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Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safe guard supply route of Swedish ore and also to establish a Norwegian base from which to break the British naval blockade on Germany -
German Anschluss
Hitler went ahead with his plans to unify all German-speaking people. He annexed Austria then demanded the liberation of German people in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Neville Chamberlain flew to Germany to attempt a settlement before war broke out. -
Treaty of Munich
Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were not represented at the eeting and realizing that no country would come to their aid were forced to surrender the Sudetenland to Germany. Hitler assured those at the meeting that this was the extent of his ambitions for expansion. Chamberlain returned to England with a piece. -
Russia and Germany sign pact
Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland. -
Hitler invades Poland
Adolf Hitler invaded Poland -
Hitler invades Poland
Adolf Hitler invaded Poland -
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich (Sept 1938), he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country. -
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 serect clauses for the division of Poland -
Britain and France declare war on
Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain broadcast the announcement that the country was at war -
Phoney WAR
The months following Britain's declaration of war are referred to as the phoney war because Britain saw no military action -
Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his blitzkrieg against Holland and Belgium. -
Chamberlain resigns
Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labour members for a more avtive prosecution of the war and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government. -
Dunkirk
The British commander in chief general Gort had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. -
Italy enter war on side of Acis powers
Italy entered the war on the side of the Axis powers. -
France signs armistice with Germany
The French Marshall Petain signed an armistice with Germany taking Francem which had been devastated out of the war and into German occupation -
Battle of Britain
During July Hitler sent his LUftwaffe bombers to attack British ports. HIsaim was also to assess the speed and quality of response by the RAF. -
Tripartite Pact
this pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany italy and japan -
British rout italians in N Africa
Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell -
Italy and Germany atact 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 - Operaion Barbarossa
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. Stalin immediately signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and launched an Eastern front battle that would claim 20 million casualties. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, ttacked the US pacific fleet at Peal Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminar to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia -
Japanese take Singapore
The Japanese captured singapore from the British, taking some 60000 prisoners. -
Battle of Midway
The usa defeated the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. Following this victory, the US navy was able to push the Japanese back. -
Allies in N. Africa
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 commanded by Field-Marshall Rommell together with all its supplies and establishments in Egypt and Libya. -
Battle of EI Alamein
Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armoured attack. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Staingrad. -
Allies push into N Africa
British and American force sun der the command of Germerl Dwight Eisenhower landed in the NW -
Axis surrender N Africa
The British and American forces anaged to defeat the axis forece in tnorth africa -
Allies invade Sicily
British and US forces invaded Sicily -
Allies take Sicily
The allied troopp had won the island of Sicily -
aLLIES MEET AT TEHRAN
stalin roosevelt and churchill met to co ordinate plans for a simultaneous squeeze on germany, -
Leningrad reieved
the siege of leningrad was lifted by the soviet army -
Rome liverra
Althugh italy had surrendered in 9, it was only now that the allies were able to liberate Rome from the germans. -
D-Day
The allies launched an attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France. -
Japanese evicted from Burma
British forces under General slim, with help from guerrilla fighting chindits led by orde wingaete, evicted the japanese from burma. -
paris liverated
the french capital of paris was liverated from the germans. -
Battle of the bulge
Germany launched its final defensive through the ardennes reguib of belgium -
deaty of roosevelt
president roosevelt died. he was secceeded by president truman. -
russians reach berlin
the russians reached berlin shortly before the us forces. -
mussolini captured and executed
italian partisans captured mussolini and executed him. -
hitler commits suiciede
the german leaderadolf hitler committed suicide in his bombproof shelter together with his mistress eva braun who he had at the last minute. -
Aliies cross the rhine
the allies crossed the rhine while soviet force were approaching berlin from the east -
german forces surrenders
german forces in italy sueendered to the allies. -
German forces surrender
german forces in north west germany holland and denmark surrendered to montgomery on lune butg heath. -
Donitz offers nconditional surrender
hitler's successor admiral donitz, offerred an uncnoditional surrender to the allies. -
V.E day
V.E day victory in Europe was celebreated -
churchill loses election
winston churchill lost the election to clement atlee's labour party. The labour party romised sweeping social reforms including nationalisation of the coal and railway -
Atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
the japanese generals refused to surrender. the us dropped an atomic bomb on the island of hiroshima -
russia declares war on japan
russia declared war on japan and invaded japanese ruled manchuria -
Atomic bombdropped on nagasaki
the us drop another one bomb -
Japanese surrender
the japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war -
Macarthur accepts japan's surrender
us general, douglas macarthur accepted japan's surrender thus formally ending the second world war