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Anschluss
Hitler invades his home country of Austria and clams he is uniting them contries. -
Treaty of Munich
Hitler, chamberlain, daladier of France, and Mussolini net in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler invades Czechoslovak
Despite assurances given to him by the treaty of Munich, Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country. -
Britain rearms and reassures Poland
Britain began re-arming and a highly secret warning system was installed along the east coast. -
Russia and German sign pact
Hitler and Stalin signed a non-agression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland. -
Hitler invades Poland
Adolf Hitler Invaded Poland -
Britain and France declare war
Britain and France declared war in Germany -
“Phoney war”
The months following Britain’s declaration of war because Britain saw no military action. -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and a Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish Norwegian base from which to break the British a naval blockade on Germany -
Battle of Britain
4 phases
1) bombers attack British ports
2) bombing concentrated in RAF airfields and attacks on shipping continued
3) the Blitz
4) night bombing -
British rout Italians in N. Africa
Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell -
Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his lightning war against Holland and Belgium -
Chamberlain Resigns
Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labor members for a more active prosecution of the war and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government -
Dunkirk
The British commander-in-chief had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited under fire to be taken of the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea worthy vessels. -
Italy enter war on the side of Axis powers
Italy’s motive was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war. -
France signs armistice with Germany
The French signs armistice with Germany taking France which had been devastated out of the was and into German occupation -
Tripartite pact
This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan -
Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
German and Italy 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
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with German in 1939. USA offered aid to USSR -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attaches US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
Britain and the US decalred 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 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 arny commanded by Field-Marshall Rommel together with all its supplies and establishments in egypt and Libya -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Russians won thier first victory against Germany -
Allies push into North Africa
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 -
Battle of Alamein
Montegomery attacked German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armoured attack -
Allies invade Sicily
The allied troops invaded Sicily -
Allies take Sicily
The allied troops had won the island of Sicily -
Allies meet at Tehran
Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met to co-ordinate plans for a stimulaneous squeeze in Germany. -
Axis surrender in N. Africa
The British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa -
Italy surrenders
Mussolini has been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and USA troops. -
Leningrad relieved
The siege of Linengrad was lifted by the Soviet Union -
Rome Liberated
It was just now the the allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans -
Japanese evicted from Burma
British forces under German slim with help from gurreilla- fighting Chindits led by Orde Wingate. -
Battle of Bulge
Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium -
D-Day
The allied attacked Germany in Normandy, western France. -
Paris Liberated
The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans -
V2 flying bombs
The first v2 flying bombs killed 3 people in London -
Allies cross the Rhine
The allies crossed the Rhine while Soviet Union forces were approaching Berlin from the west -
Death of Roosevelt
President Roosevelt deid after his sueccessfull terms. -
Russians reach Berlin
The Russians reached Berlin shortly before the US forces. -
Mussolini captures and executed
Italian partisans captured and executed Mussolini -
Hitler commits sucide
Hitler commuted suicide in his bombshelter together with his mistress Eva who at last minuet became his wife -
German forces surrender
German forces in Italy surrender to the Allies -
German forces surrender
German forces in west Germany, Holland, and Denmark surrender. Donitz tried to reach an agreement to surrender but continue to fight without Russia but was denied -
Donitz offers unconditional surrender
Hitlers successor offered unconditional surrender to the Allies -
VE day
Victory in Europe was celebrated -
Churchill loses election
Churchill lost election to clement atlee’s labor party -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped and atomic bomb. -
Russia declares war in Japan
Russia declared war on japan and invaded Manchuria -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The US dropped another bomb because Japanese had still not surrendered -
Japanese Surrender
The Japanese unconditionally surrender to the Allies ending the Second World War -
MacArthur accepts Japans surrender
US general Douglas MacArthur accepted Japans surrender ending the Second World War officially