Timeline of World War 2 from Oct 1939
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany
Oct 1939:
Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany
A 24 July 1939 killing of a severely disabled infant in Nazi Germany was described in a BBC "Genocid...
8 Nov 1939:
Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out a...
30 Nov 1939:
Soviets attack Finland
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939–1940. It began w...
14 Dec 1939:
Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
Between 1920 and 1939, a total of 63 countries became member states of the League of Nations. The Co...
8 Jan 1940:
Rationing begins in Britain
After the Second World War began in September 1939 the first commodity to be controlled was petrol. ...
12 Mar 1940:
Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets
The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed by Finland and the Soviet Union on 12 March 1940, and the ratific...
16 Mar 1940:
Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland
German air raid on Scapa Flow causes first British civilian casualties.||https://en.wikipedia.org/...
18 Mar 1940:
Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich
During the Second World War, German Führer Adolf Hitler and Italian Duce Benito Mussolini met at Bre...
9 Apr 1940:
Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
The German invasion of Denmark was the fighting that followed the German army crossing the Danish bo...
10 May 1940:
Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
In April 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway to protect shipments of iron ore from Sweden, whic...
10 May 1940:
Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman w...
15 May 1940:
Holland surrenders to the Nazis
The direct involvement of the Netherlands in World War II began with its invasion by Nazi Germany on...
26 May 1940:
Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the e...
28 May 1940:
Belgium surrenders to the Nazis
Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found thems...
2 Jun 1940:
Germans bomb Paris
The Germans attacked France on 10 May 1940, bypassing the Maginot Line and going all the way to the ...
10 Jun 1940:
Norway surrenders to the Nazis
The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940 after German forces invaded the neutral Scandi...
10 Jun 1940:
Italy declares war on Britain and France
On 10 June 1940, as the French government fled to Bordeaux during the German invasion, declaring Par...
14 Jun 1940:
Germans enter Paris
On 14 June 1940, the German army marched into Paris, which had been declared an "open city". On 16–1...
16 Jun 1940:
Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe...
18 Jun 1940:
Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States
The Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 refers, according to the European Court of Human Rights, the...
22 Jun 1940:
France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by officials of Nazi Germa...
25 Jun 1940:
Hitler tours Paris
On 25 June 1940, Adolf Hitler began his first and only tour of Paris, with Albert Speer and an entou...
1 Jul 1940:
German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic
By the summer of 1940, Britain faced a serious threat of invasion. Many destroyers were held in the ...
4 Jul 1940:
French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain
Vichy France breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_Fr...
10 Jul 1940:
Battle of Britain begins
The Battle of Britain (German: die Luftschlacht um England, literally "Air battle for England") was ...
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Timeline of World War 2 from Oct 1939
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany