key events WWII

By ken123

  • germany invaded poland

  • allied forces declare war on Germany

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany invades Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg

  • Germany begins invasion on France

  • German forces move south towards Paris

  • Italy declares war on france and Great Britan

  • German troops enter Paris

  • France surenders to Germany

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    Air war between Germany and Britain

  • japanese start occupying bases in Indo-China

  • Italian Navy defeated

  • British Royal Navy gains control of the Mediterranean

  • germany invades USSR; USSR joins the Allies in the war against Germany

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

    USA declares war on Japan and joines Allied war efforts.

  • Australia declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy delcare war on USA

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    Air war continues acrosse Europe

  • Singapore surrenders to japan

    22 000 (aprox.) Australians become POW's

  • Japanese aircraft bomb Darwin, NT

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    Allies began large-scale air attacks on Germany

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    Battel of the coral sea

  • Japanese midget submarines attack Sydeny Harbour

  • Japanese decide to take Port Moresby by land invasion

    Via the Kokoda trail

  • australians defeat japanese at miline bay

  • japanese begine their ratreate along the kokoda track

  • Australians recapture kokoda

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    Australian POW's forced to construct the Burma

    thialand railway
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    Germany suffer significant defaet in Russia

    Battale of Starlingard

  • italy declares war on germany

  • Italy surenders to allies