Russia at war 1941-1945

August 23 Russians retake Kharkov.

August 27 Japanese evacuate New Georgia Island.

August 30 Taganrog recaptured.

August 31 Glukhov recaptured.

September 3 Allies invade Italy.

September 8 Russians liberate Donbas.

September 10 Mariupol taken.

September 16 Novorossisk taken.

September 25 Smolensk taken.

September 30 Fifth Army takes Naples.

October 7 Russians clear the Taman Peninsula; Dnieper forced.

October 13 Italy declares war on Germany.

October 14 Zaporozhie recaptured.

October 18 Foreign Ministers' conference opens in Moscow.

October 19 Germans in Italy retire from Volturno river.

October 25 Dnepropetrovsk recaptured.

November 1 Americans land on Bouganville in Solomons.

November 4 Eighth Army takes Isernia.

November 6 Russians recapture Kiev.

November 12 Bridgehead established across the Sangro. Russians take Zhitomir.

November 19 German counter-offensive retakes Zhitomir.

November 20 Americans land on Tarawa and Makin Islands.

November 28 Teheran conference begins.

December 7 Fifth Army take Monte Camino.

December 26 Scharnhorst sunk.

1944

January 4 Fifth Army launches attack east of Cassino.

January 27 Leningrad completely relieved.

January 15 Americans complete reconquest of Solomon Islands.

February 17 German rout in Korsun salient in central Ukraine.

February 22 Krivoi Rog taken.

March 4 Russian spring offensive opens in Ukraine.

March 12 Uman recaptured.

March 19 Russians force the Dniester.

April 2 Russians enter Rumania.

April 11 Liberation of Crimea begins.

April 15 Tarnopol liberated.

April 22 Allies land at Hollandia, New Guinea.

May 9 Sebastopol taken.

May 12 Allies in Italy assault the Gustav Line.

May 13 Crimea cleared of Germans.

May 18 Cassino taken.

May 23 Anzio break-out.

June 4 Fifth Army enters Rome.

June 6 Allies invade Normandy.

June 10 Russians begin offensive against Finland.

June 13 First V1 bomb on London.

June 15 First Super-Fortress raid on Japan.

June 19 Americans take Saipan.

June 20 Viborg taken by Russians.

June 23 Russians begin offensive in Belorussia.

June 23-28 Germans encircled at Vitebsk and Bobruisk.

June 27 Cherbourg captured.

July 3 Russians take Minsk. About 100,000 Germans captured.

July 6 Russians take Kovel.

July 9 Caen captured.

July 13 Vilno captured.

July 18 Rokossovsky's troops enter Poland. Pskov liberated.

July 20 Attempt to assasinate Hitler.

July 23 Lublin taken.

July 25 Americans break through at St. Lo.

July 28 Brest Litovsk taken.

July 31 Russians reach outskirts of Praga, opposite Warsaw. Avranches entered.

August 1 Beginning of Warsaw Rising.

August 11 Eighth Army reaches Florence.

August 15 Allies land in south of France.

August 16 Americans near Chartres and Dreux.

August 20 Russians begin offensive in Bessarabia and Rumania.

August 23 King Michael of Rumania interns Antonescu and forms new "peace

Government.

August 25 Paris liberated.

August 26 Eighth Army opens attack in Adriatic sector.

August 30 Russians enter Bucharest and Ploesti.

September 3 British reach Brussels. Americans reach Mons.

September 4 Antwerp liberated. Cease-fire on Finnish Front.

September 5 Russians declare war on Bulgaria.

September 8 First V2 lands in Britain.

September 9 Russians invade Bulgaria.

September 10 Russians capture Praga.

September 11 Americans cross German frontier near Trier.

September 12 Rumanian armistice signed.

September 17 Arnhem battle begins.

September 19 Finnish armistice signed.

September 28 Calais liberated.

September 29 Russians enter Yugoslavia.

October 2 Surrender of underground forces in Warsaw.

October 9 Churchill arrives in Moscow.

October 19 Americans land in Philippines.

October 20 Russians and Yugoslavs enter Belgrade.

November 1 British land on Walcheren Island.

November 12 Tirpitz sunk.

November 24 Strasbourg captured.

December 2 De Gaulle arrives in Moscow.

December 5 Allies take Ravenna

December 16 German offensive in the Ardennes begins.

December 18 North Burma cleared of Japanese.

December 27 Russians surround Budapest.

1945

January 3 Americans counter-attack Ardennes salient.

January 12 Great Russian offensive begins in Poland.

January 17 Russians take Warsaw.

January 19 Cracow captured.

January 20 Tilsit captured. Hungarian "Debrecen" Government signs armistice, January 23 Russians reach the Oder.

January 29 Russians encircle Poznan.

February 3 Allies capture Colmar.

February 4 Yalta conference opens.

February 5 Americans enter Manila. British and Canadians open offensive to reach the Rhine.

February 9 Königsberg almost surrounded.

February 10 Elbing captured.

February 13 Budapest falls.

February 19 Americans land on Iwojima.

February 23 Poznan taken.

March 7 Cologne captured.

March 13 Allies command west bank of Rhine.

March 23 Rhine crossed.

March 29 Russians cross Austrian frontier.

March 30 Danzig captured.

April 1 Americans invade Okinawa.

April 5 Osnabrück captured.

April 9 Königsberg surrenders.

April 9 Allies begin final offensive in Italy.

April 10 Hanover captured.

April 12 Death of President Roosevelt. Eighth Army cross the Santorno.

April 13 Russians take Vienna.

April 16 Final Russian Berlin offensive starts.