frontline of the Battle of Belgium in that date.
May 1940: Surrender of French troops in Calais.
May 1940: Defensive Perimeter around Dunkirk established. The Germans occupy the surroundings of Dunkirk.
June 1940: Evacuation of British and Belgian forces from Dunkirk completed.
May 1940: Antwerp and Suarlee fell to Germany on 19 May.
3.9.Italian invasion of France
Was the invasion of southern France by Fascist Italy during the Battle of France.
June 1940: German forces occupied Les Granges-Saint-Paul.
June 1940: That day the fort of Pont Saint-Louis engaged in its last artillery duel with the Italians. No vehicles managed to cross the bridge before the armistice. The capture of "the pearl of France", Menton, a famous tourist destination, was "an undeniable success" (despite its cost) for the Italians.
June 1940: After eliminating the French field fortifications with artillery fire, the Germans took the city of Bramans.
3.10.Ardennes Counteroffensive
Was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
3.10.1.German Offensive in Yugoslavia
German offensive during the World War II Axis invasion of Yugoslavia.
April 1941: Late in the afternoon of the 10th April German Tanks entered the city of Zagreb.
April 1941: SS-Obersturmfuehrer (1st Lt.) Klingenberg of the 2d SS Motorized Infantry Division entered Belgrade with an SS patrol. The mayor of Belgrade officially handed over the city to Klingenberg
3.10.2.Allied Counteroffensive
Allied military operations to liberate Belgium and Luxembourg during World War II.
January 1945: Territorial changes based on the known frontline of the western front of World War II in that date.
3.11.Case Anton
Was the military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Germany and Italy in November 1942. It marked the end of the Vichy regime as a nominally-independent state and the disbanding of its army, but it continued its existence as a puppet government in Occupied France.
November 1942: Military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Germany and Italy in November 1942. It marked the end of the Vichy regime as a nominally-independent state and the disbanding of its army (the severely-limited Armistice Army), but it continued its existence as a puppet government in Occupied France.
3.12.Siegfried Line campaign
Was a phase in the Western European campaign of World War II which involved actions near the German defensive Siegfried Line.
September 1944: Territorial changes based on the known frontline of the western front of World War II in that date.
September 1944: German garrison of Le Havre surrenders.
September 1944: Allied liberation of Antwerp.
3.12.1.Clearing the Channel Coast
Was a World War II operation undertaken by the First Canadian Army in August 1944 to capture the French coastline along the Strait of Dover.
May 1944: Allied forces arrive at the outskirts of Dunkirk.
September 1944: Dieppe was captured by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division on 1 September.
September 1944: Ostend, a Belgian city and one of the German "channel forts", was liberated in 1944 by Allied forces.
September 1944: The 1st Polish Armoured Division crossed the Belgian border and captured Ypres.
September 1944: The Germans surrender to the 3rd Canadian Division in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
September 1944: Calais fell to the Allied forces on 30 September
September 1944: The attack on the Cap Gris Nez batteries in 1944 was part of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. The operation was led by General Bernard Montgomery and resulted in the capture of strategic coastal positions.
September 1944: Allied troops crossed the Ghent-Bruges Canal against strong opposition.
3.12.2.Battle of the Scheldt
Was a series of military operations led by the First Canadian Army, with Polish and British units attached, to open up the shipping route to Antwerp so that its port could be used to supply the Allies in north-west Europe.
October 1944: Allied advances by October 16th in the Low Countries and Belgium, during the Battle of the Scheldt.
November 1944: Allied advances by November 10th in the Low Countries and Belgium, during the Battle of the Scheldt.
3.13.Operation Overlord
Was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
3.13.1.Allied Invasion of Normandy
The allied forces launched an invasion of German-occupied France with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 (D-Day).
June 1944: The five beachheads of the Allied invasion of Normandy were connected by 12 June.
June 1944: Allied forces invade France, landing on the coast of Normandy. Two of the beaches (Juno and Gold) were linked on the first day
3.13.2.Battle of Cherbourg
Was a battle fought in Cherbourg, France, immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June 1944.
June 1944: On 18 June the US 9th Infantry Division reached the west coast of the peninsula, isolating the Cherbourg garrison from any potential reinforcements. There was little opposition on the western side of the peninsula and on the eastern side, the exhausted defenders around Montebourg collapsed.
June 1944: Allied troops, mainly American, captured the fortified port of Cherbourg.
3.13.3.Battle of Saint-Lô
Was an allied military operation that liberated the region around Saint-Lô, France.
July 1944: American forces occupy Saint-Lô.
3.13.4.Battle of Caen
Was an Allied military operation that liberated the region around Caen, France.
July 1944: Caen, a major objective, was still in German hands at the end of D-Day and would not be completely captured until 21 July.
3.13.5.Operation Cobra
Was an offensive launched by the United States First Army seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II that led to the collapse of the German Normandy front.
July 1944: Allied operations to liberate St. Lo.
3.13.6.Conquest of Normandy
Was the Allied conquest of German-occupied Normandy during World War II.
August 1944: Allied military operation in Normandy.
3.13.7.Battle of Mortain
Was a German counter-attack near Mortain, in northwestern France during the Battle of Normandy.
August 1944: Frontline of the western front of World War II in that date.
August 1944: Allied liberation of Le Mans.
3.13.8.Operation Totalize
Was an offensive launched by Allied troops in the First Canadian Army during the later stages of Operation Overlord in order to break through the German defences south of Caen.
August 1944: Based on available maps.
3.13.9.Battle of the Falaise Pocket
Was an Allied operation during the Battle of Normandy that led to the destruction of the German pocket in the area of the French cities of Trun, Argentan, Vimoutiers and Chambois.
August 1944: Allied forces clear the Chambois area.
August 1944: By the evening of 21 August, the Falaise pocket had been sealed, with Germans trapped inside.
3.13.10.Liberation of Paris
A military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.
August 1944: Battle of Paris frm 19 August 1944 until the German commander in Paris, Lt. Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered formally to Brig. Gen. Jacques Philippe Leclerc of the French 2nd Army at 15:15 of 25 August 1944.
3.13.11.Battle for Brest
Was fought in August and September 1944 in Brest as part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II.
September 1944: General Ramcke surrendered the city of Brest on 19 September 1944 to the Americans.
3.14.Operation Dragoon
Was the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August 1944.
August 1944: Allied operations In Southern France, 15-28 August 1944.
August 1944: Allied liberation of Grenoble.
August 1944: Territorial changes based on the known frontline of the western front of World War II in that date.
August 1944: On 29 August, the Allies captured Montélimar.
September 1944: Allied liberation of Dijon.
September 1944: Operation Dragoon encountered Siegfried Line campaign "closing" central france
September 1944: Lyon was liberated by the French 2nd Corp.
September 1944: Allied advance in Germany in that date.
September 1944: Allied liberation of Autun.
September 1944: Allied liberation of Langres.
August 1944: Allied liberation of Marseille and Toulon.
3.14.1.Main invasion (operation Dragoon)
The invasion of the bulk of the armies partecipating to operation Dragoon during World War II.
August 1944: Operation Dragoon landing in France started on the morning of 15 August.
3.15.Battle of Moerbrugge
Was a three-day battle during the Liberation of Belgium that cleared part of the West Flanders from German troops.
September 1944: Allied liberation of Moerbrugge.
3.16.Liberation of Netherlands
Was the Allied liberation of the Netherlands from the German occupying forces.
September 1944: Maastricht, Gulpen, Meerssen are liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Sint-Oedenrode, Veghel, Son en Breugel are liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Eindhoven is liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Veldhoven is liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Deurne is liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Mook is liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Helmond,Oss are liberated by the Allies of World War II
October 1944: Venray is liberated by the Allies of World War II
October 1944: Den Bosch, Tilburg, Bergen op Zoom are liberated by the Allies of World War II
October 1944: Tholen,Goes are liberated by the Allies of World War II
November 1944: Middelburg is liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Hengelo is liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Groningen is liberated by the Allies of World War II
November 1944: Veere,Koudekerke are liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Nijmegen, Geldrop, Someren, Terneuzen are liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Assen,Diepenveen,Olst are liberated by the Allies of World War II
November 1944: Vlissingen,Westkapelle are liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Weert is liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Apeldoorn is liberated by the Allies of World War II
December 1944: Blerick is liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Arnhem, Zwolle are liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Almelo is liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Westerbork,Brummen,Deventer are liberated by the Allies of World War II
September 1944: Simpelveld is liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Doetinchem,Borculo,Eibergen,Enschede are liberated by the Allies of World War II
October 1944: Kerkrade is liberated by the Allies of World War II
November 1944: Wissenkerke,Zoutelande are liberated by the Allies of World War II
April 1945: Zutphen, Leeuwarden, Zoutkamp are liberated by the Allies of World War II
3.16.1.Battle of Nijmegen
Was the liberation of the Dutch city of Nijmegen from German occupation during World War II.
September 1944: The Battle of Nijmegen or Liberation of Nijmegen occurred from 17 to 20 September 1944.
3.16.2.Battle of Overloon
As a battle fought during the Second World War between Allied forces and the German Army which took place in and around the village of Overloon in the south-east of the Netherlands .
October 1944: Overloon is liberated by the Allies of World War II
3.17.Lorraine campaign
Was the operation of the U.S. Army to liberate German-occupied Lorraine during World War II.
September 1944: Allied advance in France up to Nancy, which is abandoned by German forces.
December 1944: Allied forces accept surrender of last of the Metz forts.
3.18.Western Allied invasion of Germany
Was the invasion of the western territories of Germany mainly by the United States, United Kingdom, France and Canada at the end of World War II.
April 1945: Final allied military operations in the European theatre of World War II (April-May 1945).
March 1945: Frontline of the western front of World War II in that date.
April 1945: Allied military operations during the encirclement of the Ruhr area (March-April 1945).
April 1945: Allied advance in Germany in that date.
May 1945: Final allied military operations in the European theatre of World War II (April-May 1945).
April 1945: Allied reduction of Ruhr Pocket.
March 1945: Allied military operations during the encirclement of the Ruhr area (March-April 1945).
March 1945: American forces clear large part of Wesel in street-to-sreet fighting.
3.18.1.Battle of Aachen
Was a battle of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 2-21 October 1944.
October 1944: The German commander of Aachen garrison surrenders at 12:05 of 21 October 1944 ot American forces.
3.18.2.Operation Clipper
Was an Allied offensive by the British XXX Corps (which included the American 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944.
November 1944: Allied forces arrive 2 miles Sout-West of Geilenkrichen.
3.18.3.German Offensive on the Western Front during the Allied invasion
Was a offensive of Germany against the Allies that were invading German-occupied Europe during World War II.
December 1944: Territorial changes caused on December 16th 1944 by the German Ardenne Offensive of 1944 ("Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein").
December 1944: Territorial changes caused on December 20th 1944 by the German Ardenne Offensive of 1944 ("Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein").
December 1944: Territorial changes caused on December 25th 1944 by the German Ardenne Offensive of 1944 ("Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein").
3.18.4.Operation Blackcock
Was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands and Heinsberg in Germany during the fighting on the Western Front in the Second World War.
January 1945: Allied forces complete capture of Heinsberg.
3.18.5.Operation Veritable
Was an Allied military operation in the Reichswald Forest, in Germany, towards the end of World War II.
February 1945: Territorial changes based on the known frontline during the Rhineland campaign.
February 1945: Allied forces complete capture of Cleve.
March 1945: Territorial changes based on the known frontline during the Rhineland campaign.
3.18.6.Operation Grenade
Was the crossing of the Roer river between Roermond and Düren by the U.S. Ninth Army which marked the beginning of the Allied invasion of Germany.
3.18.7.Operation Lumberjack
Was a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, near the end of World War II.
March 1945: Allied conquest of Cologne.
March 1945: At Bitburg, the Soviet 5th Infantry Division cut through the German lines.
March 1945: Allied forces entered Euskirchen on 4 March.
3.19.Liberation of Finnmark
Was a military operation, lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, from Germany.
April 1945: The Norwegians declared Finnmark to be free.
November 1944: Allied forces penetrated 116 km northwest of Neiden before halting in Tana.
October 1944: With the help of local fishermen, the Soviets were able to cross the Neiden River on 27 October and capture the ridge. Fighting was fierce, and the Germans managed to burn every building in the village, save for the local church, before withdrawing.
3.20.Battle of Vianden
Took place November 19, 1944 in the small town of Vianden, in northern Luxembourg. It was one of the most important battles of the Luxembourg Resistance during World War II.
November 1944: One of the most important battles of the Luxembourg Resistance during World War II took place November 19, 1944 in the small town of Vianden.
3.21.Colmar Pocket
Was an Allied military operation to liberate central Alsace from German forces.
February 1945: Allied operations in the Colmar Pocket (January-February 1945).
January 1945: Allied operations in the Colmar Pocket (January-February 1945).
Was the East African theatre of World War II.
4.1.French Somaliland during World War II
Was an Italian military campaign in French Somaliland during World War II.
June 1940: Italian troops under General Guglielmo Nasi attacked the fort of Ali-Sabieh in the south and Dadda'to in the north.
June 1940: By the end of June the Italians had also occupied the border fortifications of Magdoul, Daimoli, Balambolta, Birt Eyla, Asmailo, Tewo, Abba, Alailou, Madda and Rahale.
December 1942: Christian Raimond Dupont, Governor of French Somaliland, surrendered to British forces. French Somaliland ceased to be part of the Vichy France colonial empire.
July 1940: Germain succeeded Legentilhomme as commander-in-chief of French forces. He was loyal to Vichy France.
August 1940: When the Italian invasion of British Somaliland began on 3 August, the forces at Loyada moved on Zeila, which they had taken by 5 August.
August 1940: The Italian 17th Colonial Brigade under Colonel Agosti occupied the French fort at Loyada on the border with British Somaliland in early August.
November 1940: The border area of western French Somaliland was occupied by Italian troops. Under increasing British pressure, the Italians withdrew from Hanlé beginning in October 1940 and from Dagguirou by April 1941, when the French had returned.
May 1941: The French returned in Dagguirou.
4.2.Italian invasion of Sudan
Was an Italian military campaign in Sudan during World War II.
July 1940: The Italian army captured Kassala, then Gallabat.
July 1940: Karora and Kurmuk were taken by Italian forces.
January 1941: British General William Platt occupied the Eritrean city of Gallabat.
January 1941: On 21 January 1941, the Italian command, under British pressure, decided to evacuate Cassala and other difficult to defend locations to shorten the front.
4.3.Italian Invasion of Kenya
Was the Italian invasion of British East Africa (Kenya) during World War II.
July 1940: The Italians carried out a larger attack by about four battalions on 10 July, after a considerable artillery bombardment and after three days the British withdrew unopposed. The Italians eventually advanced to water holes at Dabel and Buna, nearly 100 km inside Kenya but lack of supplies prevented a further advance.
March 1941: Dabel and Buna remained under Italian control until liberated in February 1941.
4.4.Italian conquest of British Somaliland
Was the Italian conquest of British Somaliland during World War II.
August 1940: The Italian invasion force occupied Hargeisa.
August 1940: The Italian northern column reached Zeila despite naval bombardments.
August 1940: The British retirement was followed up cautiously by the Italians, who attacked the defenders at Barkasan.
August 1940: By 10 August, de Simone had closed up on the British positions behind the Tug Argan and prepared the Italian attack.
August 1940: In the north, the Bertoldi column captured Zeila, about 240 km north-west of Berbera, cutting communications with French Somaliland and then began a slow advance south-east along the coast road, under intermittent air attack from Aden and bombardment from the sea, pushing back the SCC rearguards as far as the village of Bulhar by 17 August.
August 1940: The Italian eastern column, comprising mainly Eritrean Bande (colonial troops), reached Odweina.
August 1940: Italian forces entered Berbera victorious on 19 August 1940, just over 2 weeks after the start of the offensive in British Somaliland.
4.5.British invasion of Italian East Africa
Was the British invasion and occupation of Italian East Africa during World War II.
January 1941: The brigade retreated on the night of 22/23 January, leaving Italian General Ugo Fongoli, his staff and 800 men behind as prisoners.
January 1941: Battle of Agordat.
February 1941: Banno was captured by British forces.
February 1941: Afmadu was captured on 11 February by British forces.
February 1941: Mega conquered by great britain.
February 1941: Jelib was attacked on both flanks and from the rear. The Italians were routed and 30,000 were killed, captured or dispersed in the bush.
February 1941: Moyale, 110 km south-east of Mega on the border with Kenya, was occupied.
February 1941: British forces occupied Italian Somaliland and militarily administered the territory.
March 1941: By early March Cunningham's forces had captured most of Italian Somaliland.
March 1941: The 5th Indian Division captured Fort Dologorodoc.
March 1941: The town of Barbera was captured by the British.
March 1941: British forces advanced westwards into eastern Ethiopia and in late March, linked with forces from the Southern Front around Harar and Diredawa.
March 1941: On 26 March, Harar was captured by the British.
March 1941: Keren was captured by British forces after a battle lasting 53 days.
April 1941: Asmara was declared an open town and the British entered unopposed.
April 1941: The British came to control Ogaden, and later Haud, in the aftermath of the East African Campaign in 1941.
April 1941: On 6 April 1941, Addis Ababa was occupied by British forces led by officer Harry Wetherall.
April 1941: Bonetti surrendered and the Allied force took 9,590 prisoners and 127 guns. Aosta ordered the governor, Agenore Frangipani, to surrender the city to forestall a massacre of Italian civilians, as had occurred in Dire Dawa. Ashamed of not being allowed by his superior to fight to the death in the old style, the Italian governor, General Agenore Frangipani, killed himself with poison the next day.
April 1941: The South Africans captured Dessie on the main road north from Addis Ababa to Asmara.
May 1941: British occupation of Eritrea.
September 1941: On 28 September 1941, after losing 950 casualties and running out of provisions, Gonella surrendered with 1,629 Italian and 1,450 Ethiopian soldiers to the 25th East African Brigade (Brigadier W. A. L. James).
November 1941: The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in Ethiopia was a British military occupation administration in Ethiopia during East African Campaign of World War II. It expanded from early 1941 until the final Italian defeat in November.
December 1941: The Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement was a joint effort between Ethiopia and the United Kingdom at reestablishing Ethiopian independent statehood following the ousting of Italian troops by combined British and Ethiopian forces in 1941 during the Second World War.
February 1941: On 25 February 1941, the motorised 23rd Nigerian Brigade (11th African Division) advanced 378 km up the coast in three days and occupied the Somali capital of Mogadishu unopposed.
February 1941: On the night of 31 January/1 February, the Italians retreated along a track towards Tole and Arresa and on 8 February, abandoned vehicles were found by the pursuers.
March 1941: By 17 March, the 11th (African) Division completed a 17-day dash along the Italian Strada Imperiale (Imperial Road) from Mogadishu to Jijiga in the Somali region of Ethiopia.
July 1941: The Italians were cut off by the Free Belgian forces (Major-General Auguste Gilliaert) who had defeated the Italians at Asosa and Saïo.
March 1941: On 20 March, Hargeisa was captured by the British.
May 1941: The Duke of Aosta and his garrison surrendered in Amba Alagi to the British commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Alan Cunningham.
March 1941: On 29 March 1941, Dire Dawa was occupied by British forces.
February 1941: On 2 February, the British took Hobok.
February 1941: The port of Kismayu, located in present-day Somalia, was captured by British forces.
June 1941: Italian forces held out at Assab, the last Italian harbour on the Red Sea. Operation Chronometer took place from 10 to 11 June, with a surprise landing at Assab by the 3/15th Punjab Regiment from Aden, carried by a flotilla comprising HMS Dido, Indus, Clive, Chakdina and SS Tuna.
February 1941: An advance force of the South African Division captured Jumbo.
June 1941: Italian general Gazzera abandoned Jimma and about 15,000 men surrendered to the British.
November 1941: British forces captured Gondar.
Refers to the events that happened in French Colonies that decided to be loyal to the German puppet state of Vichy France.
June 1940: Chandernagore switched allegiance to Free France.
June 1940: During the period of June 16, 1940, to July 14, 1943, Guadeloupe was under the administration loyal to Vichy France, led by Marshal Philippe Pétain.
June 1940: During the period of 16 Jun 1940 - 13 Jul 1943, Martinique was under the administration loyal to Vichy France, led by Admiral Georges Robert. Vichy France was the government regime established in unoccupied France during World War II, collaborating with Nazi Germany.
June 1940: During the period from June 16, 1940, to July 14, 1943, Saint Barthélemy was under the administration loyal to Vichy France, led by Marshal Philippe Pétain. This changed in 1943 when the territory transitioned to being under the control of Free France.
June 1940: After the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, the island of Saint Martin came under the control of the Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazis. The administration on the island remained loyal to Vichy France until July 1943.
July 1940: With the creation of Vichy France, initially all French colonies were aligned with Vichy.
August 1940: Chad Governor Félix Éboué becomes loyal to Free France.
September 1940: From 2 Sep 1940 French Oceania was loyal to "Free" French.
September 1940: The administration of French India is loyal to "Free" France.
September 1940: During the period from 29 July 1940 to 19 September 1940, New Caledonia was under the administration loyal to "Vichy" France, which was the government of Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
July 1942: British and British East African troops land on the island of Mayotte, in the Mozambique Channel, and secure it for seaplane base.
July 1943: During the period from June 16, 1940, to July 14, 1943, Saint Barthélemy was under the administration loyal to Vichy France, led by Marshal Philippe Pétain. This changed in 1943 when the territory transitioned to being under the control of Free France.
October 1944: During World War II, Mayotte was occupied by British forces from July 1942 to September 1944. Despite the occupation, French administration continued to govern the territory.
July 1943: During the period of 16 Jun 1940 - 13 Jul 1943, Martinique was under the administration loyal to Vichy France, led by Admiral Georges Robert. Vichy France was the government regime established in unoccupied France during World War II, collaborating with Nazi Germany.
August 1940: Cameroon aligns to Free France.
June 1940: During the period from June 16, 1940, to May 27, 1942, Wallis and Futuna were under the administration loyal to Vichy France, which was the government established in the unoccupied zone of France following the German occupation in World War II.
July 1943: After the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, the island of Saint Martin came under the control of the Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazis. The administration on the island remained loyal to Vichy France until July 1943.
May 1942: During the period from June 16, 1940, to May 27, 1942, Wallis and Futuna were under the administration loyal to Vichy France, which was the government established in the unoccupied zone of France following the German occupation in World War II.
July 1940: Governor Henri Sautot rallies the French administration of the New Hebrides to Free France.
June 1940: The administration of French Guyana is loyal to "Vichy" France.
March 1943: From 18 Mar 1943 French Guyana was loyal Free France.
July 1940: During the period from 29 July 1940 to 19 September 1940, New Caledonia was under the administration loyal to "Vichy" France, which was the government of Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
July 1943: From 14 Jul 1943 Martinique was loyal to Free French.
June 1940: Administration of French India loyal to "Vichy" France.
June 1940: Administration of French Oceania loyal to "Vichy" France.
Was the West And Central African theatre of World War II.
August 1940: Pierre Boisson, the governor-general of French Equatorial Africa, was a staunch supporter of the Vichy regime, unlike Félix Éboué, the governor of French Chad. On 26 August, with the help of his top military official, Éboué pledged his colony's allegiance to Free France.
6.1.Battle of Gabon
Was a battle that resulted in Free France forces gaining control of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France.
October 1940: Free French forces crossed into French Equatorial Africa and took the town of Mitzic.
November 1940: Libreville was captured by Free France forces on 10 November.
November 1940: On 12 November, the final Vichy forces at Port Gentil, Gabon, surrendered without a fight. Governor Masson - despairing of his actions - committed suicide.
November 1940: The Vichy garrison at Lambaréné, Gabon, capitulated.
Was the North African theatre of World War II.
April 1943: The Military Territory of Fezzan-Ghadames was a territory in the southern part of the former Italian colony of Libya occupied and administered by the French from 1943.
May 1943: The British Military Administration of Libya was the control of the regions of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania of the former Italian Libya by the British from 1943.
7.1.Italian invasion of Egypt
Was an Italian offensive in the Second World War, against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces in the Kingdom of Egypt.
September 1940: The Italian 10th Army halted and took up defensive positions around the port of Sidi Barrani.
7.2.Operation Compass
Was a British military operation against Italian forces in Western Egypt and Cyrenaica.
February 1941: British conquest of Derna.
March 1941: British forces captured Kufra.
March 1941: Siege of Giarabub by British forces.
January 1941: British conquest of Tobruk.
December 1940: British conquest of Sidi Barrani.
January 1941: Battle of Bardia.
February 1941: British conquest of Beda Fomm.
7.3.Operation Sonnenblume
Was a joint German and Italian military Campaign against British forces in Cyrenaica, during World War II.
March 1941: The Axis force raided and quickly defeated the British at El Agheila.
March 1941: Mersa Brega conquered by italy.
April 1941: German Group Schwerin was out of fuel and stranded near Ben Gania.
April 1941: Siege of Tobruk.
April 1941: By 15 April, Italian troops pushed the British back to the border at Sollum and besieged Tobruk.
April 1941: The German units of Group Schwerin arrived in Mechili.
April 1941: Ponath reached the coast road and advanced on the airfield south of Derna.
7.4.Operation Skorpion
Was a military operation where the Axis re-captured Halfaya Pass, Egypt.
May 1941: Axis forces re-captured the Halfaya Pass.
7.5.Operation Crusader
Was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War by the British Eighth Army against the Axis forces.
November 1941: British conquest in Lybia and Egypt during the offensive of general Auchinleck.
December 1941: British conquest in Lybia and Egypt during the offensive of general Auchinleck.
7.6.Battle of Gazala
Was a battle between the Axis and British forces west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, during World War II.
May 1942: Advancement of Axis forces in North Africa by c. 27 may.
July 1942: On 1 July the Axis forces arrived in front of El Alamein. The Allies withdrew to a defensive line between El Alamein, near the sea, and the desert.
June 1942: British withdrawal to Bardia.
June 1942: Rommel crossed the border into Egypt by occupying Sidi Barrani.
June 1942: German General Klopper's forces occupy Tobruk.
June 1942: Allied forces retreat and withdraw from Gazala. It will be totally occupied on June 21, 1942 by the Axis forces.
June 1942: The 7th Bersaglieri Regiment (Trento Division) occupied the fortified camp of Marsa Matruh.
7.7.Battle of Alam el Halfa
Was a battle between the Axis and British forces in Egypt, during World War II.
September 1942: Axis retreat to initial positions in North Africa.
August 1942: Axis forces attack deep into British Egypt territory.
7.8.British Invasion of Libya
Was a British military campaign in Italian Libya during World War II that resulted in the occupation of the region.
7.8.1.Second Battle of El Alamein
Was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
November 1942: British offensive in Lybia and Egypt.
7.8.2.Battle of El-Agheila
Was a battle of the Second World War that took place in Libya.
December 1942: British offensive in Lybia and Egypt.
December 1942: British offensive in Lybia and Egypt. Sirte falls to the British Eighth Army.
January 1943: British offensive in Lybia and Egypt.
February 1943: British offensive in Lybia and Egypt.
7.9.Allied invasion of French North Africa
Was the Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II.
7.9.1.Operation Torch
Was an Allied military operation to occupy French North Africa during World War II.
November 1942: Safi surrendered to the Allies on the afternoon of 8 November.
November 1942: The Americans surrounded the port of Casablanca by 10 November, and the city surrendered.
November 1942: After talks with the allied, French Admiral Darlan’s orders all resistance of French forces against the Allied to cease. Morocco under Allied control.
November 1942: U.S. forces land in Morocco and occupy Port-Lyautey on November 10.
November 1942: British forces conquer Oran.
November 1942: On 8 November 1942, the allied invasion of Alegia commenced with landings on three beaches—two west of Algiers and one east. The US troops pushed quickly inland and General Juin surrendered the city to the Allies at 19:00.
7.9.2.Tunisian campaign
Was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied.
November 1942: Bône airfield was occupied by the Allies following a parachute drop by 3rd Parachute Battalion and this was followed by 6 Commando seizing the port on 12 November.
November 1942: The 509th U.S. Parachute Regiment occupies Gafsa airfield in Tunisia.
December 1942: In Tunisia, the Allies were forced to withdraw to Medjez, and by 26 December 1942 the Allies had withdrawn to the line they had set out from two weeks earlier.
February 1943: Axis forces evacuate Sidi Bou Zid (Tunisia).
April 1943: Frontline between allied and axis forces in Tunisia on that date.
December 1942: Allied forces reach Medjez el Bab where they are attacked by German tank-infantry columns.
November 1942: French and U.S. Troops occupy Gafsa (Tunisia).
March 1943: Frontline between allied and axis forces in Tunisia on that date.
December 1942: The Allies reached the outskirts of Djedeida.
November 1942: British and American forces reach Tabarka (Tunisia), which is occupied.
May 1943: Allied conquest of Tunisi.
November 1942: British forces make contact with German forces at Djebel Abiod (Tunisia).
November 1942: The British First Army lands at Bougie (Algeria) without opposition.
May 1943: With the surrender of German General Messe, Tunisia is liberated by the allied.
February 1943: Frontline between allied and axis forces in Tunisia on that date.
Was the theatre of conflict of World War II that took place in the Balkans.
December 1941: The Republic of Užice was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini-state that existed in the autumn of 1942.
November 1942: Slunj conquered by Bihać Republic.
December 1942: Tomislavgrad conquered by Bihać Republic.
January 1943: Teslic conquered by Bihać Republic.
January 1943: Germans retook Bihać on 29 January.
December 1942: Some towns in Croatia were retaken by Axis forces in local attacks: Jajce was reoccupied.
February 1943: Drvar conquered by Axis forces.
December 1942: Livno conquered by Bihać Republic.
September 1941: The Republic of Užice was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini-state that existed in the autumn of 1941.
November 1942: The Bihać Republic was established by the Partisan resistance movement following the liberation of Bihać.
March 1943: Bihać Republic conquered by italy;germany.
January 1943: Teslic conquered by italy;germany.
November 1942: Jajce conquered by Bihać Republic.
January 1943: Udbina and Bosansko Grahovo were evacuated by ustaša and Italian units under partisan pressure.
8.1.Greco-Italian War
Was a conflict between Greece and Italy during World War II that started with the Italian invasion of Greece.
April 1941: Italo-Greek front as of April, 4th 1941 (based on maps).
8.1.1.Italian offensive (Greco-Italian War)
Were the Italian operations during the Greco-Italian War.
November 1940: By the night of 29/30 October, the Greek covering units had withdrawn to the Kalpaki line.
November 1940: The Italians managed to capture Konitsa.
November 1940: The Italian Julia Division captured the village of Vovousa.
November 1940: The Italians reached Margariti.
April 1941: Knin was taken by the Axis forces.
April 1941: The Italian 133rd Armoured Division Littorio and the 52nd Infantry Division Torino took Senj.
April 1941: On 13 April the Italian occupied Otočac and Gradac.
April 1941: Split and Sibenik were taken by Italian forces on 15 and 16 April, respectively.
April 1941: Italian Motorized Corps took Dubrovnik.
April 1941: On 11 April, the Italian 2nd Army launched its offensive, capturing Ljubljana, Sušak and Kraljevica on the same day.
November 1940: Igoumenitsa was captured by the Italians on 6 November.
November 1940: The Greek forces reach the Pindus area of the Greek-Italian border.
April 1941: The Italian army conquers of Kastav, Kalce and Logatec.
8.1.2.Greek counter-offensive (Greco-Italian War)
Were the Greek operations during the Greco-Italian War.
November 1940: The Greeks captured the summit of Morava.
November 1940: The city of Korçë was captured by Greek 9th Division.
November 1940: Greek conquest of Leskovik.
November 1940: Pogradec was captured unopposed by the Greek 13th Division.
December 1940: The Greek army captured Delvinë on 5 December.
December 1940: The Greek army captured Himarë on 22 December.
February 1941: In the Battle of Trebeshina, a series of engagements from 2-12 February, the Trebeshinë massif was captured by Greek forces.
November 1940: The Greeks captured Ersekë on 21 November.
December 1940: Greek conquest of Gjirokastër.
November 1940: The Western Macedonia Section of the Greek Army captured the entire Korçë plateau.
November 1940: The Greek 10th Division captured Moscopole.
January 1941: The Greek 11th Division captured the Klisura Pass.
December 1940: The Greek Lioumbas Detachment captured Sarandë, at the time baned Porto Edda after Edda Mussolini.
December 1940: The Greek army captured the Ostravicë Mountain on 12 December.
December 1940: The Greeks arrived around the Kakavia Pass, forcing the Italians to withdraw.
8.2.Invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis
Was a military operation by the Axis forces that resulted in the occupation and partition of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
8.2.1.Surrender and partition of Yugoslavia
Was the partition of Yugoslavia among the invading Axis forces.
April 1941: The Independent State of Croatia (a German puppet state) was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia.
April 1941: Yugoslavia was partitioned ca. April 20-22, 1941 among the Axis countries (Italy and Germany) and their satellite states (Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania).
8.2.2.Hungarian Offensive (Axis invasion of Yugoslavia)
Was the offensive of the Hungarian army during the Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
April 1941: The Hungarian 1st Parachute Battalion captured canal bridges at Vrbas and Srbobran. Meanwhile, Sombor was captured against determined Chetnik resistance, and Subotica was also captured.
April 1941: The Hungarian 1st and 2nd Motorised Brigades occupied Novi Sad.
April 1941: The Hungarian army captured Vinkovci and Vukovar on 18 April.
April 1941: Valjevo conquered by hungary.
April 1941: Hungarian forces occupied the Yugoslavian regions of Prekmurje and Međimurje.
8.2.3.Yugoslav Albanian offensive
Was the offensive of the Italian forces in Albania during the Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
April 1941: Between 11-13 April 1941, with German and Italian troops advancing on its rear areas, the Zetska Division was forced to retreat back to the Pronisat River by the Italian 131st Centauro Armoured Division.
8.3.German invasion of Greece
Was the invasion of Greece Germany during World War II. The Invasion followed the unsuccesful invasion of Greece by Italian forces.
April 1941: The spearheads of the German 9th Panzer Division reached Kozani.
April 1941: The Germans captured the town of Strumica.
April 1941: The German 73rd Infantry Division captured Prilep.
April 1941: By the evening of 8 April the German 164th Infantry Division captured Xanthi
April 1941: The German 72d Infantry Division reached the area northeast of Seres.
April 1941: On 14 April a pitched battle between several Greek units and the LSSAH brigade—which had by then reached Grevena—erupted. The Greek 13th and Cavalry Divisions lacked the equipment necessary to fight against an armoured unit, and on 15 April were finally encircled and overwhelmed.
April 1941: German conquest of Panteleimonas.
April 1941: The Italian armoured division along with the 18th Infantry Division Messina advanced upon the Yugoslav fleet base of Kotor in Montenegro, also occupying Cettinje and Podgorica.
April 1941: The port of Volos fell to the Germans on 21 April.
April 1941: The Germans advanced further and captured Ioannina.
April 1941: On 23 April the Greek commander signed a surrender agreement whit the Italians. The Italians thus re-acquired the Greek-occupied regions of Albania.
April 1941: German conquest of Thermopyles (pass).
April 1941: German conquest of Kalamata.
April 1941: The German 5th Panzer Division reached the south coast of Greece on 29 April.
April 1941: German SS troops seized Vevi on 11 April.
April 1941: German conquest of Veles.
April 1941: On 19 April the German first XVIII Mountain Corps troops entered Larisa and took possession of the airfield.
April 1941: German conquest of Skopje.
April 1941: By April 9th the German forces reached Thessaloniki.
April 1941: The German 72d Infantry Division got through the Metaxas Line by the evening of 9 April,
April 1941: On 27 April the SS forces seized the Corinth Canal and Patras.
April 1941: Korça that fell unopposed to the Italian 9th Army.
April 1941: By 30 April the hostilities ceased. Greece was fully occupied by German forces.
April 1941: On the morning of 27 April the Germans entered Athens, the Greek capital.
8.3.1.Battle of Crete
Was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete.
May 1941: On May 27, Chania fell to German forces.
May 1941: On May 28, the port in Souda Bay passed into German hands.
May 1941: The next day, through communication failures, Allied tactical hesitation and German offensive operations, the Maleme Airfield in western Crete fell.
June 1941: Allied evacuation from Crete May 28th to June 1st. Crete was occupied by German forces.
May 1941: On May 29th, Rethymno capitulated to the Germans.
8.4.Axis Occupation of Greece
After the German invasion of Greece, the country was partitioned among the Axis powers. The territorial division changed during the war, and after the surrender of Italy to the Allies the Italian zone was occupied by Germany.
August 1943: Part of the Bulgarian occupation zone in Greece fell under German control from 1943.
September 1943: After the Italian capitulation, the Italian zone of Greece was taken over by the Germans.
8.4.1.Greece divided in Occupation zones by Axis powers
Division in occupation zones of Greece by the Axis.
June 1941: East Macedonia and Thrace came under Bulgarian occupation and were annexed to Bulgaria.
June 1941: The Hellenic State was the puppet Greek state controlled by italy and Germany.
8.5.June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina
In June 1941, Serbs in eastern Herzegovina rebelled against the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia, an Axis puppet state established during World War II.
June 1941: 23 June – 7 July 1941: In June 1941, Serbs in eastern Herzegovina rebelled against the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), an Axis puppet state established during World War II.
8.6.Uprising in Serbia (1941)
Was an uprising by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia against the German occupation forces in Serbia.
July 1941: 7 July - 29 November 1941.
8.7.Liberation of Albania
Was the liberation of Albania by the Albanian resistance during World War II.
July 1943: By the summer of 1943, when the Italian effort collapsed, almost all of the mountainous interior of Albania was controlled by resistance units.
July 1944: Albanian partisans defeated the last Balli Kombëtar forces in southern Albania by mid-summer 1944.
November 1944: Following the successful advances of the Red Army in the Balkans and the offensives by the Albanian communist partisans of Enver Hoxha's Lëvizja Nacional-Çlirimtare, the Germans evacuated Albania by October 1944. The collaborationist government fell and was quickly replaced by the Democratic Government of Albania.
January 1946: The People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed.
August 1944: The National Liberation Movement entered central and northern Albania by the end of July.
November 1944: German resistance in Tirana ends.
December 1943: The Germans launched a series of offensives against the Partisans, who were primarily concentrated in Southern Albania and to a lesser extent in Central Albania. The first offensive, operation "505", started in early November 1943 to clear Partisan units from the Pezë region and remove the threat to the Durrës-Tirana road.
October 1944: The Democratic Government of Albania was established on 20 October 1944 by the National Liberation Movement, as the Albanian partisan resistance of 1940-1944 came to a close.
April 1944: By 1944 all prefectures of the National Liberation Movement, except Gjirokstra in the south, were in the hands of the Albanian Kingdom.
November 1944: The territories added to Albania by the Axis in in 1941 were reversed to Yugoslavia.
8.8.German Invasion of Albania
After the capitulation of Italian forces on 8 September 1943, German troops swiftly occupied Albania with two divisions.
September 1943: After the capitulation of Italian forces on 8 September 1943, German troops swiftly occupied Albania with two divisions. The Germans formed a 'neutral government' in Tirana.
8.9.World War II (Balkan Theatre) - Croatia
After the Italian capitulation on 8 September 1943, the Croatian territories of Italy were occupied by German forces.
September 1943: After the ousting of Mussolini and the Kingdom of Italy's armistice with the Allies, the Independent State of Croatia on 10 September 1943 declared that the Treaties of Rome were null and void and annexed the portion of Dalmatia that had been ceded to Italy.
September 1943: Until the Italian capitulation on 8 September 1943, the Independent State of Croatia was a territorial condominium of Germany and Italy.
8.10.German Invasion of Slovenia
After the Italian capitulation on 8 September 1943, German forces invaded Slovenia.
September 1943: The Italian Governorship of Dalmatia was disestablished and the country's possessions were subsequently divided between Germany, which established its Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral, and the Independent State of Croatia, which established the new district of Sidraga-Ravni Kotari.
8.11.Dodecanese campaign
Was the battle between Germany and Great Britain for the control of the Italian Dodecanese after Italy's surrender on 8 September 1943.
September 1943: Battle of Rhodes.
October 1943: Germans overrun Kos Island whic was the site of the only Allied air base in the Aegean.
October 1943: Between the night of 14 and 15 October, a British vessel offered to transfer the personnel of Piscopi to Castelrosso, who gladly accepted. The island was later occupied by the Wehrmacht.
November 1943: Altered by the unexpected resistance of the Anglo-Italians, General Kleemann ordered the Luftwaffe to proceed with the bombardment of the island of Simi. To avoid losing the entire garrison during another battle, on the night of 11 October Corradini and Lapraik gave the order to evacuate the island and head towards Castelrosso. The German pilots, unaware of all this, continued to hit the island until November 2, when troops landed on the island and realized what had happened.
October 1943: On 7 October a small group of German officers landed in Calino offering unconditional surrender which was immediately accepted.
November 1943: When the Anglo-Italian garrison of Leros was defeated on 17 November 1943, the men on Patmos embarked for the coast of Turkey and were subsequently interned.
November 1943: The Germans complete the occupation of the Island of Leros.
September 1943: On the date of the armistice, the Italian command in Rhodes ordered not to initiate hostile acts against the Germans, an order which on 12 September changed into surrendering arms to the former ally. Scarpanto was occupied by German forces.
September 1943: The military vicissitudes of the island of Caso were brief: the small garrison of the Italian army (a company and a battery with 75/27 guns) and the lookout and signaling stations of the navy surrendered to the Germans on 12 September.
October 1943: On the morning of 22 October Luftwaffe planes bombed the island of Stampalia with almost zero anti-aircraft reaction, followed by a drop of Fallschirmjäger at Maltezana simultaneously with a landing of men on the west coast. By noon the German forces were in control of the island.
May 1945: The Dodecanese Islands were occupied by the British and Peter Bevil Edward Acland was appointed governor.
8.12.German Invasion of Montenegro
After the Italian capitulation on 8 September 1943, German forces invaded Montenegro.
December 1944: Montenegro remained under German occupation until Axis forces evacuated in December 1944.
September 1943: Montenegro was occupied by German forces in September 1943, after the Armistice of Cassibile in which the Kingdom of Italy capitulated and joined the Allies.
8.13.Establishment of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). .
November 1943: The Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ).
October 1944: Partisan-controlled territories in Yugoslavia by september 1944.
October 1944: Belgrade falls under combined blows of Third Ukrainian Front and Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav Army.
January 1945: In late September 1944 three Bulgarian armies, some 455,000 strong in total led by General Georgi Marinov Mandjev from the village of Goliamo Sharkovo - Elhovo, entered Yugoslavia with the strategic task of blocking the German forces withdrawing from Greece. Southern and eastern Serbia and Macedonia were liberated within two months.
January 1945: At the onset of winter, the Partisans effectively controlled the entire eastern half of Yugoslavia - Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro - as well as most of the Dalmatian coast.
April 1945: The Croatian army did not leave Sarajevo until 15 April.
October 1944: The German forces in Serbia are destroyed in the Battle of Belgrade.
8.13.1.Partisan offensive in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia
Were a series of partisan offensives against Axis-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
April 1945: On 5 April, Yugoslavian forces aptured Doboj.
April 1945: By 20 April, Yugoslavian forces led by Drapšin liberated Lika and the Croatian Littoral, including the islands, and reached the old Yugoslav border with Italy.
May 1945: After having captured the Italian territories of Rijeka and Istria from the German LXXXXVII Corps, the Yugoslav 4th Army beated the western Allies to Trieste by one day.
May 1945: The German forces in Croatia were still able to reconquer Rijeka Trieste and the region of Istria in May 1945.
May 1945: Despite the German capitulation, sporadic fighting still took place in Yugoslavia. On 7 May, Zagreb was evacuated.
May 1945: Battle of Poljana.
April 1945: On 12 April, the Yugoslav 3rd Army, under the command of Kosta Nađ, forced a crossing of the Drava river. The 3rd Army then fanned out through Podravina, reached a point north of Zagreb, and crossed the old Austrian border with Yugoslavia in the Dravograd sector.
May 1945: Battle of Odžak.
May 1945: Maribor and Ljubljana were captured by the Partisans.
8.14.Soviet invasion of Bulgaria
Was the Soviet invasion of Bulgaria during World War II.
September 1944: The Soviets established a new communist government in Bulgaria, with Kimon Georgiev as prime minister. The Red Army remained in occupation of Bulgaria until 1947.
September 1944: On 8 September, Soviet forces crossed the Bulgarian-Romanian border and on the eve of 8 September garrison detachments, led by Zveno officers, overthrew the government after taking strategic points in Sofia and arresting government ministers.
8.15.German Withdrawal from Greece (World War II)
The evacuation of Greece by German troops during World War II.
June 1945: Isolated Axis garrisons remained in Crete, the Dodecanese and various other Aegean islands until the end of the war in May 1945.
October 1944: On 23 August 1944, at a meeting at his headquarters, Adolf Hitler told Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, the commander of the German forces in the Balkans, that with the Romanian oil fields lost, there was now no more point in occupying Greece and he should begin preparations for a withdrawal from Greece at once. The German troops evacuated Athens on 12 October 1944.
November 1944: German forces withdraw from mainland Greece.
Was the Middle Eastern theatre of World War II.
9.1.Anglo-Iraqi War
Was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq.
May 1941: Late on 6 May, the Iraqis besieging Habbaniya pulled out. By dawn on Wednesday 7 May, RAF armoured cars reconnoitred the top of the escarpment and reported it to be deserted.
May 1941: Starting on 7 May and ending 8 May, elements of the 20th Indian Infantry Brigade and the 21st Indian Infantry Brigade captured Ashar, near Basra.
May 1941: Having secured Fallujah, Roberts returned to Shaibah and to his duties with the 10th Indian Infantry Division.
April 1941: In response to the initial Iraqi moves, the 10th Indian Infantry Division, under Major-General Fraser, occupied Basra airport, the city's docks, and the power station. Elements of the 20th Indian Infantry Brigade, under Brigadier Powell, were used to occupy these sites. Between 18 and 29 April, two convoys had landed this brigade in the Basra area.
May 1941: On the morning of 31 May, the Mayor of Baghdad and a delegation approached British forces at the Washash Bridge. With the Mayor was Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the British Ambassador, who had been confined to the British Embassy in Baghdad for the past four weeks. Terms were quickly reached and an armistice was signed. Iraq fell under British occupation.
April 1941: On 1 April, Rashid Ali and the Golden Square (four senior military commanders) seized power in Iraq with a coup d'état. Rashid Ali had seized power during the Second World War with assistance from Germany and Italy.
October 1947: End of British occupation of Iraq.
9.2.Syria-Lebanon campaign
Was the invasion of Syria and Lebanon (then controlled by Vichy France) in June and July 1941 by British Empire forces, during the Second World War.
June 1941: Battle of the Litani River.
June 1941: Battle of Jezzine.
June 1941: Battle of Sidon.
June 1941: Following a strong Vichy French counterattack, the British garrison was forced to withdraw from Marjayoun.
June 1941: Battle of Kissoué.
June 1941: Battle of Damascus.
July 1941: Battle of Palmyra.
July 1941: Battle of Damour.
July 1941: Battle of Beirut.
July 1941: Battle of Deir ez-Zor.
January 1946: In 1945, the British evacuated Syria and Lebanon, which were under French mandate at the time.
July 1941: On 10 July, as the Australian 21st Brigade was on the verge of entering Beirut, Dentz sought an armistice. At one minute past midnight on 12 July, a ceasefire came into effect and ended the campaign.
June 1941: Battle of Merdjayoun.
9.3.Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941.
August 1941: The British and Soviet forces met at Sanandaj.
August 1941: Qazvin conquered by russia.
9.3.1.British invasion of Central Iran
British operations in Central Iran during the Anglo-Sovieto invasion of Iran.
August 1941: With overwhelming firepower and decreasing Iranian morale, the British captured that town of Sarpol-e-Zahab.
August 1941: The British force broke through the border with Iran at the town of Qasr-e Shirin.
August 1941: British forces moved into the Naft-e Shah oilfield with little opposition.
August 1941: The British captured Gilan-e-Gharb.
September 1941: The defenders declared Kermanshah an open city and the British entered on 1 September. They also entered Sanandaj peacefully.
August 1941: The British reached the outskirts of Shahabad in the early morning hours after delays.
August 1941: The British had reached the town of Kerend.
9.3.2.British invasion of Khuzestan
British operations in Khuzestan during the Anglo-Sovieto invasion of Iran.
August 1941: By the early morning of 27 August, the British forces had reached Ahvaz.
August 1941: Khorramshahr conquered by great britain.
9.3.3.Soviet invasion of Northwestern Iran
Soviet operations in Northwestern Iran during the Anglo-Sovieto invasion of Iran.
August 1941: The Soviet attack against Gilan Province began.
August 1941: Soviet forces captured the city of Mianeh, East Azerbaijan.
August 1941: The Red Army took Qazvin on the 29th.
August 1941: Saveh and Qom conquered by russia.
August 1941: The Iranians accepted the Soviet ceasefire on 29 August, and the Soviets entered the now "open city" of Tehran on 30 August.
August 1941: The Soviet Union's 53rd Army captured the city of Hamadan in Iran,
August 1941: The garrison of Bandar Pahlavi was forced to surrender to Soviet forces.
August 1941: The Soviet forces had reached the city of Chalus.
9.3.4.Soviet invasion of Northeastern Iran
Soviet operations in Northeastern Iran during the Anglo-Sovieto invasion of Iran.
August 1941: There was heavy fighting for three days, and by 28 August, the Iranians had been driven back after taking heavy casualties. Mashhad fell to the Soviets the same day.
9.3.5.Partition of Iran
Iran was partitioned between Britain and the Soviet Union after the the Anglo-Soviet invasion, with the Soviets stationed in northern Iran and the British south of Hamadan and Qazvin.
October 1941: The Allies withdrew from Tehran on 17 October and Iran was partitioned between Britain and the Soviet Union, with the Soviets stationed in northern Iran and the British south of Hamadan and Qazvin.
9.3.6.Allied withdrawal from Iran after World War II
Was the withdrawal from Iran by Great Britain and the USSR, that had occupied the country during World War II.
June 1946: Soviet troops did not withdraw from Iran proper until May 1946.
March 1946: Full Withdrawal of the British troops from Iran. British troops were present in Iran since 1941.
Refers to events that happened in French colonies that either remained loyal or soon became loyal to Free France very soon during World War II.
December 1941: The Islands of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon are sized by Free French forces.
December 1942: Transfer of Madagascar to Free France by the British.
November 1942: The island of Reunion is loyal to Free France.
The Allies and Germany tried to gain a monopoly on weather data in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
April 1944: The German base on Sabine was bombed by USAAF bombers from Iceland. It was then seized by a Coast Guard landing party.
March 1943: The Eskimonaes radio and weather station on Clavering Island, Greenland, was captured by German troops on 23 March.
April 1943: The Eskimonaes radio and weather station on Clavering Island, Greenland, was captured by German troops on 23 March.
September 1942: Beginning in August 1942, the Germans established four clandestine weather stations on the east coast of Greenland.
June 1944: On April 22, 1944, six Sledge Patrol members attacked the Bassgeiger weather station. The station was subsequently evacuated on June 3.
Was the Italian Front of World War II.
September 1944: In September 1944, San Marino was briefly occupied by German forces.
12.1.Allied invasion of Sicily
Was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers.
July 1943: The Allied invasion of Sicily continues. British and American forces make contact at Ragusa. Canicatti, Modica, Palazzolo, Sortini, and Scicli are taken by Allied forces.
July 1943: Allied forces secure the Salso and Simeto rivers. The U.S. Seventh Army is directed to cut northern coastal road after capture of Petralia. U.S. forces reach a line across Sicily from Campofelice to Agrigento. American forces take Fiume dell Canno, Raffadali, San Cataldo, Caltanissetta. British forces approach Catania.
July 1943: American forces occupy the areas of Trapani and Marsala.
July 1943: Allied forces occupy Santo Stefano.
August 1943: The Allied forces continue to advance in Sicily, reaching Naso, Capo D'Orlando, and Bronte.
August 1943: The Allied forces continue to advance in Sicily, reaching Spadafora, Randazzo, Linguaglossa. British forces size Taormina.
August 1943: The Allied forces continue to advance in Sicily, reaching Barcellona and Montalbano.
July 1943: The U.S. Seventh Army takes Palermo.
July 1943: Main invasion forces of U.S. Seventh and British Eighth Armies, with
close support of Royal and U.S. Navies and Allied aircraft, land on the southeastern coast of Sicily on broad front from Licata to Syracuse 02:45 and 06:00.
July 1943: By July 15th British and American forces continue to advance in Sicily and take Mazzarino and Niscemi, Butera, the Biscari Airfield, Grammichele and Caltagirone.
August 1943: Allied advance up to Brolo.
July 1943: Anglo-American forces take Corleone.
July 1943: The Allied invasion of Sicily continues toward the northern coast of the Island, taking Bompietro.
August 1943: American forces enter Messina at 10:00, soon joined by British forces. The campaign is concluded and Sicily is occupied by Allied forces.
12.2.Italian Campaign (World War II)
Was the military operation of the Allies to free italy from the forces of Germany and its puppet state, the Italian Social Republic.
September 1944: Battle of Gemmano.
November 1943: The German forces, led by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, were pressured by the Allies to abandon the Barbara Line in Italy. They retreated to the Bernhardt Line.
November 1943: By mid-November, the Allies had reached Sangro, in front of the Gustav Line.
December 1943: The main American attack began on 8 December: after days of bloody fighting in the mountains, the Germans had to evacuate Monte Lungo.
December 1943: Battle of Montelungo. By December 16th Mignano Monte Lungo is cleared by the U.S. Fifth Army.
December 1943: Germans are cleared from Ortona by British forces.
January 1944: The Bernhardt Line underwent the first attacks by the US 5th Army starting on November 5, 1943, while the fight lasted until late December, when it was conquered.
May 1944: On 22 May the II Army Corps had reached Terracina in the coastal sector.
May 1944: The French conquered the Ausoni mountains.
May 1944: U.S. operations At Anzio And Cassino, 11-30 May 1944.
June 1944: Allied forces take Rome.
June 1944: Allied offensive to liberate Italy up to the river Arno (1944).
July 1944: Allied forces break through to Ancona on Adriatic coast.
July 1944: Allied offensive to liberate Italy up to the river Arno (1944).
August 1944: Allied offensive to liberate Italy up to the river Arno (1944).
August 1944: The Allies crossed the Arno at Pontassieve and entered Florence.
September 1944: Lucca was liberated on 5 September.
September 1944: Allied conquest of Pistoia.
September 1944: Battle of Rimini.
December 1944: Faenza area cleared by the Allied forces.
December 1944: Territorial changes based on the known frontline during the allied offensive in Italy.
July 1944: By July 3rd, Allied forces reach Siena, which falls to 3rd Algerian Division.
December 1943: Allied conquest of San Pietro.
September 1944: San Marino was liberated by Allied forces.
October 1943: In the night between 2 and 3 October 1943 groups of British commandos arriving by sea at Termoli occupied both the port and the town.
December 1944: Battle of Garfagnana.
July 1944: Leghorn falls to American 34th Division without serious opposition, but retreating Germans have carried out a thorough demolition program within the city and on harbor facilities.
October 1943: The German troops resisted as per Albert Kesselring's order, until 16 October, and then began to withdraw slowly from the Barbara Line, in order to buy time for the conclusion of the work on the Gustav Line.
May 1944: Allied forces conquer Mount Maio and the town of Castelforte, as well as Monte Girofano and Monte Feuci.
August 1944: Territorial changes based on the known frontline during the allied offensive in Italy.
September 1943: With the Armistice of Cassabile, having the Kingdom of Italy switched side, the allied controlled territories in Italy are now considered Kingdom of Italy.
May 1944: In Italy, the Germans retreated to the Hitler line.
June 1944: Some garrisons had also remained in Orsogna, which was only liberated on 8 June 1944 by the paratroopers of the Nembo belonging to the Italian Liberation Corps (C.I.L.) after the breakthrough of the Gustav Line at Cassino.
12.2.1.Allied Invasion of Southern italy
Was an Allied amphibious landing on the mainland of Italy, part of the Allied invasion of Italy.
September 1943: Allied forces land on Calabrian coast between Reggio and Villa S. Giovanni at 04:30. Against token resistance from Italians, Allied forces quickly seize Reggio Calabria.
September 1943: British forces mount Operation Slapstick, taking the port of Taranto.
September 1943: Operation Avalanche was part of the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II. It began on September 9, 1943, with the landing at Salerno.
September 1943: British forces occupy Foggia, which was abandoned by German forces.
September 1943: Allied armies reunited near Vallo della Lucania.
September 1943: The Allied advances in Italy reach the Volturno River.
September 1943: In Apulia, the British paratroopers occupied the Gioia del Colle airport.
12.2.2.Free France conquest of Corsica
Was the liberation of Corsica from Axis forces.
October 1943: Allied forces gain complete control of Corsica as the enemy withdraws from Bastia area. Participating in the explusion of Germans were French, Moroccan and American troops.
September 1943: Sardinia surrenders without a shot to small Allied party. Axis forces had already retired to neighboring islands.
12.2.3.Battle of Anzio
Was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II.
January 1944: Landing of the VI Army Corps at Anzio and Nettuno on 22 January 1944. British and American forces advance several miles inland.
February 1944: U.S. operations At Anzio And Cassino, 11-30 May 1944.
January 1944: U.S. operations At Anzio And Cassino, 11-30 May 1944.
February 1944: After heavy fighting and heavy losses on both sides, the Germans managed to recapture Aprilia on 9 February.
12.2.4.Spring 1945 offensive in Italy
Was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War.
April 1945: Allied spring offensive in northern Italy (April-May 1945).
April 1945: In the Truscott sector, La Spezia and Genoa were reached by allied troops.
May 1945: Allied spring offensive in northern Italy (April-May 1945).
May 1945: The surrender of Caserta was the formal and final act which sanctioned the end of the Italian campaign and the definitive defeat of the Nazi-fascist forces in the peninsula during the Second World War. The act was signed by Representatives of
German General Vietinghoff and became operational starting from 2 May.
April 1945: Battle of Bologna. The city is liberated by Allied forces.
April 1945: US armored forces headed for Milan on 29 April.
12.3.Operation Achse
German operation to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy's armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943.
September 1943: The army headquarters in Potenza was attacked by surprise and conquered by the Germans.
September 1943: The Italian departments rapidly disintegrated in Trentino-Alto Adige, despite the construction of the Alpine Wall in Alto Adige: by 9 September the two Alpine divisions of the 35th Army Corps of General Alessandro Gloria were immediately attacked and disarmed by the Germans.
September 1943: After the armistice of italy, Germany occupied most of the country, including Rome.
September 1943: Leghorn (Italian: Livorno) was occupied on 10 September by German forces.
September 1943: In Liguria, by 11 September, German troops of the 87th Army Corps (76th and 94th Infantry Division) and the 51st Army Corps (65th and 305th Infantry Division) occupied all positions.
September 1943: German Army Group B occupied all of central-northern Italy.
September 1943: General Chiappa Armellini let the Germans enter Florence, Colonel Chiari in Arezzo, Colonel Laurei in Massa, and they yielded to the ex-allies without putting up any resistance.
September 1943: Corfu Surrenders to German force that has recently landed there.
September 1943: In Piedmont the Germans quickly neutralized the Italian units present.
September 1943: In Crete the Italians were neutralized and disarmed by the German forces present on the island.
September 1943: After a series of very bitter clashes, the Germans went on the offensive on 21st September and forced the Italians of Cefalonia to surrender at 11:00 on 22nd September.
September 1943: In central Italy north of Rome, the Italian 5th Army under the command of General Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto, based in Orte, disbanded on 11 September, the soldiers were disarmed and interned by the Germans.
September 1943: Between Emilia and lower Lombardy, the units of the 1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler moved at midnight on 8 September towards the cities of Parma, Cremona, Reggio Emilia, Piacenza, Modena, where they easily overcame the sporadic resistance of some Italian departments.
12.4.War in the German Operational Zones of northern Italy
Were the events in the operational zones created by Germany in northern Italy during World War II.
September 1943: The Operational Zone of the Alpine Foothills was established by the occupying German Wehrmacht, as a response to the Allied Armistice with Italy.
September 1943: The Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral was established during the second part of World War II, in September 1943. It was a territory in Italy controlled directly by Nazi Germany.
September 1943: On 17 September, Mussolini proclaimed through Radio Monaco (a station picked up in a large part of northern Italy) the forthcoming constitution of the new fascist state. This would be formalized on the 23rd, setting up the first meeting of the Government of the Italian Social Republic in Rome.
May 1945: New Zealand 2nd Division receives German surrender of Trieste.
May 1945: Anglo-American troops entered Trento, removing the Nazi-fascist authorities and placing the whole area under their own occupation.
January 1946: The provinces of Trento and Belluno were returned to the Italian government on New Year's Eve 1946.
12.5.Four Days of Naples
Was an uprising in Naples, Italy, against Nazi German occupation forces from September 27 to September 30, 1943, immediately prior to the arrival of Allied forces in the city.
September 1943: The Four Days of Naples were a historic episode of popular insurrection that took place during the Second World War, between 27 and 30 September 1943. During the insurrection, civilians, with the contribution of soldiers loyal to the Southern Kingdom, managed to free the city of Naples from the occupation of the Wehrmacht forces.
Refers to the surrender of Axis forces and the end of World War II and to the territorial changes that were a direct consequence of World War II but happened after the traditional end of the War.
May 1945: After the end of World War II, the Dodecanese Islands came under provisional British administration.
May 1945: After the End of World War II the Western European countries of Germany are reverted to their pre-war borders.
June 1945: The Third Czechoslovak Republic came into being in April 1945.
August 1945: At the Potsdam Conference the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union placed the German territories (within the 1937 Nazi Germany borders) east of the Oder-Neisse line, and with the exception of parts of East Prussia, as formally under Polish administrative control. The 1919 Versailles Treaty created Free City of Danzig was also placed under Polish administration.
February 1946: Starting on 16 February 1946 France disentangled the Saar area and established the separate Saar Protectorate.
February 1947: Romania was restored to its borders of 1 January 1941, but with Hungary giving Northern Transylvania back to Romania. The loss of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union was confirmed.
February 1947: Treaty of Paris: Italy transfers the Dodecanese to Greece, which reached its present borders.
April 1949: On 1 April 1949 (prior to the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany), the border areas in the territories of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were temporarily divested to Belgium.
May 1949: The Federal Republic of Germany was established on the territory of the Western occupied zones, with Bonn as its "provisional" capital.
October 1949: The German Democratic Republic (or Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), with East Berlin as its capital, was established in the Soviet Zone.
August 1963: Almost all of the German territories annexed by the Netherlands at the end of WWII were returned to West Germany in 1963 after Germany paid the Netherlands 280 million German marks. The territory was returned to West Germany on 1 August 1963, except one small hill (about 3 km2) near Wyler village, called Duivelsberg/Wylerberg.
May 1945: The entire territory of Germany is occupied by Allied forces.
February 1947: Three villages (Horvátújfalu, Oroszvár, and Dunacsún) situated south of Bratislava were transferred to Czechoslovakia.
August 1958: Belgium returned the German annexed territories on 28 August 1958 through the German-Belgian border treaty of 24 September 1956. The place Losheimergraben and the western part of the Leykaul municipality, as well as some forests, were excluded from this restoration. These areas remained in Belgium, and so did the previously Belgian municipalities of Eupen and Malmedy that had been incorporated into the German Reich in 1940.
May 1945: On May 11, 1945, the German capitulation was also completed on Heligoland. British soldiers occupied the island.
April 1949: An area of Germany of a total size of 69 km2 was allocated to the Netherlands.
January 1957: With effect of 1 January 1957 the Saar Protectorate declared its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, as provided by its Grundgesetz (constitution) art. 23 (Little Reunification), becoming the new federal state of Saarland.
13.1.The Surrender of German forces
Surrender of German forces at the end of World War II.
May 1945: German forces in Bavaria surrender.
May 1945: General Franz Böhme announced the unconditional surrender of German troops in Norway.
May 1945: German forces on the Channel Islands surrender.
May 1945: At the end of World War II Greece freed its islands from German forces.
May 1945: The German garrisons of most of the last Atlantic pockets in France, in Dunkirk and La Rochelle, surrendered to the Allies.
May 1945: The Soviets forced the German units in Army Group Centre, that were located in Bohemia, to capitulate by 11 May.
May 1945: Resistance in Latvia ceases as German Sixteenth and Eighteenth Armies begin surrendering to forces of Leningrad Front.
May 1945: Soviet forces complete capture of Berlin. German forces surrender.
May 1945: The Atlantic Pocket of Lorient surrendered to French forces.
May 1945: The German Atlantic Pocket of Saint-Nazaire surrendered.
13.2.Austrian State Treaty
The Austrian State Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state after World War II.
May 1945: In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Austria was divided into four occupation zones and jointly occupied by the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
July 1955: The Austrian State Treaty was signed on May 15, 1955, in Vienna, Austria. The treaty was signed by the foreign ministers of the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France, officially ending the Allied occupation of Austria and re-establishing the country as a sovereign state.
13.3.Allied occupation of Germany
The Allies occupied Germany, but the Western allies and Soviet Union formed separate governments covering specific parts of Germany (West Germany, as well as West Berlin, and East Germany).
August 1945: The Allies divided Germany into four occupation zones.
13.4.The Surrender of Japanese forces
Surrender of Japanese forces at the end of World War II.
September 1945: Nauru was finally set free from the Japanese.
January 1946: D. João, Lapa and Montanha Islands were restored to China in 1945.
September 1945: The Japanese garrison in Penang surrenders.
September 1945: The remaining Japanese forces in China surrender.
September 1945: The Japanese commander in the Philippines, Gen. Yamashita, surrendered to Gen. Wainwright at Baguio.
September 1945: Wake island was held by the Japanese for the duration of the Pacific War theater of World War II; the remaining Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to a detachment of United States Marines on 4 September 1945.
September 1945: Japanese in Sarawak surrender.
13.5.Border changes of Italy after World War II
Border changes of Italy in the aftermath of World War II.
October 1947: Transfer to France of Briga and Tenda, and minor revisions of the Franco-Italian border.
February 1947: Trieste and the surrounding area were incorporated into a new independent state called the Free Territory of Trieste.
October 1954: On 5 October 1954, the London Memorandum was signed in the British capital by ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, and Yugoslavia. It gave the former Zone A with Trieste to Italy for ordinary civil administration, and Zone B, which had already had a communist government since 1947, to Yugoslavia. In addition, Yugoslavia was given several villages in the municipality of Muggia that had been part of Zone A: Plavje, Spodnje Škofije, Elerji, Hrvatini, Kolomban, Cerej, Premančan, and Barizoni.
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