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Birthdate and Birthdate of Adolf Hitler
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was the peace treaty that was created as a result of the six-month-long Paris Peace Conference of 1919[?] which put an official end to World War I -
Hitler starts the Nazi Party
the leader of the Nazi Party -
Italy took control of Abyssinia
Italy took control of all of the Ayssinia and in November joined Germaany in an agreement known as the rome-Berlin Axis. -
Japanese Forces
Japanese forces invaded east China. Japan also took advantage of the weakness of the powers who were involved in war in Europe. -
France, Britain and Italy meet Hitler
The Leaders of France, Britain and Italy met with Hitler in Munich. -
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Rationing in the UK
During World War II all sorts of essential and non-essential foods were rationed, as well as clothing, furniture and petrol. -
WW2 Began
world war two broke out on the 1st of september 1939. -
The Battle Of The Britain
In the summer and autumn of 1940, a battle for national survival was waged in the skies over Britain. -
Chruchill becomes PM of England
Friday 10 May 1940 was one of the most dramatic days in British history. The government was in disarray as Winston Churchill became PM and, on the continent, Germany ended the Phoney War by invading the Low Countries. -
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Operation Barbarossa vasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.
Operation Barbarossa was the German codename for the invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II. -
Blitzberg
Blitzkrieg was first used by the Germans in World War Two and was a tactic based on speed and surprise and needed a military force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry (foot soldiers). -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbour
December seventh, 1941: the surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. -
Singapore falls into the Japanese
Singapore, the "Gibraltar of the East" and a strategic British stronghold, falls to Japanese forces. -
Mass Murder at Auschwitz
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Battle Of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. -
Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya
On this day in 1942, General Erwin Rommel turns his assault on the British-Allied garrison at Tobruk, Libya, into victory, as his panzer division occupies the North African port. -
Germany suffers setbacks in stalingrad
The battle of stalingrad took place bwteen July 17, 1942 and feburary 2, 1943. during the second world war, stalingrad was known as tsaritsyn until 1925 and has been known as volgograd since 1961. -
Germany surrenders at Stalingrad
On this day, the last of the German forces fighting at Stalingrad surrender, despite Hitler's earlier declaration that "Surrender is out of the question. The troops will defend themselves to the last!" -
Italy Surrenders
Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies, General Dwight D Eisenhower has announced. -
D-Day, the Normandy Invasion
Operation OVERLORD, the invasion of Normandy, is considered the decisive battle of the war in Western Europe. Before this battle the German Army still firmly occupied France and the Low Countries, the Nazi government still had access to the raw materials and industrial capacity of Western Europe, and local resistance to Nazi rule was disorganized and not very effective. After the successful invasion of France and the expansion of the initial beachheads, the Allied armies moved over to the offens -
Paris Liberated
After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.