How War Hos Changed in Two Years
May-June, 1940
May 10.—Germans invade Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg.
May 15.—Holland surrenders to Germany.
May 19.—Brussels and Antwerp taken by Germans.
May 20. —General Weygand displaces Marshal Gamelin as Allied Commander.
May 24.—Germans, wheeling westward through France, capture Boulogne, and approach Calais.
May 28.—Belgian army surrenders to Germany.
May 29—June 4.—Evacuation of British and French armies from Dunkirk to England.
June s.—Whole German army thrown against French on Aisne-Somme front.
June 10.—Norway surrenders to Germany.
June 10.—Italy declares war on Britain and France.
June 14.—Germans enter Paris.
June 16.—Petain, as head of new French Fascist Government, surrenders to Germany—and Britain, alone, faces the Axis Powers.
May-June, 1942
May 10. Japanese naval force smashed by Anglo-American forces in Battle of Coral Sea.
May 11.—Mr. Churchill, two years after assum ing Prime Ministership, said that the war at last had reached a turning point, and the democracies could be of good cheer.
May 13-27.—Russians repel Hitler’s “Spring offensive”, and throw enemy back in strong counter-attacks.
May 31.—1,000 British bombers begin nightly air raids on Germany, on enormous scale.
May 27-June 10.—Germans firmly held and heavily battered in great tank battle in Libya.
June 7-10.—Japanese navy heavily defeated by USA in Battle of Midway Is.
June 11. —Anglo-Russian Alliance announced.