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Anti-Semitism
The Nazi's gained popularity by starting an anti-Jewish Propaganda. Hitler made a book and millions of people bought it and the main purpose of the book was to tell the people about the removal of Jewish people. -
Signing of the Munich Pact
The Munich Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. This pact gave Germany permission to have Sudetenland but after having control of Sudetenland Germany shall take no more land. -
Australia At War
On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced that Australia was now involved in war with Germany. -
The Royal Australian Navy's Entry
In 1940 The Royal Australian Navy was used for the first time in WWII against the Italians. -
Libya and The Seige Of Tobruk
In 1941, Australians fought in land and air campaigns in Egypt and Libya in North Africa. Three AIF divisions - the 6th, 7th and 9th - fought in those countries. -
Operation Mercury
Allied flak teams destroy as many as 50% of the invading German transport planes in the first few hours of the operation. -
Allies inercept German invasion
Allied codebreakers intercept word of the impending German invasion of Crete. -
Allied forces recieve new leader
Allied forces based on Crete receive a new leader in the form of Major-General Bernard Freyberg. -
RAF Frighters Relocated
In advance of the Crete invasion, RAF fighters are relocated to Egypt for safe-keeping. -
Surrender of Germany
On the 7th of May 1945 Germany signed a surrender form. This lead to the end of World War 2 -
Bombing of Nagasaki
After the first atomic bomb, in Hiroshima, another bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. This atomic bomb killed 40,000 people.