SECOND WORLD WAR

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  • The war started

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

  • Period: to

    Nazis invade

    Denmark, Norway,France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  • Germans bomb Paris

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.

    An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States

  • Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.

  • Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.

  • First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Hitler takes complete control of the German Army.

  • Treblinka extermination camp opened

  • Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.

  • Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls.

  • Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails

  • Operation Cobra

    U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • United Nations is born.

  • The war ends