Sep 1st: The Invastion of Poland begins with the German Luftwaffe attacking several targets in Poland. The Luftwaffe launcher air attacks against Krakow, Lodz and Warsaw.

Sep 1st: Norway, Switzerland and Finland declare their neutrality.

Sep 2nd: The United Kingdom and France issue a join ultimatum to Germany, requiring German troops to evacuate Polish territory; Mussolini decleares Italian neutrality; Ireland also declares neutrality; the Swiss goverment oders a general mobilization of its forces.

Sep 2nd: The Free City of Danzig is annexed by Germany.

Sep 3rd: Within hours of the British declaretion of War, SS Atenia, a British cruise ship en-route from Glasgow to Montreal is torpedoed by U-30 250 miles Northwest of Ireland. 112 passengers and crew are killed.

Sep 4th: Japan announces its neutrality in the European situation. The United States makes a similar declaration the next day. Sep 6th: South Africa declares war on Germany.

Sep 6th:  Battle of Barking Creek (a friendly fire incident resulting in the first RAF fighter pilot fatalities of the War) Sep 7th: France begins a token offensive, moving into German territory near Saarbrücken.Sep 8th: The British Government announce the re-introduction of the convoy system for merchant ships and a full-scale blockade on German shipping.Sep 10th: Canada declares war on Germany.Sep 17th: The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east, occupying the territory east of the Curzon line as well as Białystok and Eastern Galicia. Sep 18th: Polish President Ignacy Moscicki and Commander-in-Chief Edward Rydz-Smigly leave Poland for Romania, where they are both interned; Russian forces reach Vilna and Brest-Litovsk. Polish submarine escapes from Tallinn – Estonia‘s neutrality is questioned by the Soviet Union and Germany.

Sep 19th: The German and Soviet armies link up near Brest Litovsk.Sep

24th: Soviet air force violating Estonian airspace. The Estonians negotiate with Molotov in Moscow. Molotov warns the Estonians that if the Soviet Union doesn’t get military bases in Estonia, it is forced to use “more radical actions”.

Sep 25th: German home front measures begin with food rationing.

Sep 25th: Soviet air activity in Estonia. Soviet troops along the Estonian border include 600 tanks and 600 airplanes and 160 000 men.

Sep 26th: Following a massive artillery bombardment, the Germans launch a major infantry assault on the centre of Warsaw.

Sep 27th: In the first offensive operations by the German Army in Western Europe, guns on the Siegfried Line open up on villages behind French Maginot line.

Sep 28th: The remaining army and militia in the centre of Warsaw capitulate to the Germans.

Sep 28th: Soviet troops by the Latvian border. Latvian air space violated.Big thanks to

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Introduction to World War 2.

World war II was a global military conflict. It initially started with two seperate conflicts. The first one began in Asai in 1937 and the other one begain in Europe with the Germans invading Poland. This global confict split the majority of the world’s nation into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. Spanning much of the globe, World War two resulted in the death of over 60 million people, makin it the dealiest conflict in human history.

World War II involved the mobilization of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in history. The war placed the participants in a state of “total war”, erasing the distinction between civil and military resources. This resulted in the complete activation of a nation’s economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the war effort; nearly two-thirds of those killed in the war were civilians. Nearly 11 million of these civilian casualties were victims of the Holocaust—which was conducted by Nazi Germany—largely in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The financial cost of the war is estimated at about a trillion 1944 U.S. dollars worldwide, making it the most expensive war in capital as well as lives.

The Allies were victorious, and, as a result, the United States and Soviet Union emerged as the world’s two leading superpowers. This set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in hopes of preventing another such conflict. The self determination spawned by the war gave rise to decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, while Europe itself began moving toward integration.