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German Anschluss with Austria
Hitler went ahead with his plans to unify all German-speaking people -
Treaty of Munich
Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia -
Start Of World War 2
Hitler invated Poland. -
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start to finish of WWll
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Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his blitzkrieg aka lightning war against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied. -
Chamberlain resigns
Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labour members for a more active prosecution of the war and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government. -
WWII : Dunkirk
A major part of the German Invation of France. -
Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire, to be taken off the beaches. -
Italy enter war on side of Axis powers
Italy entered the war on the side of the Axis powers -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia. -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
Britain and the United States declared war on Japan -
Japanese take Singapore
The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners -
Kakoda
Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of then New Guinea and unexpectedly began to march over the Owen Stanley Ranges with the intent of capturing Port Moresby. -
D-Day
The allies launched an attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France. -
German forces surrender
German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Japanese surrender
The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
