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Olympics in Berlin
The Nazi party held the 1936 Olympics -
Treaty of Munich
Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladder of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed to Hitler the land that he wanted and joined his side -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler goes and invades Poland -
Britain and France declare war on Hitler
Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Tripartite Pact
A pact that made Italy, Germany, and Japan allies (Axis power) -
Hitler attacks Russia
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. Stalin signed a treaty with Britain to help Russia -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attack a U.S military base which is called Pearl Harbor -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
The US joins the fight and declares war on Japan -
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Allies push into N. Africa/ Axis Powers Surrender
British and American forces under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower landed in the NW of Africa and assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria. They gradually closed in on the Germans. -
Italy Surrenders
Italy surrenders to the British and the US. -
D-Day
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the supreme command of general Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches. 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 bridgehead. For the allies it was essential to first capture a port. -
Paris Liberated
French capital was liberated from the Germans -
V2 Flying bombs
The first V2 killed three people -
Japan surrenders
Japan surrenders after the Nagasaki bombing -
Mussolini captured and executed
Italian partisans captured Mussolini and executed him. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler commits suicide weakening the German Nazi party -
Germany surrenders
German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies. -
V.E. day
Victory in Europe was celebrated -
Churchill loses election
Winston Churchill lost the election to Clement Atlee’s Labor Party. The Labor party promised sweeping social reforms including nationalisation of the coal and railway industries and the creation of a welfare state. The Labor party gained 393 seats to the Conservatives 213. It was generally accepted that the landslide victory for Labor was due to the men and women of the armed services who did not want to resume civilian life under the conditions that they had before they entered service.? -
Atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima
US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
