Free Ivan’s War by Catherine Merridale Page B

declare war on Germany
    17 September: Red Army enters Poland from the east
    28 September: German troops capture Warsaw
    30 November: Russians invade Finland
    14 December: Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
    1940
    11 February: Soviet attack on the cd
    3 March: Red Army captures Vyborg (Viipuri)
    12 March: Finland signs peace treaty with USSR, ceding the Karelian isthmus and the shores of Lake Ladoga
    10 May: Germans invade Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg
    29 May: Beginning of British evacuation from Dunkirk (to 3 June)
    14 June: Germans enter Paris
    17–23 June: Russians occupy Baltic states
    22 June: France signs armistice with Germany
    11–18 August: Peak of the Battle of Britain
    7 September: First blitz over London
    9 December: 8th Army begins offensive in north Africa
    1941
    22 June: Germany invades the Soviet Union; Finland attacks Soviet Karelia
    27 June: Romania declares war on Russia
    28 June: Germans capture Minsk
    3 July: Stalin’s first wartime broadcast to the Soviet people
    16 July: Germans reach Smolensk
    25 July: Germans capture Tallinn
    30 August: Mga, the last rail link to Leningrad, is captured by the Germans
    17 September: Encirclement of Soviet troops near Kiev
    30 September: Beginning of the Battle of Moscow

    2 October: Germans capture Orel
    12 October: Germans capture Kaluga
    13 October: Germans capture Kalinin (Tver)
    16 October: Height of the ‘Moscow panic’
    20 October: State of siege declared in Moscow
    30 October: Siege of Sevastopol begins in the Crimea
    3 November: Germans capture Kursk
    22 November: Germans break into Klin
    26 November: Germans capture Istra
    6 December: Soviet counter-offensive begins near Moscow
    7 December: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and raid British Malaya
    8 December: USA and Britain declare war on Japan
    15 December: Soviets recapture Klin and Istra
    25 December: Russians begin to establish bridgehead in eastern Crimea
    30 December: Soviets recapture Kaluga
    1942
    15 February: Singapore falls to Japanese
    8 May: Germans attack in eastern Crimea
    12 May: Unsuccessful Soviet offensive opened near Kharkov
    20 May: Germans retake the Kerch peninsula
    3 July: Fall of Sevastopol
    30 July: Stalin’s order no. 227, ‘Not a Step Back.’
    23 August: 40,000 killed in air raid on Stalingrad
    13 September: Launch of German offensive to take Stalingrad
    23 October: Beginning of Battle of El Alamein
    19 November: Launch of Soviet counter-offensive near Stalingrad
    1943
    31 January: Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad
    2 February: Final German surrender at Stalingrad
    8 February: Soviets recapture Kursk
    14 February: Soviets take Rostov
    16 February: Soviets take Kharkov
    15 March: Germans recapture Kharkov
    5 July: Beginning of German offensive at Kursk
    12 July: Soviet counter-offensive launched near Kursk
    5 August: Russians take Orel and Belgorod
    23 August: Soviets capture Kharkov
    3 September: Allies invade Italy
    25 September: Smolensk recaptured by Red Army
    6 November: Soviets recapture Kiev
    1944
    27 January: Final relief of Leningrad
    2 April: Soviets enter Romania
    9 May: Liberation of Sevastopol
    13 May: Final defeat of Germans in the Crimea

    18 May: NKVD troops round up Crimean Tatars, who are exiled to central Asia
    6 June: Allies invade Normandy
    22 June: Launch of Operation Bagration in Belorussia
    3 July: Soviets recapture Minsk and take about 100,000 German prisoners
    18 July: Red Army troops under Rokossovsky enter Poland
    1 August: Beginning of Warsaw Rising
    25 August: Liberation of Paris
    2 October: Surrender of Polish nationalist forces in Warsaw
    1945
    17 January: Soviet troops take the ruined city of Warsaw
    4 February: Beginning of Yalta conference
    13 February: Budapest falls to Soviets
    9 April: Surrender of Koenigsberg to Soviets
    13 April: Russians take Vienna
    16 April: Launch of final offensive for Berlin
    23 April: Russians reach Berlin
    30 April: Hitler and his closest aides commit suicide
    2 May: Berlin surrenders to Russians
    8 May: