Jan 6, 1944 – Soviet troops advance into Poland.
Jan 17, 1944 – First attack toward Cassino, Italy.
Jan 22, 1944 – Allies land at Anzio.
Jan 27, 1944 – Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege.
Feb 15-18 – Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.
Feb 16, 1944 – Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
March 4, 1944 – Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
March 15, 1944 – Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.
March 18, 1944 – British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
April 8, 1944 – Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
May 9, 1944 – Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.
May 11, 1944 – Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
May 12, 1944 – Germans surrender in the Crimea.
May 15, 1944 – Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
May 25, 1944 – Germans retreat from Anzio.
June 5, 1944 – Allies enter Rome.
June 6, 1944 – D-Day landingen, Operatie Overlord
June 9, 1944 – Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.
June 10, 1944 – Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane? in France.
June 13, 1944 – First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
June 22, 1944 – Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive).
June 27, 1944 – U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg.
July 3, 1944 – ‘Battle of the Hedgerows’ in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
July 9, 1944 – British and Canadian troops capture Caen.
July 18, 1944 – U.S. troops reach St. Lô.
July 20, 1944 – German assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
July 24, 1944 – Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
July 25-30 – Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô).
July 28, 1944 – Soviet troops take Brest-Litovsk?. U.S. troops take Coutances.
Aug 1, 1944 – Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.
Aug 4, 1944 – Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
Aug 7, 1944 – Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.
Aug 15, 1944 – Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).
Aug 19, 1944 – Resistance uprising in Paris.
Aug 19/20 – Soviet offensive in the Balkans begins with an attack on Romania.
Aug 20, 1944 – Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket.
Aug 25, 1944 – Liberation of Paris.
Aug 29, 1944 – Slovak uprising begins.
Aug 31, 1944 – Soviet troops take Bucharest.
Sept 1-4 – Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.
Sept 4, 1944 – Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.
Sept 13, 1944 – U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line.
Sept 17, 1944 – Operation Market Garden begins (Allied airborne assault on Holland).
Sept 26, 1944 – Soviet troops occupy Estonia.
Oct 2, 1944 – Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
Oct 10-29 – Soviet troops capture Riga.
Oct 14, 1944 – Allies liberate Athens; Rommel commits suicide.
Oct 21, 1944 – Massive German surrender at Aachen.
Oct 30, 1944 – Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Nov 20, 1944 – French troops drive through the ‘Beffort Gap’ to reach the Rhine.
Nov 24, 1944 – French capture Strasbourg.
Dec 4, 1944 – Civil War in Greece; Athens placed under martial law.
Dec 16-27 – Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
Dec 17, 1944 – Waffen SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy.
Dec 26, 1944 – Patton relieves Bastogne.
Dec 27, 1944 – Soviet troops besiege Budapest.
