Second World War Battles
| Important Battles of the Second World War | |
|---|---|
| Battles and Offensives in the Second World War | Date |
| The German Army invades Poland. | 1st September, 1939 |
| The Red Army invades Finland. | 30th November, 1939 |
| The German Army invades Denmark. | 8th April, 1940 |
| The German Army invades Norway. | 8th April, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler launches his Western Offensive. | 10th May, 1940 |
| Evacuation from Dunkirk begins. | 27th May, 1940 |
| Start of the Battle of Britain. | 10th July, 1940 |
| Climax of the Battle of Britain. | 30th August, 1940 |
| Start of the Blitz. | 7th September, 1940 |
| Rodolfo Graziani and Italian Army make a rapid advance into Egypt. | 13th September, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion. | 17th September, 1940 |
| British Army captures Tobruk. | 22nd January, 1941 |
| Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War. | 24th March 1941 |
| Operation Punishment comes to an end. | 22nd June, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. | 22nd June, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Leningrad. | 12th August, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Moscow. | 6th October, 1941 |
| Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. | 7th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invaded Malaya, Thailand, Batann Island in the Philippines. | 8th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops invade Burma. | 11th December, 1941 |
| Hong Kong surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison. | 25th December, 1941 |
| Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore | 8th February, 1941 |
| General Arthur Percival surrenders Singapore to Japanese. | 15th February, 1942 |
| General Douglas MacArthur and the United States forces leave the Philippines | 22nd February, 1942 |
| Allied raid on St Nazaire. | 27th March, 1942 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Cologne. | 30th May, 1942 |
| Start of the battle of Midway. | 4th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie at Gazala. | 14th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel and the German Army captures Tobruk. | 21st June, 1942 |
| Allied landings at Guadalcanal. | 7th August, 1942 |
| Allied raid on Dieppe. | 14th August, 1942 |
| The German Army enters Stalingrad. | 24th August, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam el Halfa. | 30th August, 1942 |
| Bernard Montgomery orders counter-attack at El Alamein. | 23rd October, 1942 |
| Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the Dambusters Raid. | 16th May, 1943 |
| The German Army defeated at El Alamein. | 4th November, 1942 |
| The British Army recaptures Tobruk. | 13th November, 1942 |
| The Allies capture Tripoli. | 23rd January, 1943 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Hamburg. | 24th July, 1943 |
| Allied forces bomb monastery at Monte Cassino. | 15th February, 1944 |
| Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid. | 30th March, 1944 |
| Axis forces surrender Tunisia. | 11th May, 1943 |
| Second Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy. | 6th June, 1944 |
| The German Army crushes Warsaw Uprising. | 2nd October, 1944 |
| General Walter Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte. | 20th October, 1944 |
| US forces return to the Philippines at Luzon | 15th December, 1945 |
| Start of Operation Ten-Go. | 2nd February, 1945 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Dresden. | 13th February, 1945 |
| United States Army land on Iwo Jima. | 19th February, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force creates firestorm in Tokyo. | 9th March, 1945 |
| United States Army land on Okinawa. | 1st April, 1945 |
| A 700 plane kamikaze attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers.. | 6th April, 1945 |
| The Japanese giant battleship Yamato sunk off Okinawa. | 7th April, 1945 |
| End of the Battle of the Atlantic. | 7th May, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Hiroshima. | 6th August, 1945 |
| United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Nagasaki. | 9th August , 1945 |