World War 2

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    World War II

  • World war 2 started

    World war 2 started

    Germany invaded poland which sparked the second world war
  • Russia invades Finland

    Russia invades Finland

    Russia begins to invade Finland
  • Denmark and Norway are controlled

    Denmark and Norway are controlled

    germany takes over Denmark and norway
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg

    Hitler uses his blietzkrieg plan on holland and belgium forces
  • Chamberlain resigns

    Chamberlain resigns

    Chamberlain resigns
  • operation dynamo

    operation dynamo

    british troops were taken from Dunkirk by any seaworthy ship, most of which were civilion
  • Italy

    Italy

    Italy joins the war on the side of the axis powers
  • Japan joins the war

    Japan joins the war

    Lapan joins the war on the side of the axis powers
  • Athens

    Athens

    German soldiers are now in Athen
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    Four million German troops crossed the russian border
  • Pearl harbor

    Pearl harbor

    pearl was attaked on dec 7 1941 by the japanese
  • Britain and US declare war on Japan

    Britain and US declare war on Japan

    Britain and the us declare war on japan
  • Japanese take Singapore

    Japanese take Singapore

    the Japanese take over singapore from the british
  • Nazi concentration camps

    Nazi concentration camps

    The Nazis begin to mureder jews on a very large scale
  • Battle of midway

    Battle of midway

    Japanese and americans fought in the pacific for four days and it helped america to regain control of the pacific ocean
  • France starting to be controled by germans

    France starting to be controled by germans

    germans started to take control of France
  • Stalingrad surrender

    Stalingrad surrender

    the German foces in stalingrad surrender
  • Allies take Sicily

    Allies take Sicily

    the allies take total control of Sicily
  • Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders
  • Rome liberated

    Rome liberated

    the allies kicked the germans out of rome
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    us troops marched into france from normandy beach
  • Liberation of Majdanek

    Liberation of Majdanek

    The allies liberated Majdanek
  • Paris liberated

    Paris liberated

    the allies took control over paris
  • Capture of Aachen

    Capture of Aachen

    first German town captured
  • Battle of the bulge ends

    Battle of the bulge ends

    the Bulge battle comes to an end and the Germans took heavy losses
  • Death of Roosevelt

    Death of Roosevelt

    President Roosevelt died
  • Mussolini

    Mussolini

    Mussolini is killed by the italian resistance
  • German surrender

    German surrender

    Germany surrenders
  • End of Italian campaign

    End of Italian campaign

    Italians leave the war
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bombs are dropped on the two cities making japan surrender