20th+: April 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

●● Timeline WW2

Neville Chamberlain - Britain's Declaration 1939 > .
iqsquared debate Chamberlain Did The Right Thing > .

ЖЖ WW2 timeline - Allies ..

Aftermaths:
Nuremberg Trials:
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/the-aftermath-of-wwii-what-were-the-nuremberg-trials/

● 1939, December ..
● 1940, December ..
● 1941, December ..
● 1942, December ..
● 1943, December ..
● 1944, December ..
● 1945, December ..

Professor Vernon Bogdanor:
Gresham Bogdanor playlist >> .
Britain in the 20th Century: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences > .
Britain and the Continent > .
Britain in the 20th Century: "Appeasement" > .
The Legacy of Winston Churchill > .

39-9-3 War Declared ..

40-5-26 to 40-6-4 Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo ..

41-12-7 Pearl Harbor ..

42-2-8 to -15 Battle of Singapore ..

42-8-19 Dieppe Raid ..

43-5-16 Dambusters - Operation Chastise ..

44-6-6 D-Day - June 6, 1944 ..

45-3-1 Yalta Big Three ..
45-4-23 Battle of Berlin ..
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

playlists:
Timeline WW2 - 39 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 40 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 41 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 42 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 43 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 44 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 45 >>> .

WWII Timeline .
1935 WWII Timeline .
1936 WWII Timeline .
1937 WWII Timeline .
1938 WWII Timeline .
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1940 WWII Timeline .
1941 WWII Timeline .
1942 WWII Timeline .
1943 WWII Timeline .
1944 WWII Timeline .
1945 WWII Timeline .

Sunday, April 29, 2018

ЖЖ Allies timeline WW2

Interbellum ..

Home Front timeline & links ..

1 to 2 - Interbellum - Time To Remember >> .
'18 to '39 - Armistice to Declaration of War >> .

39-8-23 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop 1939, 23rd August

39-8-23 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 23 Aug '39

39-9-1 to 39-10-6 Invasion of Poland 1939, Sept 1

39-9-1 - Nazi Germany invades Poland - 1939, 1st September

39-9-3 - Second World War begins for UK - 1939, 3rd September
39-9-3 Chamberlain declares war > .

39-9-27 -- Warsaw Surrenders - 1939, 27 Sep

39-12-18 Churchill Announces Admiral Graf Spee Scuttled (39-12-17)

30-12-25 The Council of the Allies meets in Paris (25 Dec 1939)

1940

40-3-17 Hitler & Mussolini @ Brenner Pass

40-4-9 - Operation Weserübung - Invasion of Norway & Denmark

40-5-17 Nazis Occupy Brussels - 1940, 17 May

40-6-4 Dunkirk evacuation ends | '40, June 4

40-7-3 : British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir | 1940, 3 July

40-7-10 Battle of Britain Begins - 1940, 10 July

40-9-7 - The Blitz Begins - 1940, 7 Sept

40-9-15 Battle of Britain finale - 13 Hours That Saved Britain

40-9-15 13 Hours That Saved Britain - 1940, 15th September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjKODQYYfg

40-10-28 Italy Invades Greece - 1940, 28 Oct

40-11-11 Taranto Raid - Operation Judgement .. Italian Pearl Harbor

1941

41-5-10 Hess Flees To Scotland - 1941, 10 May

41-5-(20-27) Bismarck & Denmark Strait; Hood, Prince of Wales

41-5-26 & 41-5-27 Bismarck sunk

41-5-27 Sinking of the Bismarck - 1941, 27 May

41-6-22 to 41-12-5 Operation Barbarossa

41-9-8 - Start of the Siege of Leningrad - 1941, 8th September

Siege of Leningrad | History of WW2 (subs) - Katz > .

41-12-7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ..
41-12-22 Mr Churchill goes to Washington

1942

42-1-1 Edward R. Murrow on the streets of wartime London at night ..
42-2-10 Normadie/Lafayette fire, capsize NYC harbor

42-2-11 Unternehmen Donnerkeil (Operation Thunderbolt)

42-2-27 to 28 Bruneval Raid - Operation Biting ..

42-3-28 Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid, 28th March 1942

42-4-21 Princess Elizabeth's Sixteenth Birthday

42-4-23 Baedecker Blitz 42-6-1 ..

42-8-7 U.S. Guadalcanal Landing - 1942, 7 Aug

42-8-19 Dieppe Raid = Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter, official code-name Operation Jubilee

42-10-23 British El Alamein Offensive - 1942, 23 Oct

42-11-27 Toulon Scuttling by French Navy .. 42-11-27 French Navy Scuttles Ships

42-12-4 Raid On Naples

1943

43-1-14 Casablanca Conference

43-2-9 Guadalcanal Battle Ends - 1943, 9 Feb

43-4-5 Wadi Akarit - 1943, 5 Apr

43-5-16 Dambusters
43-5-16 Operation Chastise (Dambuster) raid on Möhne, Edersee, and Sorpe Dams

43-7-10 Sicily Invaded - 1943, 10 July

43-18-17 Messina entered - 1943, 17 Aug*

43-11-16 WWII: Tehran Conference - 1943, 28 Nov 16

43-5-17 Tunisian Victory - Complete

1944

44-3-6 Berlin Bombing

44-4-22 Exercise Tiger 44-4-30 ..

44-5-16 Monte Cassino falls

June '44 to May '45 -- Hitler's Last Year
June 44 to 45 ..

44-6-6 D-Day Operation Neptune ..

44-6-6 June 6, 1944 - D-Day

44-6-6 D-Day plan of operations: Timeline of events 44-4-22 to 44-8-25

44-6-10 WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre ..

44-7-1 Bretton Woods Conference (to) 44-7-21 ..

44-8-20 - Operation Valkyrie - 1944, 20th July

44-8-25 - Paris liberated from Nazi control - 1944, 25th August

44-9-3 Entry Into Brussels Aka Brussels Delivered! - 3 September, 1944

44-9-4 Antwerp - Before and After The Huns Left - 1944 4 Sept

44-9-12 2nd Quebec Conference - 1944, 12 Sept

44-11-12 Tirpitz sunk

44-12-16 to 45-1-25 Battle of the Bulge

1945

45-1-17 WWII: Warsaw Liberated - 1945, 17 Jan

45-2-13 Bombing of Dresden

45-2-16 US troops Corregidor

45-2-(18-24) The Last Days of World War II 01 18-24 February
45-3 - (4 - 10) The Last Days of World War II 03 04 - 10 March

45-3-7 Battle of Remagen 45-3-17 ..
45-3-7 U.S. Forces Enter Remagen - 1945, 7 Mar

45-3-20 Mandalay Liberated

45-4-1 Okinawa Invasion Begins
45-4-23 Battle of Berlin ..

45-4-26 Arrest of Pétain ..

45-4-27 End of Mussolini - 1945, 27 Apr

45-5-2 Fall of Berlin

45-5-5 Battle for Castle Itter ..

45-5-8 VE Day - Victory in Europe ..
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

45-5-23 Himmler commits suicide

45-6-21 Post-war Berlin ..

45-6-22 Okinawa - 1945, 22 June

45-8-2 WWII: Potsdam Conference Ends - 1945, 2 Aug

45-8-6 The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima 1945, 6th August

45-8-9 Nagasaki Bombed - 1945, 9 Aug

45-8-15 V-J Day - Victory over Japan Day ..

45-8-30 MacArthur In Japan - 1945, 30 Aug

1946

46-1-3 William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw, is hanged at Wandsworth Gaol

1946-3-5 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech ..

1948

48-4-3 Marshall Plan - Truman
https://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/BritishPathe/n6tHWs5t

48-6-24 Berlin Blockade - 1948, 24 June

1949

49-4-4 NATO Established - 1949, 4 Apr

49-5-5 Council Of Europe Formed - 1949, 5 May

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Жχ Axis timeline

Жχ Axis timeline

1 to 2 - Interbellum - Time To Remember >> .
'18 to '39 - Armistice to Declaration of War >> .

Axis: Hitler & Mussolini

'33 Reichstag Gutted By Fire - 1933, 27 Feb 17

33-10-14 Germany Exits League of Nations - 1933, 14 Oct

34-6-30 to 34-7-2 Night of the Long Knives -- Hitler purges the Nazi party

34-8-2 | Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany after Hindenburg's dies | 1934, 2nd August

36-03-07 Remilitarization of the Rhineland

36-3-7 German troops enter Rhineland

36-5-5 Addis Ababa Falls to Mussolini 1936, 5 May

36-7-26 26th Germany and Italy agree to support Franco in the Spanish Civil War - July 1936

38-03-12 Anschluß Österreichs
38-3-12: Anschluß: Müffs & Concepts

38-3-12 Germany Annexes Austria - 12 Mar 17, 1938

38-11-9 Kristallnacht 1938, 9–10 November

38-09-29 & 38-09-30 Munich Agreement & Peace in Our Time

39-3-14 Czechoslovakia Dissolved

39-5-17 Royal Tour of Canada - 1939, May 17

39-8-23 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 23 Aug '39
39-8-23 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 1939, 23 Aug > .
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - HiMa > .

39-8-23 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop 1939, 23rd August

23rd August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop - HiPo > .

WAR

39-9-3 Chamberlain declares war > .

39-9-27 -- Warsaw Surrenders - 1939, 27 Sep

40-3-17 Hitler & Mussolini @ Brenner Pass

40-10-28 Italy Invades Greece - 1940, 28 Oct

41-5-10 Hess Flees To Scotland - 1941, 10 May

41-9-8 - Start of the Siege of Leningrad - 1941, 8th September

44-3-6 Berlin Bombing

44-8-20 - Operation Valkyrie - 1944, 20th July
"Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler is the definitive film on Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the ‘Valkyrie’ conspiracy to assassinate Hitler on 20th July, 1944.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIcV52DQss .

Sunday, April 22, 2018

γγ Government timeline

γγ Government timeline

1 to 2 - Interbellum - Time To Remember >> .
'18 to '39 - Armistice to Declaration of War >> .

36-10-4 -- The Battle of Cable Street -- 1936, 4th October
https://wwdeux.blogspot.com/2017/12/1936-jlde.html .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzDeaccMqk .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street .
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/they-shall-not-pass-fighting-fascism-in-1930s-britain/ .

1938

The Munich Agreement ( Münchner Abkommen) or Munich Betrayal was an agreement concluded at Munich, September 29, 1938, by Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory" of Czechoslovakia. Most of Europe celebrated because it prevented the war threatened by Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland, a region of western Czechoslovakia inhabited by 800,000 people, mainly German speakers. Hitler announced it was his last territorial claim in Europe, and the choice seemed to be between war and appeasement.
38-11-30 Chamberlain, Munich Agreement > .
Four power conference > .

1939

39-4-27 Military Training Act → conscription
39-9-3 Chamberlain declares war > .

1940

Chamberlain speech, early 1940 > .

40-5-10 Neville Chamberlain – Resignation Speech (Full version) – 10 May 1940 > .

40-5-10 Edward Morrow report on Chamberlain's Resignation > .

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Њ Home Front timeline

Britain Home Front

'18 to '39 - Armistice to Declaration of War >> .

Home Front timeline & links ..

36-10-4 -- The Battle of Cable Street -- 1936, 4th October

'38-'45 WLA

39-9-3 - Second World War begins for UK - 1939, 3rd September

40-6-4 Dunkirk evacuation ends '40, June 4

40-7-10 Battle of Britain Begins - 1940, 10 July

40-9-7 - The Blitz Begins - 1940, 7 Sept

44-6-6 June 6, 1944 - D-Day

45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill speech

45-8-15 V-J Day - Victory over Japan Day ..

46-1-3 William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw, is hanged at Wandsworth Gaol

Churchill

41-12-22 Mr Churchill goes to Washington

43-1-14 Casablanca Conference

43-11-16 WWII: Tehran Conference - 1943, 28 Nov 16

44-9-12 2nd Quebec Conference - 1944, 12 Sept

45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

1946-3-5 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech ..

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Σ Services timeline

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Џ US timeline

Џ USA timeline

33-2-17 Attempted assassination of FDR

33-11-16 U.S. - Soviet Diplomatic Relations - 1933, 16 Nov

39-4-30 New York World's Fair - 1939, 30 Apr

39-8-28 Edward R. Morrow on European situation > .
This is Edward R. Morrow - documentary > .
https://www.youtube.com/user/kdowns1453/videos .

1940

40-5-10 Edward R. Morrow report on Chamberlain's Resignation > .

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41-12-8 USA declares war on Japan -- December 8, 1941

41-12-12 Normandie Seized - 1941, 12 Dec

45-2-16 US troops Corregidor

45-4-1 Okinawa Invasion Begins

45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

48-4-3 Marshall Plan - Truman

48-9-19 Axis Sally Indicted - 1948, 10 Sept

49-4-4 NATO Established

MIT timeline
http://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/mit-timeline/ .

Я USSR timeline

Я USSR timeline

33-11-16 U.S.- Soviet Diplomatic Relations - 1933, 16 Nov > .

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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 39-8-23 to 41-6-22 ..39-8-23 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop, 23rd August 1939 > .
39-8-23 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop 1939, 23rd August > .
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41-9-8 - Start of the Siege of Leningrad - 1941, 8th September > .

42-08-23 Battle of Stalingrad 43-02-02 > .

1946-3-5 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech ..
46-3-5 Churchill Iron Curtain speech > .

55-5-14 - Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance - 1955, May 14 | Dissolved 25 February, 1991

● 1945, December

1945 > .
1945 - Sutton Hoo >> .
Timeline WW2 - 45 >>> .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945

Friday, April 6, 2018

WI - Women's Institute

Canning Machine, WI > .

Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers > .

A Force to be Reckoned With: History of the Women's Institute > .

Women's Institute of 1940 | Wartime Farm - AbHi > .

Women's Institute (1950-1959) - Pathé > .

Harry & Edna on the Wireless ~ WW2 Women's Institute Reenactment > .

>> Homefront WW2 >>>

The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organisation for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897. It was based on the British concept of Women's Guilds, created by Rev Archibald Charteris in 1887 and originally confined to the Church of Scotland. From Canada the organisation spread back to the motherland, throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth, and thence to other countries. Many WIs belong to the Associated Country Women of the World organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Institutes .

The first WI in Britain was founded on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales in 1915. The idea for the WI came from Canada where the movement was formed in 1897 to help connect women in isolated rural areas.

By the outbreak of WW2 in 1939, the WI was a well-established pillar of rural life in Britain, with institutes in more than 5,500 villages. But its National Executive Committee initially struggled to decide whether the WI would be able to help with the war effort at all as they had taken a strong anti-war stance. The WI's Chairman, Lady Denman, realised that the WI's members would want to 'do their bit'. She suggested that the WI might be called upon to help with caring for evacuees and with rural food production.

These predictions proved correct. The WI made a significant contribution on the home front. In September 1939, over 1.5 million children, mothers and babies, elderly and disabled people were evacuated from Britain's major towns and cities to rural areas. As well as the evacuation of these vulnerable groups, many businesses and government departments also moved their staff to the countryside. Members of the WI in reception areas were active in billeting and receiving evacuees and helping to settle them into rural communities. WI members often organised activities such as country walks and tea parties to help keep evacuee children occupied and entertained. Early in 1939, members of the WI had also assisted those planning the Government's evacuation scheme by carrying out a survey of rural homes to find out how many households might be able to take evacuees. In 1941, they also published an influential report on their members' experiences of evacuation.

The National Savings Movement was a British mass savings movement that operated between 1916 and 1978 and was used to finance the deficit of government spending over tax revenues. The movement was instrumental during WW2 in raising funds to support the war effort. A War Savings Campaign was set up by the War Office to support the war effort. Local savings weeks were held which were promoted with posters with titles such as "Lend to Defend the Right to be Free", "Save your way to Victory" and "War Savings are Warships".

In January 1940, R M Kindersley, President of the National Savings Committee asked the WI to help raise the profile of the National Savings Campaign. Each branch was asked to display posters and distribute leaflets and to set up its own National Savings Scheme. Stotfold in Bedfordshire raised £8,190 (the equivalent of £283,000 today) in just two years.

The WI had run markets in rural areas since 1919 and in wartime, with food supplies scarce, these became an ever more valuable addition to rural towns and villages. WI markets sold surplus produce – mainly fruit and vegetables – from WI members, from smallholders and allotment holders. In a report on WI markets, the Ministry of Information concluded that they were 'business-like and practical examples of cooperative rural enterprise'. The WI also assisted the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) distribute and sell pies to agricultural workers as part of the Rural District Pie Scheme.

After the fall of France in June 1940 it was no longer possible for Britain to import food from mainland Europe. This meant a drastic reduction in the availability of onions. The Ministry of Food tried to encourage commercial production in the UK but the first crop failed. People had to try to grow their own. The WI helped by organising the distribution of onion seeds and sets. The Oxfordshire WI harvested 13 tons in 1942. The National Federation of WIs also distributed tomato seeds and seed potatoes in large numbers and sold other seeds to their members at a preferential rate.

Oranges were scarce during the Second World War and, as they were an important source of Vitamin C, when available they were given as a priority to children over adults. But alternative sources of Vitamin C were needed. The WI and other voluntary organisations were asked to collect 500 tons of rosehips. These were used by pharmacists to make rosehip syrup which was very rich in Vitamin C. WI members in Oxfordshire also collected Foxgloves (Belladonna atropa) which were dried to make the drug digitalis, used for patients with heart conditions.

Making jam is probably one of the things that the WI is most famous for. But what is less well known is that during the Second World War, WI members made jam on an epic scale and made a significant contribution to Britain's food supplies. In 1939, realising that much of the fruit from the summer's bumper harvest might be wasted unless it were made into jam, WI's headquarters secured sugar supplies direct from the Ministry of Food. WIs across the country gathered in surplus fruit from gardens and allotments or growing wild. In their first wave of jam making, it is estimated that the WI saved 450 tons of fruit from rotting.

From 1940, the WI's jam making efforts escalated but came under increased supervision from the Ministry of Food. After the introduction of food rationing in January, there were restrictions on how and where jam could be sold. The supplies of sugar needed for jam making were tightly controlled and records had to be kept of all fruit preserved and sold. Preservation centres were set up in villages or near where fruit was harvested.

Some institutes were keen to look for new ways to preserve fruit and other produce and organised professional canning. This was a skill that had to be learnt and practised as faulty cans could explode. In August 1940, the Queen visited a WI canning centre at Hyde Heath in Buckinghamshire. Canning operations received a further boost when the American Federation of Business and Professional Women donated six mobile canning vans to the WI.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-did-the-womens-institute-do-during-the-second-world-war .

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/gallipoli-myths-no-machine-guns-no-australians-the-forgotten-naval-campaign/ .

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