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'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 

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

45-5-8 VE Day, London > .

23-5-8 1945-5-8 Germany's THREE Surrenders - VE-Day Special > .
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill speech > .

Winston Churchill's War - BBC doc > .
Churchill - tb >> .

VE Day celebrations - IWM > .  

The Fruits Of Victory (1945) - Pathé > .

London celebrates the end of WW2 - VE > .  

VE Day - unknown British colonel who drafted the terms of German surrender > .

Europe set to mark 75 years since defeat of Nazis > .  

Liberation of Paris - 75 years since defeat of Nazis > . 

1945-5-8 VE-Day ..

45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

45-5-8 VE Day - Victory in Europe ..

VE-Day - British Newspapers ..

After his 8 May 1945 radio broadcast the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, spoke twice to the crowds in Whitehall.

May 7, 1945 "God bless you all. This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this. Everyone, man or woman, has done their best. Everyone has tried. Neither the long years, nor the dangers, nor the fierce attacks of the enemy, have in any way weakened the independent resolve of the British nation. God bless you all..."

"My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It's a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. We were all alone for a whole year.

"There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? Were we down-hearted? The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. When shall the reputation and faith of this generation of English men and women fail?

"I say that in the long years to come not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straightforward and die if need be-unconquered.'

"Now we have emerged from one deadly struggle – a terrible foe has been cast on the ground and awaits our judgment and our mercy. But there is another foe who occupies large portions of the British Empire, a foe stained with cruelty and greed – the Japanese. I rejoice we can all take a night off today and another day tomorrow.

"Tomorrow our great Russian allies will also be celebrating victory and after that we must begin the task of rebuilding our health and homes, doing our utmost to make this country a land in which all have a chance, in which all have a duty, and we must turn ourselves to fulfil our duty to our own countrymen, and to our gallant allies of the United States who were so foully and treacherously attacked by Japan.

"We will go hand and hand with them. Even if it is a hard struggle we will not be the ones who will fail."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/winston-churchills-1945-victory-europe-day-speech-full-1500190