1 September
\r\nGermany invades Poland, beginning World War II<\/p>\r\n\r\n
3 September
\r\nGreat Britain and France declare war on Germany<\/p>\r\n\r\n
17 September
\r\nThe Red Army enters Western Belarus and Western Ukraine <\/p>\r\n\r\n
28 September
\r\nGermany and the Soviet Union sign the Treaty on Friendship and Borders<\/p>\r\n\r\n
28 October
\r\nWestern Belarus is incorporated into the USSR and the BSSR <\/p>\r\n\r\n
30 November 1939 – 12 March 1940
\r\nThe Soviet-Finnish War <\/p>\r\n\r\n
9 April
\r\nGermany invades Denmark<\/p>\r\n\r\n
April – June
\r\nGermany invades Norway<\/p>\r\n\r\n
10 May – 22 June
\r\nLarge-scale Western Offensive of German troops<\/p>\r\n\r\n
14 May
\r\nNetherlands surrender<\/p>\r\n\r\n
28 May
\r\nBelgium surrenders<\/p>\r\n\r\n
10 June
\r\nItaly declares war on France and Great Britain <\/p>\r\n\r\n
22 June
\r\nFrance signs armistice with Nazi Germany <\/p>\r\n\r\n
August
\r\nThe Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are incorporated into the USSR <\/p>\r\n\r\n
18 December
\r\nAdolf Hitler issues Operation Barbarossa directive <\/p>\r\n\r\n
22 June
\r\nNazi Germany invades the USSR, beginning the Soviet-German War<\/p>\r\n\r\n
22 June – 20 July
\r\nDefence of Brest Fortress<\/p>\r\n\r\n
28 June
\r\nMinsk is captured<\/p>\r\n\r\n
30 June
\r\nThe State Committee for Defence is created in the USSR <\/p>\r\n\r\n
7 July-26 September
\r\nDefence of Kiev<\/p>\r\n\r\n
14 July
\r\nThe Katyusha rockets first used against the Germans near Orsha in Belarus <\/p>\r\n\r\n
3 July – 26 July
\r\nDefence of Mogilev <\/p>\r\n\r\n
10 July – 10 September
\r\nBattle of Smolensk<\/p>\r\n\r\n
14 August
\r\nUSA President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain sign the Atlantic\r\nCharter <\/p>\r\n\r\n
8 September 1941 – 18 January 1943
\r\nSiege of Leningrad <\/p>\r\n\r\n
30 September 1941 – 20 April 1942
\r\nBattle of Moscow <\/p>\r\n\r\n
30 October 1941 – 4 July 1942
\r\nDefence of Sevastopol<\/p>\r\n\r\n
7 December
\r\nJapanese troops attack US naval base at Pearl Harbour. The US enters the war <\/p>\r\n\r\n
1 January
\r\nDeclaration of the United Nations is signed in Washington <\/p>\r\n\r\n
30 May
\r\nCentral Headquarters of Partisan Movement is created in Moscow <\/p>\r\n\r\n
17 July 1942 – 2 February1943
\r\nBattle of Stalingrad<\/p>\r\n\r\n
9 September
\r\nBelarusian Headquarters of Partisan Movement is created <\/p>\r\n\r\n
January
\r\nThe Casablanca Conference<\/p>\r\n\r\n
5 July – 23 August
\r\nBattle of Kursk<\/p>\r\n\r\n
August – September
\r\nFirst phase of the Rail War Operation aimed at extensive destruction of the enemy’s\r\nrailway communications <\/p>\r\n\r\n
5 August
\r\nLiberation of Orel and Belgorod. The first artillery salute in Moscow <\/p>\r\n\r\n
Mid September – beginning November
\r\nSecond phase of the Rail War <\/p>\r\n\r\n
22 September
\r\nMinsk underground fighters kill General Commissar of Belarus Wilhelm Kube <\/p>\r\n\r\n
23 September
\r\nLiberation of the first district center in Belarus – the town of Komarin <\/p>\r\n\r\n
26 November
\r\nLiberation of the first regional center in Belarus – the city of Gomel <\/p>\r\n\r\n
28 November – 1 December
\r\nThe Teheran Conference<\/p>\r\n\r\n
6 June
\r\nSecond Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy<\/p>\r\n\r\n
20 June – 28 July
\r\nThird phase of the Rail War<\/p>\r\n\r\n
23 June – 29 August
\r\nBelarusian Offensive Bagration<\/p>\r\n\r\n
26 June
\r\nLiberation of Vitebsk<\/p>\r\n\r\n
27 June
\r\nLiberation of Orsha<\/p>\r\n\r\n
27 – 29 June
\r\nEncirclement and annihilation of German troops in the Bobruisk pocket <\/p>\r\n\r\n
3 July
\r\nLiberation of the Belarusian capital Minsk <\/p>\r\n\r\n
28 July
\r\nBrest is recaptured. Complete liberation of Belarus <\/p>\r\n\r\n
23 – 24 August
\r\nRumania surrenders<\/p>\r\n\r\n
25 August
\r\nThe French Army under General Charles de Gaulle enters Paris <\/p>\r\n\r\n
4 September
\r\nFinland signs an armistice with the Soviet Union <\/p>\r\n\r\n
14 January
\r\nThe Red Army enters East Prussia <\/p>\r\n\r\n
4 – 11 February
\r\nWinston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at the Yalta Conference in\r\nthe Crimea<\/p>\r\n\r\n
16 April – 8 May
\r\nBerlin Operation<\/p>\r\n\r\n
6 -11 May
\r\nPrague Operation<\/p>\r\n\r\n
8 May
\r\nGermany signs unconditional surrender to the Allies<\/p>\r\n\r\n
9 May
\r\nVictory Day <\/p>\r\n\r\n
17 July – 2 August
\r\nThe senior leaders of the USSR, USA, and Great Britain hold the last wartime conference at\r\nPotsdam (Berlin) <\/p>\r\n\r\n
6 August
\r\nAtomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city Hiroshima<\/p>\r\n\r\n
8 August
\r\nThe USSR declares war on Japan <\/p>\r\n\r\n
9 August
\r\nAtomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city Nagasaki. Soviet Offensive in Manchuria <\/p>\r\n\r\n
2 September
\r\nJapan signs unconditional surrender. The end of the Second World War<\/p>\r\n\r\n
20 November 1945 – 1 October 1946
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