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World War II 16 July 1945: Allied leaders gather at Potsdam Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin discuss the fate of a defeated Germany. 15 April 1945: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen British troops enter the concentration camp after negotiating a truce with the German commandant. 17 December 1942: Britain condemns massacre of Jews Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden condemns the persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe. 8 May 1945: Rejoicing at end of war in Europe The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, officially announces the end of the war with Germany World War II 01 Sep 1939: Germany invades Poland 03 Sep 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany 10 May 1940: Churchill takes helm as Germans advance 04 Jun 1940: Dunkirk rescue is over - Churchill defiant 14 Jun 1940: German troops enter Paris 10 Jul 1940: Luftwaffe launches Battle of Britain 07 Sep 1940: London blitzed by German bombers 15 Sep 1940: Victory for RAF in Battle of Britain 15 Nov 1940: Germans bomb Coventry to destruction 22 Jun 1941: Hitler invades the Soviet Union 14 Aug 1941: Secret meetings seal US-Britain alliance 07 Dec 1941: Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor 11 Dec 1941: Germany and Italy declare war on US 15 Feb 1942: Singapore forced to surrender 15 Apr 1942: Malta gets George Cross for bravery 07 Jun 1942: Japanese beaten in Battle of Midway 19 Aug 1942: Allies launch daring raid on Dieppe 04 Nov 1942: Rommel goes on the run at El Alamein 01 Dec 1942: Beveridge lays welfare foundations 02 Feb 1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad 16 May 1943: Germans crush Jewish uprising 17 May 1943: RAF raid smashes German dams 10 Jul 1943: Western Allies invade Sicily 25 Jul 1943: Italian dictator Mussolini quits 03 Sep 1943: Allied troops invade mainland Italy 08 Sep 1943: Italy's surrender announced 01 Dec 1943: Allies united after Tehran conference 27 Jan 1944: Leningrad siege ends after 900 days 18 May 1944: Monte Cassino falls to the Allies 05 Jun 1944: Celebrations as Rome is liberated 20 Jul 1944: Hitler survives assassination attempt 01 Aug 1944: Uprising to free Warsaw begins 25 Aug 1944: Paris is liberated as Germans surrender 17 Sep 1944: Airborne invasion of Holland begins 26 Sep 1944: Airborne troops retreat from Arnhem 03 Oct 1944: Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising 17 Dec 1944: Germany counter-attacks in Ardennes 27 Jan 1945: Auschwitz death camp liberated 07 Feb 1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany 14 Feb 1945: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden 23 Feb 1945: US flag raised over Iwo Jima 21 Apr 1945: Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin 27 Apr 1945: Russians and Americans link at Elbe 28 Apr 1945: Italian partisans kill Mussolini 01 May 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead 07 May 1945: Germany signs unconditional surrender 21 Jun 1945: US troops take Okinawa 26 Jul 1945: Churchill loses general election 06 Aug 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima 09 Aug 1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki 15 Aug 1945: Allied nations celebrate VJ Day 02 Sep 1945: Japan signs unconditional surrender 24 Oct 1945: United Nations Organisation is born 20 Nov 1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins

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