Invasion of Poland (September 1 – October 6, 1939) Battle of the Atlantic (September 3, 1939 – May 8, 1945) Phoney War (September 1939 - May 1940) Winter War (30 November 1939 – 13 March 1940) Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April 9–June 10, 1940) Invasion of the Low Countries and the fall of France (May 10-June 25, 1940) Dunkirk evacuation (May 26-June 4, 1940) Sinking of the Lancastria (July 17, 1940) Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) begins Battle of Britain (September 1940) Sinking of SS City of Benares and end of CORB (September 17, 1940) Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of the Soviet Union, commencing on June 22, 1941) Siege of Leningrad (September 8, 1941 – January 27, 1944) Battle of Moscow (October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942) Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) Fall of Singapore (February 8–15, 1942) Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4–8, 1942) Battle of Midway (June 4–7, 1942) First Battle of El Alamein (July 1–27, 1942) Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943) Dieppe Raid (August 19, 1942) The Laconia Incident (September 12, 1942 - September 24, 1942) Second Battle of El Alamein (October 23-November 5, 1942) Operation Torch (November 8–10, 1942) Battle of Kursk (July 4-August 23, 1943) Allied invasion of Sicily (July 9-August 17, 1943) Allied invasion of Italy (September 3–16, 1943) Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces (Signed on September 3, declared on September 8, 1943) Battle of Monte Cassino (January 17-May 18, 1944) Landings at Anzio (January 22-June 5, 1944) D-day (June 6, 1944) Destruction of Army Group Centre (June 22-August 19, 1944) Invasion of Southern France (August 15, 1944) Gothic Line (August 25-December 17, 1944) Operation Market Garden (September 17–25, 1944) Battle of Hürtgen Forest (September 19, 1944 – February 10, 1945) Battle of Aachen (October 2–21, 1944) Battle of the Scheldt (October 2-November 8, 1944) Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-26, 1944) Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945) Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1940) Battle of Berlin (April 16-May 2, 1945) Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945) Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9, 1945) Victory over Japan Day (August 15, 1945) Surrender of Japan (September 2, 1945)