May 1940 - Operation Babarossa launched
July 1940 - Siege of Leningrad begins
August 1940 - Kiev falls to Wermacht
August 7, 1940 - Operation Wotan launched
September 1940 - Moscow falls. Soviet Union surrenders
September 1940 - Mongolia falls to Imperial Japanese forces
October 1940 - Greece surrenders to Italy
November 1940 - Thomas Dewey elected President of the United States
November 1940 - Xinjiang declares independence
January 1941 - First SS Units enter the Congo
April 1, 1941 - Japan invades Siberia
April 8, 1941 - President Dewey enacts sanctions to cripple Japan's economy
April 1941 - Germany occupies Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan
April 20, 1941 - Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium annexed to the Reich
October 7, 1941 - Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor
October 8, 1941 - United States declares war on Japan
October 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United States
October 11, 1941 - Siam surrenders to Japan
October 25, 1941 - Guam and Wake Island captured by Japan
November 1941 - Malaya falls to Japan
December 1941 - Singapore surrenders to Japan
March 1942 - German forces land in Labrador
April 12, 1942 - Japanese Imperial Navy defeats the US Navy at Battle of Midway annihilating American presence in Pacific
July 8, 1942 - Armistice ends conflict between Russia and Japan
December 7, 1942 - Early stages of Hawaiian invasion by Japan begins
January 1, 1943 - Panama Canal attacked
March 19, 1943 - Battle of Burnsville. American forces abandon Canada
April 1943 - Blitz begins (aerial attack by Luftwaffe on New York City)
May 1943 - National Party under DF Malan wins elections in South Africa
May 1943 - Battle of Troy. Patton and Rommel meet for the first time
June 1943 - Royal Indian Mutiny
July 1943 - Battle of New York
July 8, 1943 - Battle of Cape May. US Northern Atlantic Fleet decimated by Raeder and the Kriegsmarine
August 5, 1943 - First Battle of the Atlantic. Tactical victory of Kriegsmarine over US Atlantic Fleet
August 1943 - Ottawa surrenders to Guderian
August 1943 - Boston surrenders to Rommel
September 21, 1943 - Sichuan Clique allies with Wang Jingwei
October 1943 - Battle of Blue Water Bridge. German drive into Michigan via Canada
October 3, 1943 - Battle of Harrisburg
October 18, 1943 - Battle of Pittsburgh
November 27, 1943 - Chiang Kai-Shek executed by Provisional Government
December 1943 - Hawaii falls to Japan
February 1944 - UK and Japan agree to an armistice ending conflict in Asia
March 1944 - Atlee becomes Prime Minister via Labour victory in UK
April 30, 1944 - Indianapolis surrenders to Guderian
May 14, 1944 - Cincinnati falls to combined forces of Rommel and Guderian
June 6, 1944 - Battle of Charleston, largest amphibious assault in history
July 4, 1944 - Washington DC falls to German forces. President Dewey dies. Secretary of State Dulles made president
August 1944 - Armistice between US and Third Reich
October 31, 1944 - United States signs peace treaty with Germany
March 3, 1945 - Germany detonates first nuclear weapon
April 30, 1945 - Albert Speer made Chancellor of German Reich. Goering declared President
August 15, 1945 - India declared an independent state with Bose as president
February 4, 1949 - Strom Thurmond declares independence of southern states leading to resurrection of Confederacy
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