28 October: Spain declares war on the United Kingdom; Italy invades Greece

5 November: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to an unprecedented third term

6 November: The Spanish and German allies lay seige to Gibraltar

11 November: Royal Marines occupy the Canary Islands

13 November: The Italian fleet is crippled by a British bomber torpedo raid

14/15 November: Germany bombs Coventry, England

18 November: Hungary joins the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, Italy and Spain)

20 November: Britain launches invasion of Spanish Morocco

23 November: Romania joins the Axis Powers

25 November: Ceuta falls to the British

1 December: Melilla falls to the British

14 December: Beginning of British War in North Africa against the Italians

27/31 December: Massive German air raid on London

29 January: Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians

5 February: After holding out for three months, Gibraltar falls to the German-Spanish alliance

10 February: Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa, just ahead of his famed “Afrika Korps”

17 February: Australian-New Zealand forces launch invasion of Italian Somaliland

8 March: President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

12 March: British troops arrive in Greece

18 March: Spain invades Portugal

27 March: A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-allied government

3 April: Pro-Axis government set up in Iraq

4 April: The Germany invades Greece

14 April: Rommel attacks Tobruk

15 April: Lisbon falls, Portugal surrenders to Spain

19 April: Greece surrenders to Germany

31 June: German attack on Tobruk repulsed

10 May: Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland to negotiate a peace with Britain, he is arrested and held as a POW

23 May: The British Ship Hood is sunk by the Reichsmarine

29 May: The German ship Bismark is sunk by the Royal Navy

1 June: Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq

7 June: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon

14 June: The United States freezes Germany, Spanish and Italian assets in America

18 June: Germany launches a surprise attack on the Soviet Union

22 June: Germans capture Minsk

27 June: Stalin calls for a scorched Earth Policy in the USSR

9 July: Mutual Assistance agreement between Soviet Union and United Kingdom; Germans cross the Dnieper in the Ukraine where they are greeted as liberators.

15 July: British occupy Syria

26 July: The United States suspends Japanese assets in America, suspends relations

31 July: Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.

1 August: United States places Oil Embargo on Axis Powers

14 August: Churchill and Roosevelt announce the Atlantic Charter

17 August: Leningrad comes under seige

2 September: First use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

15 September: Kiev occupied by the Germans

20 September: Several thousand Jews are slaughtered at Kiev

23 September: Germans turn attention toward Moscow

15 October: Germans reach Moscow, Stalin assumes control of the cities defenses

21 November: Germans break through Soviet defenses, Stalin is killed attempting to flee the city, Moscow falls into German hands

22 November: Hitler proclaims victory in the East is near; Soviet leadership split between Andrei Zhdanov, Lavrenty Beria, and Vyacheslav Molotov in the town of Kuybyshev.

26 November: The RAF bombs Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus Region to prevent them from falling to the Nazi's

27 November: Outraged by the bombing of the oil fields, Hitler pressures Turkey to allow German troops access through Anatolia and into Iraq.

1 December: Unhappy with Turkey's unwillingness to aid him in the war, an outraged Hitler ordered the invasion of Anatolia. Germany was now at war with the Republic of Turkey.

7 December: The Red Army launches a counter offensive against the entrenched Germans in Moscow, forcing them to fight in the Russian Winter

9 December: The Naval and Air Forces of the Empire of Japan launch a deadly surprise attack against the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor; Edirne Turkey falls to German troops without a fight

10 December: President Roosevelt requests the United States congress to declare war on Japan and Germany; The United Kingdom declares war on Japan

13 December: Germany and Spain declare war on the United States

19 December: Hitler takes complete control of the German military

23 December: Seige of Istanbul begins

1 January: Declaration of the United Nations signed by 28 allied countries, many of them governments in exile

January: German U-boat offensive along US Eastern coastline

26 January: First American forces arrive in the United Kingdom

14 February: Istanbul falls

April: Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers

26 May: Rommel begins offensive against the Gazala Line

June: Mass murder of the Jews begin in Auschwitz

18 June: Rommel captures Tobruk

22 June: Eisenhower arrives in London

1 July: Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt, battle of El Alamein begins

2 July: Germans take Leningrad and Sevastopol

4 July: Zhdanov is arrested on trumped up charges of treason, he is tried and executed within the week

6 July: Germans begin drive toward Stalingrad

12 July: Turkish capital Ankara is captured by Nazi's, the Turkish government flees to Antioch, then to London

19 July: Axis friendly Turkish government set up in Bursa

31 July: Battle of El Alamein ends with German withdrawal

5 August: General Montgomery takes command of Eight Army in North Africa

14 August: German air raids on Stalingrad begins

17 August: First all-American Air Attack in Europe

1 September: Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.

9 September: Battle of Stalingrad begins, Molotov and Beria appeals to the western allies to open a new front in Europe.

12 September: German and Bursa Turkish troops invade the Levant and Mesopotamia.

28 October: The United States and Canada begin Operation Torch, the invasion of the Axis dominated Iberian Peninsula, British forces are diverted to Lebanon to bolster defenses

31 October: Italians and Germans occupy Vichy France

3 November: Canadian Army scores first major victory in Iberia, capturing the Portuguese capital of Lisbon

11 November: The United States Army defeats Spanish and Germans at the Battle of Granada

17 December: British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.

30 December: Battle of Barents Sea beween German and British Navy