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Polish Invasion
Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and this would start the war with the rest of the world seeing this as the final straw, and would lead, Britain, and France, along with the commonwealth back to war. -
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WWII
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Britain Declares War
On the 3rd of September 1939 Britain would declare war on Germany after the German invasion of Poland. -
BlitzKrieg
This is when Germany would finally finish their invasion of Southern Poland, since Russia had control of the North, Germany would use a new strategy named Blitzkrieg for its speed, and effectiveness. -
Invasion of Norway and Denmark
One the 9 April 1940 Germany would use blitzkrieg tactics to invade both Norway and Denmark, this was done in order to get Iron ore supplies. -
Churchill becomes PM
He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955. -
Germany invades France, Netherlands, and Belgium
Germany would continue these Blitzkrieg strategies, now expanding into the Netherlands, then attacking the first majour hitter of the Allies, France. -
Vichy's France
This was the uprising, and fascist regime that French rebels who were supporting Hitler took up, before becoming the government of France in the German occupation. -
Battle of Britain
This is when Hitler would launch a land, sea, and air invasion of Britain, the battle of Britain was the start of the air battles for Britain. -
Invasion of Britain
The Battle of Britain took place between July and October 1940. The Germans began by attacking coastal targets and British shipping operating in the English Channel. They launched their main offensive on 13 August. Attacks moved inland, concentrating on airfields and communications centres. -
Operation Sea Lion
A large number of river barges and transport ships were gathered together on the Channel coast, but with Luftwaffe aircraft losses increasing in the Battle of Britain and no sign that the Royal Air Force had been defeated, Hitler postponed Sea Lion indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and it was never put into action. -
Battles in North Africa
November 7: Battle of Marsa Matruh.
November 9: Battle of Sidi Barrani.
November 9: Third Battle of Halfaya Pass.
November 13:Battle of Agedabia.
November 13: Third Battle of Torbuk.
November 17 - Nov. 26: Battle of Djebel Abiod.
November 20: Second Battle of Benghazi.
December 12: Second Battle of the Coast Road. -
Germany invades Russia
Hitler had always wanted to see Germany expand eastwards to gain Lebensraum or 'living space' for its people. After the fall of France Hitler ordered plans to be drawn up for an invasion of the Soviet Union. He intended to destroy what he saw as Stalin's 'Jewish Bolshevist' regime and establish Nazi hegemony. -
Russia Allies with Britain
After the attempted German invasion the USSR joins the allies and fights against the Germans -
Operation Barbarossa
On 18 December 1940 Hitler issued Führer Directive 21, an order for the invasion of the Soviet Union. The German military plan called for an advance up to a hypothetical line running from the port of Archangel in northern Russia to the port of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea – the so-called 'A-A line'. This would bring the bulk of the Soviet population and its economic potential under German control. -
Germany Pushes Allies, back to Egypt
November 7: Battle of Marsa Matruh.
November 9: Battle of Sidi Barrani.
November 9: Third Battle of Halfaya Pass.
November 13:Battle of Agedabia.
November 13: Third Battle of Torbuk.
November 17 - Nov. 26: Battle of Djebel Abiod.
November 20: Second Battle of Benghazi.
December 12: Second Battle of the Coast Road. -
Yugoslavia invasion
After the Italian government surrendered to the Allies in September 1943, the rapid Allied occupation of southern Italy liberated these Jews. After the Italian surrender, the Germans occupied the Italian zone of Yugoslavia. -
Hitler Death
The day Adolf Hitler Killed himself -
Germany is defeated / Surrenders
Germany lost the war and surrendered on the 2nd of September 1945, just after the 6th anniversary of the start of WWII