European Theatre
March 11: Lend-Lease Bill passed, allowing Roosevelt to provide aid to Britian and other Allied nations
March 28: British fleet dominates Italian Navy, gaining superiority in the Mediterranean
March 30: Afrika Korps launches counteroffensive in North Africa
April 6: Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
April 14: Rommel attacks Tobruk
April 18: Yugoslav forces surrender, but guerilla resistance continues in force
May 10: Deputy Fuhrer Rudolph Hess parachutes into Scotland on a personal "peace mission". He is immediately put into a POW camp.
May 24: British flagship Hood sunk by the German battleship Bismark
May 27: Bismark sunk by British Navy, a Polish vessel is the first to engage her
June 14: Roosevelt freezes all Axis assets in the US.
State
Department orders the closing of all German consular offices
June 22: Germany attacks the Soviet Union on a 1,000 mile front
August 14: Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill
September 8: Germans encircle Leningrad, beginning a 900 day siege of the city
September 19: Germans occupy Kiev
November 18: Britsh begin desert offensive in Libya
December 7: Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese
December 8: US declares war on Japan
December 11: Germany and Italy declare war on United States
June 21: Rommel captures Tobruk
June 25: Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
July 1: Sevastopol falls to Germans
August 19: British/Canadian commandos raid Dieppe, suffering heavy losses
August 31: British defeat Afrika Korps at the Battle of Alam Halfa
November 5: Rommel, beaten at Alamein, retreats to Tunisia
November 13: British retake Tobruk
November 19: Battle of Stalingrad marks beginning of Soviet counteroffensive
January 14 - January 24: Roosevelt and Churchill hold Casablanca Conference
January 30: RAF makes first daylight raid on Berlin
February 2: Germans surrender at Stalingrad
May 12: Allies achieve victory in North Africa
July 9: Allies invade Sicily
July 25: Mussolini resigns as Italian premier, Badoglio is his replacement
August 1: Ploesti oil fields bombed by USAAF
August 17: Conquest of Sicily completed
September 3: Allies invade Italian mainland
September 8: Italians surrender to Allies. Germans carry on fight, putting up fierce resistance
September 10: Germans capture Rome
October 1: Allies capture Naples
October 13: Italy declares war on Germany
November 6: Soviets liberate Kiev
November 28 - December 1: "Big Three" meet at Teheran
December 24: Eisenhower appointed SCAEFE (Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force - Europe)
January 22: Allies land at Anzio behind German lines
February 2: Soviets enter Estonia, Latvia
March 20: Nazis invade Hungary to meet threat in Balkans
May 9: Soviets liberate Sevastopol
May 23: Allies begin offensive from the Anzio beachhead
June 4: Allies take Rome
June 6: Operation Overlord - Invasion of "Fortress Europe" - D-Day
June 13: First operational use of the V-1 rocket by Germans against England
June 27: Germans abandon Cherbourg
July 11: Soviets enter Latvia and Lithuania
July 18: British Second Army breaks German lines at Caen, France
July 20: Attempt on Hitler's life results only in slight injury
July 26: Americans break through German lines near St. Lo, France
August 11: Germans abandon Florence, Allies close in
August 15: Allies invade Southern France
August 21: US troops close in on Paris
August 23: Rumania surrenders to Soviets; joins Allies
August 25: Paris liberated
September 3: British liberate Brussels
September 4: Finland and Russia sign armistice
September 8: First German V-2 rockets land on London
September 17: Allied airborne troops land deep inside the Netherlands, marking the beginning of Operation Market-Garden (which would become the last German victory of the war)
October 3: After two months of fighting, the Warsaw Uprising is quelched, leaving over 90% of Warsaw in ruin
November 7: Roosevelt elected to fourth term as President
December 16: Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge) undertaken by Germans
December 26: US forces at Bastogne relieved by Allied spearhead, effectively ending the Ardennes Offensive
January 17: Soviets capture Warsaw
February 4 - February 11: "Big Three" meet at Yalta; plan occupation of Germany, etc.
March 4: Finland declares war on Germany
March 7: US First Army crosses the Rhine at Remagen
Cologne
falls to the Allies
April 12: Roosevelt dies, succeeded by Harry S Truman
April 13: Vienna falls to the Red Army
April 16: Soviets begin final push to Berlin
April 25: "East Meets West" between US and Soviets at Torgau
April 28: Mussolini killed
April 30: Hitler commits suicide
Soviet
flag raised over Berlin
33,000
prisoners freed from the Dachau death camp
May 2: Berlin falls to Soviets
German
troops in Northern Italy surrender
May 7: Germany surrenders unconditionally to Allies
May 8: V-E day celebrated by Allied nations
June 5: Four Powers (US, Russia, Britain, France) assume supreme power in Germany
June 26: UN established
August 2: Pottsdam Accords signed and made public