First Canadian troops arrive in Europe 21 / 02 / 40 Work begins on the construction of concentration camp at Auschwitz. Allied evacuation of Dunkirk begins 10 / 06 / 40 Italy declares war on Britain and France. U.s. Ambassador to Japan informs the State Department that Japan plans to attack pearl harbor.
First Canadian troops arrive in Europe 21 / 02 / 40 Work begins on the construction of concentration camp at Auschwitz. Allied evacuation of Dunkirk begins 10 / 06 / 40 Italy declares war on Britain and France. U.s. Ambassador to Japan informs the State Department that Japan plans to attack pearl harbor.
First Canadian troops arrive in Europe 21 / 02 / 40 Work begins on the construction of concentration camp at Auschwitz. Allied evacuation of Dunkirk begins 10 / 06 / 40 Italy declares war on Britain and France. U.s. Ambassador to Japan informs the State Department that Japan plans to attack pearl harbor.
03/09/39 Britain and France declare war on Germany 10/09/39 Canada declares war on Germany 09/10/39 Hitler issues orders to prepare for the invasion of Belgium, et. al. 14/12/39 The USSR is expelled from the League of Nations 18/12/39 The first Canadian troops arrive in Europe
21/02/40 Work begins on the construction of concentration camp at Auschwitz 18/03/40 Agreed that Italy will enter the war at an opportune moment 28/03/40 Britain and France make a formal agreement that neither country will seek a separate peace agreement with Germany 09/04/40 Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Denmark surrenders 10/05/40 Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, ending the Phoney War Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain 26/05/40 Operation Dynamo (allied evacuation of Dunkirk) begins 10/06/40 Italy declares war on Britain and France Canada declares war on Italy 21/06/40 National Resource Mobilization Act is passed and allows for conscription for home defence 22/06/40 France surrenders to Germany 09/07/40 German Luftwaffe attacks Britain (Battle of Britain) in preparation for Operation Sealion 07/09/40 London Blitz begins (nightly bombings in London) 18/12/40 Confirmation of plans for Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union)
27/01/41 Joseph Grew (US Ambassador to Japan) informs the U.S. State Department that Japan plans to attack Pearl Harbor 22/06/41 Germany invades the USSR (Operation Barbarossa) 12/07/41 Britain and the USSR sign a formal agreement that neither country will seek a separate peace agreement with Germany 16/11/41 Canadian battalions arrive in Hong Kong 07/12/41 Japan launches an aerial attack on Pearl Harbor and declares war on the United States and Britain Canada declares war on Japan 08/12/41 United States declares war on Japan Japan invades Hong Kong 11/12/41 Germany and Italy declare war on the United States (and United States declares war on Germany and Italy) 25/12/41 Canadian soldiers are amongst those forced to surrender as the Japanese take Hong Kong (Canadians first battle) 24/02/42 Japanese-Canadians sent to internment camps 27/04/42 Canadians vote in favour of conscription in 1942 National Plebiscite on Conscription 09/07/42 Anne Franks family goes into hiding in an attic above her fathers office in Amsterdam 19/08/42 Battle of Dieppe (Operation Jubilee) by British and Canadian forces ends in disaster
10/07/43 Canadian troops participate in an invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy, marking the beginning of allied invasion 24/07/43 British, Canadian and American airplanes begin bombing Hamburg in Operation Gomorrah 19/08/43 Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Qubec Agreement co-ordinating nuclear bomb research 03/09/43 British and Canadian troops invade Italy 20/12/43 Battle of Ortona, German paratroopers defeated
08/05/44 D-Day for Operation Overlord set for 5 June 1944 04/06/44 Operation Overlord postponed 24 hours due to high seas 05/06/44 British airplanes bomb German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day 06/06/44 Battle of Normandy begins; Canadians land on Juno Beach 20/07/44 German dissidents attempt to assassinate Hitler 01/09/44 Dieppe is liberated by Canadian soldiers, followed by many other cities 12/09/44 Battle of the Scheldt (Canadians given task of clearing Scheldt estuary)
04/02/45 Yalta Conference held to discuss post-war reorganization of Europe 28/04/45 Italian partisans capture and execute Mussolini 30/04/45 Hitler commits suicide in Berlin 04/05/45 Canadian soldiers liberate Netherlands from German control 07/05/45 Germany surrenders 17/07/45 Potsdam Conference defines terms to end the war, Japan ignores terms 06/08/45 United States drops atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima 09/08/45 United States drops atomic bomb (Fat Man) on Nagasaki 15/08/45 Japan surrenders 02/09/45 Japan signs official papers with United States, ending the war