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Hitler invades Poland
Hitler invades Poland on 1 September. Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later. -
British victory in Battle of Britain ...
British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans. -
Prime minster.
Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain. -
Allies take Tobruk in North Africa??
Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.Image result for Allies take Tobruk in North Africa??
The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War. -
Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa!
Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and..
The US enters the war!! -
Singapore falls to the Japanese in February
- Around 25,000 prisoners taken. In July 1941, when Japanese troops occupied French Indochina, the Japanese telegraphed their intentions to transfer Singapore from the British to its own burgeoning empire. Sure enough, on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack, 24,000 Japanese troops were transported from Indochina to the Malay Peninsula, and Japanese fighter pilots attacked Singapore, killing 61 civilians from the air.
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American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June.
Marks turning point in Pacific War. -
Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins.
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow. -
North Africa + Italy
Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched.
Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle -
D DAYYY
D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August. -
Truman
Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill. -
Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops.
On January 27,1945 the soviet army entered Auschwitz into the prison and liberated more then 7,000 prisioners, most of them were ill and dying. -
Hitler commits suicide!!!!
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. -
After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August.
