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the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy allowed Nazi Germany to take over part of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler broke assurances in the Treaty of Munich and occupied Czechoslovakia
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Russia and Germany sign non-aggression pact withsecret clauses for the division of Poland
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Britain rearmed secret radar and gave assurances to threatened by the Fuhrer Poland
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Hitler invades Poland
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France and Britain declared war on Germany
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Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, strategic place to break the British naval blockade on Germany.
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Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British
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Hitler launched his lightning war against Holland and Belgium
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Chamberlain gave Churchill his unreserved support.
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evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in the north of France
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Italy entered the war on the side of the Axis powers with hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war.
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Marshall Petain, signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and into German occupation.
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe).
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Pact signed in Berlin, Germany, which set up the Axis Powers
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German and Italian troops attacked Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete.
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Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia
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Japanese attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia.
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Britain and the United States declared war on Japan.
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Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, (right), led by a Japanese officer, walks under a flag of truce to negotiate the capitulation of Allied forces in Singapore,
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American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
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General Alexander was given a hand-written directive from Churchill ordering that his main directive was to be the destruction of the German-Italian army
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A major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. The battle was fought in the winter of 1942–1943 and ended with the surrender of an entire German army. Stalingrad is considered a major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies.
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British and American forces landed in the NW of Africa and assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria. They gradually closed in on the Germans.
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a pitched battle) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel
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British and US forces invaded Sicily.
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The allied troops had won the island of Sicily.
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Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, WinstonChurchill of Great Britain and F D Roosevelt of America. It was to set the direction of World World Two in Europe.
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The British and American forces defeated the Axis forces in North Africa
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New government of Italy surrendered to the British and the USA and agreed to join allies.
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The siege of Leningrad was lifted by the Soviet army.
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British forces with help from guerrilla-fighting Chindits led by Orde Wingate, evicted the Japanese from Burma.
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Battle of the Bulge Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium and is beaten back by the allies
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Allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans.
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the day on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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Paris liberated The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans
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The first V2 flying bombs killed three people in London.
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The U.S. First Army aggressively pursued the disintegrating German troops and on 7 March unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine River at Remagen.
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President Roosevelt died
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The Russians reached Berlin
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Italian partisans captured and executed Mussolini.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bombproof shelter together with his mistress, Eva Braun, who he had, at the last minute, made his wife
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German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies.
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German forces in north west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath
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Hitler’s successor offered an unconditional surrender to the allies
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
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Winston Churchill (Conservative) lost the election to Clement Atlee’s Labour Party (Labor Party).
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.
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Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria.
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Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
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The Japanese surrendered to the allies and ended WW2
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US General accepted Japan’s surrender formally ending WW2.
