A timeline of the most destructive global conflict in history, from the ferocious attacks Nazi Germany unleashed across Europe, to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2 ...
When efforts to negotiate a withdrawal fail, Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. Germany captures Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis. Exacting revenge for his ...
World War II begins. May: As Germany marches into Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Winston Churchill replaces a disgraced Neville Chamberlain, the man responsible for the appeasement of ...