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German Anschluss with Austria
Hitler went to unify all German-speaking people. Demanaded the liberation of German people. -
Treaty of Munich
Hitler met in Munich and agreed with hitler should have the sudentanland. THe Czechs were not represenated at the meeting and realizing that no country would come to their aid were forced to surrender the sudentaland tio Germany. Hitler assured those are at the meeting place that this was the extent of his ambitions for his expansion. -
Britain rearms and reassures Poland
Britain had begun re arming and a highly secret radar early warning system was installed along the east coast conscription was introduced and assurances were given to Poland, who was being threatened by the Fuhrer. -
Russia and Germany sign pact
hitler and stalin signed a non aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland -
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country -
Hitler invades poland
adolf hitler invaded poland -
Britain and France delcare war on
Britain and france declared war on Germany, chamberlain broadcast the announcement that the country was at war -
Phoney War
the months following Britains declaration of war are referred to as the phoney war because Britain saw no military action (sept 1939-may 1940) -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safeguard and also to establish a norweigan base routes of Swedish ore frothe Bm which to break birtish bounds of the naval block ade on Germny -
british rout italians in north africa
litalian forces in north africa were routed by the british led by general wavell -
Blitzrieg
Hitler launched his lightning war against Holland and blegium Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction both countries were occupied -
Chmberlain resigns
Chamberlain resigned after pressure from labour memebrs for amore active prosecution of the war and Winston churchhill became the new head of the war times government. gaved chamberlain unreserved support -
Dunkirk
british commander in chief. general gort had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk the troops wated under merciless fire to be taken off the beaches a call went out all owners of sea worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk men were rescued among them French who would form the nucles of the free frenh army under a little known general -
Italy enter war on side of Axis powers
Italy entered the war on the side of the axis powers italys motive for entering the war was the hope of rich picking from the spoils of war -
France signs armistice with germany
the French petain signed an armistrice with Germany taking france which had been devasted out of the war into german occupation -
Battle of Britain
there was four phases that during july hitler sent his Luftwaffe bombers to attack british ports then during august the attacks on shipping countined but bombing raids were concerntrated on RAF aircrafts then the blitx from September 7th city of London was heavily bombed hitler hoped to destroy the morale of the biritish people. and night bombing with the failure of daylight bombing raids hitler began a seris of nightly bombing raids on London and other important industirial cities. -
Triparite Pact
this pact of mutual alliance was signed by germany italy and japan -
italy and germany attack yugoslavia
german and italian troops attacked yugoslavia greece and the island of crete german field marshall erwin rommel led the axis powers back to north africa -
hitler attacks russia operation barbarossa
hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into russia. the russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with germany in 1939, stalin immediatly signed a mutual assistance treaty with britain and launahce an eastern front battle that would claim 20 million casualites the usa which had been supplying arms to britain under a lend leaser agreement offered similiar aid to USSR -
Pearl Harbor
the japanese who were already waging war againest the chinese attacked the us pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, hawaii as a preliminary to taking birtish french and dutch colonies to south east asia -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
britain and the untied states declared war on japan -
Japanese take Singapore
the japanese captured singapore from the british taking some 60,000 prisoners -
Battle of Midway
the usa defeated the japanese navy at the battle of midway following this victory the us navy was abel to push the japanese back -
Allies in North Africa
general alexander was given a hand written directvieChruchill ordering that his main directive was to be the destruction of the german italian army commanded by field marshall rommel together with all its supplies and establishmnts in egypt libya as soon as sufficient material had been built up alexander handed the campaign over to general montogomery. -
battle of stalingrad
the russians won their first victory againest germany at the battle of stalingrad -
Allies push into North Africa
british and american forces under the command of gerneal dwight eisenhower landed in the nw of africa and assumed control of french morrococo and algeria they graduulay closed in on the germans. -
Battle of El Alamein
montogomery attacked the german italian army in north africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armoured attack he then proceeded to chase the route enemy some 1500 miles across the desert -
allies invade sicily
british and us forces invaded sicily -
allies takee sicily
the allied troops had won the island of sicily -
italy surrenders
mussonlin had been thrown out of office and the new government of itlay usurrended to the biriths nad th usa they then agreed to join the allies. the germans took control of the italian army freed mussonlini from imprinsonment and set him up as head of puppet government in northern italy this blocked any further allied advnce through italy. -
allies meet at tehran
stalin roosevelt and churchill met to co ordinate plans for simultaneuous squeeze on germany they also discussed post war settle ments churchill mistrusted stalin roosevelt anxious to show that the west wold not stnad againest russia went along with stalins wishes for a second front in france and no diversions further east churchill was over ruled and the fate of post war eastern europe was thus decided . -
Axis surrender North Africa
the british and american forces managed to defeat the axis forces in north africa -
Leinirad relieved
the siege was lifted by the soviet army -
Rome Liberated
although italy had surrended in september it was only now that the allies were able to liberate rome from the germans. -
japanese evicted from burma
british forces under general slim with help from guerilla fighting chindits led by orde wingate evicted the japanese from bruma -
battle of the bulge
germany launched its final defensive throught eh ardennes region of belgium however the ywere beaten back by the allies. -
D-Day
the allies launched an attack on germanys forces normany western france. thousands of transports carried an invasion under the supreme command of general eisnehower to nroamny beachs. the germans who had been fed false information about a landing near calais rushed troops to the area but were unable to prevent the allies from forming a solid bridge head for the allies it was essential to first capture a port -
paris liberated
the french capital of paris was liberated from the germans -
V2 flying bombs
the first v2 flying bombskilled three people in london -
Allies cross the rhine
the allies crossed the rhine while soviet forces were approaching berlin from the east -
death of roosevelt
president roosevelt died, succeed by truman -
russians reach berlin
the russians reached berlin before the us troops -
mussolini captured and executed
italian partisans captured mussolini and executed him -
hitler commits suicide
killed himself in bombproof shelter together with his mistress eva braun who he had at the last minute made his wife. -
German forces surrender
german forces in italy surrendered to the allies -
german forces surrender
german forces in north west germany holland and denmark surrendered to montogeomerty on lunrbuth health, request was refused -
Donitz offers unconditional surrender
hitlers successor admiral donitz offered an unconditional surrender to the allies -
VE day
vicotry in europe was celebrated -
Churchill loses election
lost due to clement atlees labour partty promised sweeping social reforms includning nationalism of the coal and raiolway industries -
atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
japanese gernerals refused to surrender us dropped an atomic bomb -
russia declares war on japan
russia declared war on japan and invaded japanese ruled manchuria -
atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki
the us dropped an atomic bomb on the island of nagasaki as the japanese had not surrendered following hiroshima -
japanese surrender
the japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war -
mac arthurs accepts japans surredner
us general douglas macarthur ACCEPTED JAPANS SURRENDER THUS FORMALLY ENDING THE SECOND world war