Events Happening in the World at the Time

#1

May 10, 1940

Nazis invade France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

#2

Jun 3, 1940

Germans bomb Paris. Norway surrenders to the Nazis, Italy declares war on the French and British.

#3

Jul 10, 1940

Battle of Britain begins. Italians occupy British land in Africa.

#4

Sep 13, 1940

Italians invade Egypt. A couple of years later, they invade Greece. Around the same time after they invade, Germans bomb England.

#5

Jan 20, 1942

Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Paris, to the east (mainly to Auschwitz). etc...