1939-1945 (World War II Draw)

September
On 1 September, Germany invades Poland. United Kingdom and France declare war on Germany but take no military actions. Wehrmacht encircles Greater Poland. Simultaneusly, two tank corps rush towrds Warsaw. The battle for Warsaw begins on 9 September. Lodz and Danzig fall. Warsaw is captured on 16 September. On 19 September Germans capture Cracow. Poland surrenders. Last Polish unit is defeated on 25 September.

November
Allies begin bombing Germany. First bombs fall on Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Frankfurt am Main. Allied casualities are high and bombing raids end. Germany begins to bomb Maginot defences, Reims, Verdun and Paris.

October
Air battles continue. The Royal Navy engages naval bombers and German submarines and sunks several of them.

November
Phoney war continues. Germany reorganises troops on its western border.

December
On 5 December, Soviet Union declares war on Finland. Finnish troops advance significantly, going as far as outskirts of Leningrad and taking parts of Karelo-Finnish SSR. Soviet troos counterattack and push Finns back to Mannerheim line.

January
Soviet troops break through Mannerheim line and take Vyborg. With Helsinki threatened, Finland sues for peace and cedes Karelia, Sulla and port of Hanko to USSR.

February
German submarine warfare expands. Number of British trade vessls are sunk.

March
Invasion of Denmark is planned.

April
On 9 April Germany invades Denmark. Danish troops are quickly defeated and Copenhagen falls on 20 April. British troops occupy Faroe Islands and Iceland.

May
On June 12 German troops begin invasion of Benelux. Germa tank corps attacks Netherlands, rushing to Amsterdam. Simultaneously, German troops attack Belgium and Luxemburg in attempt to encircle the Maginot line. Luxemburg, Belgium and Netherlands capitulate respectively on 16, 17 and 20 May. German army launches and attack towards Paris

June
Maginot line is encircled and bombed and its defenders surrender. German tanks attack Paris and infantry attacks the Channel coast. Italians join the war on the German side. Paris falls and France surrenders on 18 June. French fleet is sunk by the British. France is partitioned between German and Italian occupation zone and puppet Vichy France. Baltics state become Soviet Socialist Republics and join the USSR. Romania is forced to return Bessarabia and Bukovina to USSR.

July
British naval bases, airports and cities are bombed by Germans in so called Battle of Britain. Germany lacks the capability to invade UK, though.

August
Italy demands Greece to become a puppet state. Greek government refuses. Italians declare war and attack Greece. They are unable to break through Greek resistance. Italians launch an invasion of Britsh-allied Egypt. Italian Addis Abeba surrenders to British troops. Germany forces Romania to give Northern Transylvania to Hungary and Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria.

September
Italian troops break through Greek defensive lines but their offensive is stopped. Italian troops near Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. British troops in Egypt are defated in El-Alamein. Bulgaria joins the Axis and invades Greece. Greek forces are defated and Athens fall. Greek army still hols Crete and Peloponese.

October
German paratroopers take Crete. On 18 October Greece surrenders. Italian troops reach the Suez canal but lack the supplies to attack Levant. Italian marines attack and conquer Cyprus.

December
General Franco wins the Spanish Civil war and join Axis. German and Spanish troops invade Gibraltar. Having lost naval superiority over Mediterranean, The Royal Navy leaves Malta. Malta is annexed into Italy. Italian troops cross the Suez Canal into Levant.