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Hitler invades Poland
Hitler invades poland which quickly leads to the English and French declaring war 2 days later -
Canada enters World war 2
Canada declares war on Germany a week after the fighting breaks out. Battle at the Atlantic Begins -
bombing at Scapa Flow
the German U-Boats attack scapa flow destroyed one of Britains biggest naval bases and forced Canada to increase the amount of supplies we sent to Britain. -
Hitler invadesFrance,Holland,and belgium
Hitler invades france which forces canada to make a larger contribution to the war effort because Britain lost one of its main allies. -
Dunkirk evacuation ends
Dunkirk evacuation is performed with minimal casualties which leads to Britain saving nearly its entire army from death and letting them continue to fight in the war -
Italy declares war on France and England
Hitler gains an ally for the war in Mussolini, who fought with the allied forces in World War 1 -
France Surrenders
France surrenders to the German superpower. Canada is relied on more to provide Britain with support and troops since they lost their main ally -
Battle of Britain begins
Germany attempts to demoralize britain by bombing civilian towns, yet they are unsucessful -
Britain bombs Berlin
Britain attempts to demoralize germany by bombing berlin... yet much like the germans attempt, it failed -
Japan joins the axis
Japan joins the axis forces which leads to the axis superpower growing in force and numbers -
Hitler calls off invasion of Britain
Hitler stops sending troops to attack britain and focuses his attack on Russia -
Germany begins invasion Russia
Germany breaks the no conflict pact that they had wih the germans and invades russia. This means that the Russians must focus all of their forces to defend themselves. This means that they must rely on the Canadians more to help them win the war -
German attack of Moscow stopped
Germans attack is stopped by the russians after a strong resistance by the russians. A strong counter attack from the Russians pushes the germans back and out of Germany -
attack at pearl harbour
Pearl Harbour was a major american naval base in Hawaii and this leads to the Americans joining the war. This also lead to the canadians being suspicious of the Japanease-Canadians in canada so the government put them in labour camps -
German U-boats begin to sink boats off the coast of America
Canada begins to feel more and more uncomfortable with the war and are worried that there may be fighting on home soil, which is something they have always tried to avoid. -
Battle of Midway
4 Japanease carriers are sunk, Japan loses naval superiority -
landing at dieppe fails
the landing at Dieppe is a massacre. Thousands of Canadians die during the raid and the raid demoralizes everybody. This made the Allies hesitant to attack normandy yet they continued on anyways -
Sicily is occupied by the allies
the capital of Italy is occupied by the allies, this signals the end of alliance between Germany and Italy -
Mussolini arrested and hung
Mussolini is strung up and hung. This ends the Italiens involvement with the axis powers -
D-Day
Allies begin the occupation of France and western europe. This force had thousands of canadians and signalled the turning of the tides in the war -
Paris Liberation
Paris is fully taken back by the allies and freed from the rule of hitler -
Russians liberate Auschwitz
The liberation of the concentration camps begins and the allies begin to understand the true horrors of the war -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler kills himself because he is afraid that he will suffer the same embarrasement that mussolini went through -
Germany surrenders
the Germans surrender which ends the war in europe and ends the Canadian contribution in the war -
Hiroshima nuclear bomb
Hiroshima is decimated by a nuclear bomb attack by the Americans, hundreds of thousands of people die yet the Japanease refuse to surrender -
Nagasaki muclear bomb
Nagasaki is also decimated by the americans. The japanease are demoralized and terrified of more nuclear bombings -
THE WAR ENDS!!!
Japan surrenders which ends the war
