World War I was a global military conflict from 1914-1918 involving many of the world's great powers. More than 70 million soldiers fought and over 15 million died, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history. World War II began in 1939 as a result of worldwide tensions and involved most nations around the globe in two opposing alliances. It resulted in over 70 million casualties and the rise of two superpowers. The document provides a detailed overview of the key events and battles of both world wars.

1. The Great World War I & II
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2. The Great World War I & II
World War I was a military conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 and involved most of
the world’s great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around
the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel,
including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More
than 15 million people were killed, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history
World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict lasting from 1939
to 1945 which involved most of the world’s nations, including all of the great powers,
organised into two opposing military alliances the Allies and the Axis. It was the most
widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised In a
state of “Total War,” the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and
scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between
civilian and military resources Marked by significant action against civilians, including the
Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in
Human history, with over seventy million casualties.

3. June 28, 1914 Francis Ferdinand of Austria assassinated at Sarajevo, Bosnia. A country
called Serbia was blamed by Austria for this murder

4. WWI BEGINS
(In 1914)

5. Kaiser Wilhelm II German Emperor, inspecting Austro-Hungarian troops
July 5, 1914 Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia

6. Domino Effect
July 28 -Aug 4, Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia helped Serbia, Germany declared
1914 war on Russia, France and invaded Belgium. Britain helped France.

7. The Central Powers
Austria-Hungarian German Empire Ottoman Empire
Empire
VS
The Allied Nations
Great Britain France Russian Empire

8. Lady Elizabeth Butler
August 24,1914 The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) started its retreat from the battle
of Mons Germany invaded France

9. August 26, 1914 Russian army defeated at Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes

10. September 6, 1914 Battle of Marne started

11. October 18, 1914 First Battle of Ypres

12. October 29,1914 Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side Trench warfare started to
dominate the Western Front

13. WWI
(In 1915)

14. January 19,1915 The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place

15. February 19, 1915 Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles

16. April 25,1915 Allied troops landed in Gallipoli

17. May 7,1915 The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat

18. May 23,1915 Italy declared war on Germany and Austria

19. August 5,1915 The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians

20. September 25,1915 Start of the Battle of Loos

21. December 19,1915 The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli

22. WWI
(In 1916)

23. January 27,1916 Conscription introduced in Britain

24. the greatest and lengthiest in world history
February 21,1916 Start of the Battle of Verdun. the greatest and lengthiest in
world history between Germany and France)

25. April 29,1916 British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia

26. May 31,1916 Battle of Jutland, the most anticipated naval battle in the history

27. June 4,1916 Start of the Brusilov Offensive by Alexi Brusilov, Russian
Commander

28. July 1,1916 Start of the Battle of the Somme the British has suffered 420000
casualties

29. William Barnes Wollen
July 23,1916 The st Buckinghamshire Battalion at Pozieres

30. August 10,1916 End of the Brusilov Offensive. It had come to a halt By this date, the
Russians had lost about 500,000 men and the Austrians 375,000 men

31. David Pentland
September 15,1916 First use en masse of tanks at the Somme

32. December 7,1916 Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister

33. WWI
(In 1917)

34. February 1,1917 Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started

35. “ No man can sit down
and withhold his hands
from the warfare against
wrong and get peace
from his acquiescence ”
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of US 1856 - 1924
“ It is not needful or possible at this time, whilst yet
he lives, to say that Wilson is a Washington or
another Lincoln, but he is a great American He is
one of the great presidents of American history ”
Rabbi Stephen A Wise in a tribute to Woodrow
Wilson
American Leaders Speak, 1918-1920
April 6,1917 USA declared war on Germany

36. April 16,1917 France launched an unsuccessful offensive on the Western Front

37. July 31,1917 Start of the Third Battle at Ypres

38. October 24,1917 Battle of Caporetto – the Italian Army was heavily defeated

39. Cambrai showed the full potential of the tank on the battlefield.
November 6-20,1917 Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front and
British tanks finally won a victory at Cambrai

40. December 5,1917 Armistice between Germany and Russia signed

41. December 9,1917 Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks

42. WWI
(In 1918)

43. March 3,1918 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany

44. March 21,1918 Germany broke through on the Somme

45. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the chief Allied delegate at the armistice negotiations
March 29,1918 Marshall Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front

46. April 9,1918 Germany started an offensive in Flanders

47. July 15,1918 Second Battle of the Marne started The start of the collapse of the
German army

48. August 8,1918 The advance of the Allies was successful

49. September 19,1918 Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo

50. October 4,1918 Germany asked the Allies for an armistice
October 29,1918 Germany’s navy mutinied

51. October 30, 1918 Turkey made peace
November 3,1918 Austria made peace

52. November 9,1918 Kaiser William II abdicated

53. November 11,1918 Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of
the end of World War One.

54. WWI ENDS
(In 1918)

55. “Blaming Germany's military defeat on the 1918 Revolutions, He considered Jews the
culprit of Imperial Germany's downfall and subsequent economic problems as well.”

56. 15 Years Later
(In 1933)

57. “ I speak in the name of the entire German people when I
assure the world that we all share the honest wish to
eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any
possible benefits It would be a wonderful thing for all of
humanity if both peoples would renounce force against
each other forever The German people are ready to make
”
such a pledge
Adolf Hitler - 14th October 1933

58. National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)

59. He came back with the “ Power ”.

60. 1933 Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany. He abolishes democracy and becomes a
dictator. The party’s name is National Socialist German Workers Party. (Nazi)

61. 1935 The German military enters the neutral Saar region, Hitler resumes conscription to
the German military.

62. Rome-Berlin Axis
“These fascist dictators believed that the world would revolve around the “Rome-Berlin Axis”.
1936 The German military enters the demilitarized Rhine region The German-Italian
Axis is formed

63. 1937 Japan, which already occupies Manchuria, invades central China

64. 1938 Hitler annexes Austria and western Czechoslovakia

65. - Hitler annexes Austria and western Czechoslovakia
March 1939 Czechoslovakia surrenders to imminent German invasion

66. April 1939 Hitler cancels the German-British naval agreement and the German-Polish
non-aggression pact Italy invades Albania

67. July 1939 Polish intelligence passes all its knowledge about the German Enigma
machine to British and French intelligence

68. Non-aggression pact
However, Hitler knew he would eventually invade Soviet Union.
August 1939 Germany and Russia sign non-aggression pact, secretly agreeing to invade Poland
and share it German U-boats and battleships sail to the Atlantic Ocean for war

69. WWII BEGINS
(In 1939)

70. September 1,1939 Germany invades Poland, World War 2 begins

71. September 3,1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany.

72. September 8,1939 The US remains neutral but president Roosevelt declares limited
national emergency

73. September 17,1939 Russia invades Poland
September 27,1939 Warsaw surrenders
October 6,1939 The last remaining Polish forces surrender

74. November 30,1939 Russia invades Finland

75. WWII
(In 1940)

76. Joseph Stalin of Russia Adolf Hitler of Germany
March 12,1940 Russia-Finland war ends. It convinces Hitler that the Russian military is
ineffective.

77. April 8,1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway

78. May 10,1940 Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg Winston
Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister

79. May 27,1940 Evacuation of British and French forces to Britain at Dunkirk begins.
June 4,1940 The evacuation at Dunkirk ends 338,000 troops were rescued Churchill
declares that Britain will never surrender

80. June 10,1940 Italy declares war on the collapsing France and on Britain

81. June 14,1940 German troops march into Paris
June 22,1940 France surrender

82. June 18,1940 Russia invades Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
June 27,1940 Russia annexes the eastern regions of Romania.

83. July 1,1940 Germany invades the British Channel islands.
July 10,1940 The Battle of Britain air campaign begins
July 18,1940 Churchill declares this is Britain's finest hour.

84. August 8,1940 The Luftwaffe begins to bomb British early warning radars
August 15,1940 The Luftwaffe loses 76 aircrafts in one day

85. August 25,1940 British night bombers bomb Berlin

86. Sept 3,1940 Hitler changes the Luftwaffe's objective from destroying the Royal Air Force to
bombing London. This allows the R.A.F to recover and win the battle of Britain.

87. Sept 13,1940 Italy invades British-held Egypt from Libya, the North African campaign
begins.

88. Sept 15,1940 The largest Luftwaffe daytime bombardment, it loses 56 aircraft

89. Sept 27,1940 Japan joins The Axis

90. Oct 7,1940 German troops enter their Ally Romania, Germany's only source of oil
which is threatened by Russia

91. Nov 11,1940 British carrier aircraft sink Italian fleet in Taranto's harbor Yamamoto in
Japan is impressed by their success

92. Nov 20,1940 Hungary and Romania, both military dictatorships, join The Axis.

93. Dec 9,1940 British forces in Egypt counter attack the Italians and advance along the
Libyan coast

94. WWII
(In 1941)

95. Jan 12,1941 Hitler sends Rommel and the Afrika Korps to help the Italians in North Africa
Mar 3, 1941 Rommel attacks the British forces in North Africa.

96. Mar 5, 1941 British troops arrive at Greece to support it.
Apr 6,1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
Apr 17,1941 British forces evacuate Greek mainland to Crete
Apr 27,1941 German troops occupy Athens
May 20,1941 German paratroopers and airborne troops invade Crete by air
May 31,1941 British forces in Crete surrender.

97. Matsuoka
April 13,1941 After military clashes, Japan and Russia sign non-aggression pact.

98. Operation Barbarossa begins when 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invade the USSR
along an 1,800 mile front Clark II
June 22,1941 Germany invades Russia Hitler orders maximum cruelty against
civilians, which results in fanatic Russian resistance
July 3,1941 Joseph Stalin orders the "scorched earth" strategy.
July 16,1941 German army group "Center" takes Smolensk, just 220 miles from
July 21, 1941 Moscow.The Luftwaffe bombs Moscow

99. Matsuoka
July 24,1941 Japan invades French Indo-China Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

100. July 29,1941 Hitler, eager to occupy the rich Ukraine first, orders to stop army group
Center's advance to Moscow and to transfer its two tank armies to army
groups "North" and "South". This is perhaps Hitler's greatest mistake
The German Generals argue in vain against it.

101. The final solution. A Nazi about to shoot the last
Hermann Goering Jew left alive in Vinica
July 31,1941 Hermann Goering orders the SS to prepare "the final solution", the plan to
murder the millions of European jews.

102. War in Russia
Siege of Leningrad
Sept 6,1941 Hitler orders to resume the advance to Moscow, in order to take it in the
limited time before winter Army group Center , is given back its two
tank armies, plus a third tank army and additional air units.
Sept 15,1941 The long German siege of Leningrad begins.
Sept 18,1941 The Germans in the South occupy Kiev and reach the Crimea

103. Soviet refugees during German invasion
Oct 2,1941 The final German attack towards Moscow begins (operation Typhoon).
Oct 5,1941 Rains stop German advance to Moscow due to deep mud which stops
both tanks and infantry.
Oct 16,1941 Russian government leaves Moscow, the Germans occupy Odessa.

104. Oct 26,1941 The Germans occupy Kharkov
Nov 15,1941 With the mud frozen by the dropping temperatures, German advance to
Moscow resumes.

105. A 1941 WWII Soviet poster by Kukryniksy Artists reminding Russians about the traditions of Alexander Nevsky,
Alexander Suvorov, and Vasily Chapayev
Nov 30,1941 The foremost German forces reach 27km from Moscow, but can advance no
further due to strong Russian resistance.
Dec 6,1941 At temperatures of -34C (-29F) and below, a major Russian counter attack
near Moscow begins. Moscow is saved, and the Germans are pushed back.

106. War in Asia
General Tojo
Oct 17,1941 General Tojo becomes Japan's prime minister
Dec 7, 1941 The Japanese Navy attacks Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines, and the US
joins the war.
Dec 11,1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the US.
Dec 19,1941 Hitler orders "fanatic resistance" and appoints himself military
commander-in-chief.

107. Imperial
Japan
Emperor Hirohito
•General Hideki Tojo •Admiral Yamamoto
• Prime Minister •planned the attack on
•Pearl Harbor.
•Japanese military leaders had increased control in post WW I Japan.

108. Pearl Harbor, the tuning point of WWII, USA joined the War!

109. “ With the German failure to defeat
Russia, which is marked by their
failure to take Moscow, and with
the United States joining the war
a day later, This date marks the
main turning point of World War II
”

110. The Axis
Italy Germany Japan
VS
The Allied Nations
Great Britain France USSR USA

111. WWII
(In 1942)

112. In 1942 The wars took place mainly in 3 areas, which were
Russia by Germany, Asia by Japan, and Africa by Germany.

113. March 20,1942 industrial scale murder of jews by poison gas begins in Nazi death camps

114. War in Asia
Jan 2,1942 Japanese forces occupy Manila
Jan 10,1942 Japanese forces invades Indonesia
Jan 11,1942 Japanese forces occupy Malaysia
Jan 12,1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
Jan 25,1942 Japanese forces invade the Solomon islands
Feb 15,1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese

115. April 18,1942 Doolittle's raid - US bombers bomb Tokyo

116. April 18,1942 Battle of the Coral Sea One Japanese carrier and one American carrier are
May 6,1942 sunk

117. June 4,1942 The battle of Midway. Four Japanese carriers are sunk, and one American
carrier. Japan's naval superiority is lost.
Jul 3,1942 Japanese forces land in Guadalcanal
Aug 7,1942 US forces land in Guadalcanal

118. War in Russia
Jan 13,1942 German U-boats begin to sink ships along the US East coast
May 8,1942 The German spring offensive in southern Russia begins.
Jul 28,1942 Stalin forbids further Russian retreats, at any cost

119. War in Russia
Aug 23,1942 The German 6th army reach Stalingrad, the battle of Stalingrad begins.
Sep 6,1942 The German advance in Stalingrad is stopped.
Nov 19,1942 The Russian flanking counter attack around Stalingrad begins
Dec 19,1942 The Germans fail to break the encirclement of their army in Stalingrad

120. Jan 21,1942 Rommel begins another offensive in North Africa
Aug 13,1942 Montgomery becomes commander of the British 8th army
Sep 23,1942 The battle of El Alamein in North Africa begins.
Nov 8,1942 Allied forces land in western North Africa, at Rommel's back

121. WWII
(In 1943)

122. In 1943 The wars took place mainly in 2 areas, which were
Russia by Germany, and moving Africa battle to North
Atlantic ocean by Germany, and Italy was defeated.

123. War in Russia
Germany would never go on offensive again against the USSR
Feb 2,1943 The last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
July 5,1943 The battle of Kursk begins
Sep 25,1943 The Russians liberate Smolensk
October Allied anti submarine bases established in the Azores, in the middle of
the Atlantic Ocean
Nov 6,1943 The Russians liberate Kiev

124. General Erwin Rommel
May 13,1943 The long North Africa campaign ends. The Allies control North Africa
May 22,1943 41 German U-boats sunk in 3 weeks Doenitz retreats all U-boats from
the North atlantic
July 10,1943 The Allies invade Sicily
Nov 19,1943 The Marines land in Tarawa
November Rommel takes command of the "atlantic wall" in the French coast

125. Mussolini was arrested and executed while trying to escape to Switzerland
July 25,1943 Mussolini is replaced and arrested.
Sept 3,1943 The Allies invade Italy's mainland
Sept 8,1943 Italy surrenders The German forces in northern and central Italy occupy it

126. Dec 1943 P-51 fighters provide all-the-way long range escort to bombers over

127. WWII
(In 1944)

128. Jan 16, 1943 Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of western allies forces

129. War in Russia
March The Russians advance into the Ukraine
Apr10,1944 The Russians liberate Odessa
Jun22,1944 The Russians advance to Belarus
Jun27,1944 Cherburg is liberated

130. Romania surrenders to the Russians
Jun28,1944 The Russians reach the old German-Russian border in central Poland
Aug23,1944 Romania surrenders to the Russians Its oil fields were Germany's only
source of natural oil
Spe6,1944 Finland and Bulgaria surrenders to the Russians
Oct19,1944 The Germans evacuate Riga, Latvia

131. War in Asia
Battle of the Phillippine sea
Jun 15,1944 The Marines land in Saipan
Jun 19,1944 Battle of the Phillippine sea
Jul 24,1944 The Marines land in Tinian
Oct 20,1944 The Marines land in Leyte, in the Philippines In response, the Japanese
Navy begins to use Kamikaze suicide pilots.
Nov 14,1944 B-29 bombers begin to bomb Tokyo from bases in the Mariana islands

132. War in Europe
the beaches of Normandy
May 1944 Allied bombers begin to concentrate on the German fuel industry
Jun 5,1944 The German Navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time.
Jun 6,1944 D-Day. American, British, Canadian forces invade France at the beaches of
Normandy

133. Hitler survives
Jul 12,1944 1st German V-1 cruise missile attack on Britain
Jul 20,1944 Hitler survives an assassination attempt by senior German officers with
light wounds.
July21,1945 Hitler appoints General Guderian to chief of the army OKH The Marines
land in Guam

134. General Gorge S.Patton
Jul 30,1944 General Gorge S.Patton breaks out of the beachhead deep into France
Aug 1,1944 Warsaw revolts against the Germans
Aug 15,1944 The Allies land in southern France
Aug 25,1944 Paris is liberated.

135. Allied started fighting back
August Allied fighters achieve air superiority over Germany
Sep 8,1944 1st German V-2 ballistic missile attack on Britain
Sep 17,1944 Operation Market Garden in Holland
Oct 5,1944 British forces land in Greece
Dec 16,1944 The German attack in the Ardennes begin

136. WWII
(In 1945)

137. War in Europe
the Auschwitz death camp
Jan 23,1945 The Russians reach Germany itself at the Oder river
Jan 27,1945 The Russians liberate the Auschwitz death camp
Jan 28,1945 The Ardennes campaign ends

138. Feb 4-11,1945 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta,

139. Allied Officers & Soldiers view the carnage at Buchenwald after liberation
Feb 13,1945 The Russians occupy Budapest, Hungary Dresden bombed.
Apr 11,1945 The Allies liberate the Buchenwald death camp

140. The Russians enter Vienna
Apr 13,1945 The Russians enter Vienna
Apr 16,1945 The Russians begin final advance to Berlin
Apr 25,1945 American and Russian forces meet

141. German defense in northern Italy finally collapse
Mar 6,1945 The Allies occupy Cologne, Germany
Mar 7,1945 US forces cross the Rhine on the Remagen bridge
Mar 27,1945 V-2 missile attacks end
Apr 1,1945 German forces encircled in the Ruhr by the Americans
Apr 10,1945 The Allies occupy Hannover
Apr 26,1945 German defense in northern Italy finally collapse

142. The End of Mussolini
Apr 29,1945 Mussolini is executed by the Italian resistance The Allies liberate the
Dachau death camp

143. Apr 30,1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin. He appoints Admiral
Doenitz as his successor.

144. May 8,1945 Germany surrenders The war in Europe ends

145. War in Asia
Jan 9,1945 The Marines land in Luzon in the Philippines
Feb 19,1945 The Marines land in Iwo Jima
Mar 4,1945 Manila is liberated
Mar 16,1945 The battle of Iwo Jima ends
Mar 27,1945 V- missile attacks end

146. Apr 6,1945 The Marines land in Okinawa. Japan orders all its forces to use Kamikaze
suicide tactic
Apr 7,1945 The super battleship Yamato is sunk on its way to a Kamikaze fight in Okinawa

147. April 12,1945 President Roosevelt dies.

148. May 28,1945 450 B-29 bombers bomb Yokohama
Jun 2,1945 660 B-29 bombers bomb Japanese cities
Jun21,1945 Battle of Okinawa ends

149. First atomic bomb test, near Alamogordo, New Mexico
July16,1945 Jul 16 - the US tests the atomic bomb in New Mexico It works

150. Hiroshima
Aug 6,1945 Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb, named “Little Boy”.

151. Nagasaki
Aug 9,1945 Nagasaki is destroyed by an atomic bomb name “Fat Man”.

152. Aug 14,1945 Aug 14 - Japan surrenders

153. Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument
Of Surrender on board USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches,
Sept 2,1945 Japan signs instrument of surrender. The World War 2 finally ends.

154. “
Sure, we want to go home We want this war over
with The quickest way to get it over with is to go
get the bastards who started it The quicker they
are whipped, the quicker we can go home The
shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo
And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going
to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler
Just like I'd shoot a snake
General George S Patton – ”
(addressing to his troops before
Operation Overlord) - 5th June 1944

155. Thank You Very Much
Sompong Yusoontorn