May 20 Germans take Kerch peninsula.
May 26 Molotov signs Anglo-Soviet twenty-year Alliance in London, then visits
Washington. Rommel resumes offensive in Western Desert.
May 30 Thousand-bomber raid on Cologne.
June 3 Battle of Midway Island begins.
June 7 Germans and Rumanians launch final attack on Sebastopol.
June 11 Publication of the "Second-Front" communique.
June 19 British withdraw to Egyptian frontier.
June 21 Rommel takes Tobruk.
June 28 Eighth Army retreats to El Alamein. Beginning of great German offensive in the South.
July 3 Fall of Sebastopol.
July 19 Germans take Voroshilovgrad.
July 28 Germans retake Rostov.
July 30 Stalin's "Not another step back" order to the Army.
August 3 Germans reach Kotelnikovo.
August 7 Americans land in Guadalcanal.
August 11 Fall of Maikop and Krasnodar.
August 12-15 Churchill, Harriman and Stalin confer in Moscow.
August 19 Dieppe raid.
August 23 Germans break through to Volga, north of Stalingrad. 40,000 killed in air-raid on Stalingrad.
August 25 Germans held at Mozdok on way to Grozny and Baku.
August 31 Battle of Alam Haifa begins.
September 3 German breakthrough to Volga south of Stalingrad.
September 13 German all-out attack on Stalingrad begins.
September 24 Most of central Stalingrad in German hands.
October 14-15 Failure of most concentrated German attack on northern Stalingrad
October 23 Battle of El Alamein begins.
November 4 Rommel in full retreat.
November 8 Allied landings in French North Africa.
November 13 Sea battle of Guadalcanal.
November 19 Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins.
November 22 Over 300,000 Germans surrounded at Stalingrad.
December 12-23 Manstein's abortive attempt to relieve Stalingrad.
December 16-20 Rout of Italians on Don.
December 21 Eighth Army reaches Benghazi.
1943
January 2 German withdrawal from Caucasus begins.
January 23 Eighth Army reaches Tripoli.
January 26 Russians liberate Voronezh.
January 31 Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad.
February 2 Final German surrender at Stalingrad.
February 8 Russians take Kursk.
February 14 Russians take Rostov.
February 16 Russians take Kharkov.
March 3-12 Russians liberate Gzhatsk-Viazma-Rzhev triangle.
March 15 Germans recapture Kharkov.
March 29 Eighth Army takes Mareth Line.
April 14 Eighth Army reaches Enfidaville.
April 20 Massacre in Warsaw Ghetto.
April 26 USSR breaks off relations with London Polish Government following Katyn
"bombshell".
May 7 Allies take Tunis and Bizerta.
May 11 US troops land on Attu, Aleutian Islands.
May 12 German Army in Tunisia surrenders.
May 22 Comintern dissolved.
June 29 US forces land in New Guinea.
July 5 Battle of Kursk begins.
July 10 Allies land in Sicily.
July 12-15 Russian counter-offensive against Orel salient begins.
July 26 Mussolini falls from power.
August 5 Russians take Orel and Belgorod.
August 16 Americans enter Messina.
August 23 Russians retake Kharkov.
August 27 Japanese evacuate New Georgia Island.
August 30 Taganrog recaptured.
August 31 Glukhov recaptured.
September 3 Allies invade Italy.
September 8 Russians liberate Donbas.
September 10 Mariupol taken.
September 16 Novorossisk taken.
September 25 Smolensk taken.
September 30 Fifth Army takes Naples.
October 7 Russians clear the Taman Peninsula; Dnieper forced.
October 13 Italy declares war on Germany.
October 14 Zaporozhie recaptured.
October 18 Foreign Ministers' conference opens in Moscow.
October 19 Germans in Italy retire from Volturno river.
October 25 Dnepropetrovsk recaptured.
November 1 Americans land on Bouganville in Solomons.
November 4 Eighth Army takes Isernia.
November 6 Russians recapture Kiev.
November 12 Bridgehead established across the Sangro. Russians take Zhitomir.
November 19 German counter-offensive retakes Zhitomir.
November 20 Americans land on Tarawa and Makin Islands.
November 28 Teheran conference begins.
December 7 Fifth Army take Monte Camino.
December 26 Scharnhorst sunk.
1944
January 4 Fifth Army launches attack east of Cassino.
January 27 Leningrad completely relieved.
January 15 Americans complete reconquest of Solomon Islands.
February 17 German rout in Korsun salient in central Ukraine.
February 22 Krivoi Rog taken.
March 4 Russian spring offensive opens in Ukraine.
March 12 Uman recaptured.
March 19 Russians force the Dniester.
April 2 Russians enter Rumania.
April 11 Liberation of Crimea begins.
April 15 Tarnopol liberated.
April 22 Allies land at Hollandia, New Guinea.
May 9 Sebastopol taken.
May 12 Allies in Italy assault the Gustav Line.
May 13 Crimea cleared of Germans.
May 18 Cassino taken.
May 23 Anzio break-out.
June 4 Fifth Army enters Rome.
June 6 Allies invade Normandy.
June 10 Russians begin offensive against Finland.
June 13 First V1 bomb on London.
June 15 First Super-Fortress raid on Japan.
June 19 Americans take Saipan.
June 20 Viborg taken by Russians.
June 23 Russians begin offensive in Belorussia.
June 23-28 Germans encircled at Vitebsk and Bobruisk.
June 27 Cherbourg captured.
July 3 Russians take Minsk. About 100,000 Germans captured.
July 6 Russians take Kovel.
July 9 Caen captured.
July 13 Vilno captured.
July 18 Rokossovsky's troops enter Poland. Pskov liberated.
July 20 Attempt to assasinate Hitler.
July 23 Lublin taken.
July 25 Americans break through at St. Lo.
July 28 Brest Litovsk taken.
July 31 Russians reach outskirts of Praga, opposite Warsaw. Avranches entered.
August 1 Beginning of Warsaw Rising.
August 11 Eighth Army reaches Florence.
August 15 Allies land in south of France.
August 16 Americans near Chartres and Dreux.
August 20 Russians begin offensive in Bessarabia and Rumania.
August 23 King Michael of Rumania interns Antonescu and forms new "peace
Government.
August 25 Paris liberated.
August 26 Eighth Army opens attack in Adriatic sector.
August 30 Russians enter Bucharest and Ploesti.
September 3 British reach Brussels. Americans reach Mons.
September 4 Antwerp liberated. Cease-fire on Finnish Front.
September 5 Russians declare war on Bulgaria.
September 8 First V2 lands in Britain.
September 9 Russians invade Bulgaria.
September 10 Russians capture Praga.
September 11 Americans cross German frontier near Trier.
September 12 Rumanian armistice signed.
September 17 Arnhem battle begins.
September 19 Finnish armistice signed.
September 28 Calais liberated.
September 29 Russians enter Yugoslavia.
October 2 Surrender of underground forces in Warsaw.
October 9 Churchill arrives in Moscow.
October 19 Americans land in Philippines.
October 20 Russians and Yugoslavs enter Belgrade.
November 1 British land on Walcheren Island.
November 12 Tirpitz sunk.