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Invading norway
It took germany 2 months to capure norway. occupied by German troops. At the same time, a single parachute battalion, with tanks and infantry going in at the same time, cause this quick victory -
invading Denmark
The purpose was mainly to secure the iron ore, it took the german army hours to take over denmark with their new tactics blitzkrieg -
invasion of netherlands
One of the purposes of the German invasion of the Netherlands was to lure British and French forces deeper into Belgium as well as possible British invasion in North Holland. -
Invasion of belguim
The Germans invaded the Netherlands and Belgium at the same time. It was the start of German offensive in the West. After a few months of the "Phony War", thought the french -
assault on france
Once they passed belgium quickly, germany troops started invading france ending the phony war. They got a great victory when France's capital of Paris was occupied on 14 June. -
Evacuation
When france was being overwhelmed with german troops, soldier retreated to beach of dunkirk to be rescured. -
Bombing on dunkirk
German Luftwaffe airforce bombed the port of dunkirk making it way harder to evacuate the soldier stuck there -
evacuation completed
the rescue for the soldier stuck on dunkirk was finally completed 340,000 allies troops were rescure and brought to Britain. -
Operation Sea Lion
German started bombing britain sources, such as air fields and aircraft factories. -
bombing of britain
Hitler decided to bomb britain instead of invading it to weaken its defenses he did not know that britain only defense line was the canadians, So instead he bomb targest,For example. Aircraft factories and air fields -
Germanys invading plan for britain got canceled
Hilter finally gave up on invading britain, but british lost about 23,000 civilans during the blitz -
Hitler invading russa ( Operation barbarossa )
largest invasion in the history of warfare. Hitler invaded russia because he was worried, when the russian took oover balkans in 1940. He also need to conquer russia to have all of europe. He started off well, but then soon to lose the war against because because of weather conditions it was to cold for the german army and suffered a lot of men -
Japeanes Bombing
Japanese planes went towards the United States of America and bombed the pearl harbour destroying most of a fleet, Then they went to the Philippines and bombed there. -
Declaring war
After the day of pearl harbour bombing. United States declares war on Japan and japan`s allies axis -
Hong Kong
On Christmas Day hong kong was taken by the japanese all 1975 canadians sent to honk kong were killed or taken as prisoneers, more then half dies in prison camps it was a tragic lost to canadians. -
Canadians in dieppe raid
This was to take over france port Dieppe to start pushing german troops out of france. They had everything figured, but when they were in overseas one small convoy met up with a german convoy and had a mini battle, so germans troops in dieppe heard and had a chance to position them self to defend. When allies troop were in shores of dieppe it was terrible and lost many men. It was a horrible lost. -
Second chance invasion
In mid 1942, germany tried once again to invaded russia but this time they didn`t go as far as before, once again they suffered because of weather conditions and 300,000 casualties -
Russia Fighting back
Russia took advatage of this opportunity so they retook most of territorties they have losted. By 1944 they were advancing into eastern europe to germany. -
Invasion of italy
Candian soldier were going to to italy with allies,conditions in italy were terrible and slowed down ally troops. -
Germany out of Africa
the allies cleared all axis troops from africa. -
Defeat of italy
Italy finally surrender and allies took over rome. -
D - day
it was operation overlord, was a massive invaasion into five beaches at the same time, canadians were deployed in juno beach as the code name about 30,000 troops were at juno beach -
Attack on germany
allies were attacking germany. Canadians job was to liberate netherlands from german troops, it was a hard task for the canadians, dutch people were sarvaing from gemany too. -
Germany Defeated
Germany surrender to ally forces, rather then facing allies hitler and he`s wife eva braun committed sucide in berlin bunker. This was also called VE- day ( Victory in Europe -
NetherLand`s liberation!
The canadian liberated netherlands, the drop food supplies to the dutch people also because of their starvasion problem, it was a great victory. Canadian soldiers we heros
