WW2

By dteeling23

  • German Anschluss with Austria

    Hitler annexed Austria, liberated the Sudetenland

  • Treaty of Munich

    Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Mussolini met in Munich, said Hitler should have Sudetanland

  • Britain rearms and reassures Poland

    Conscription introduced and Poland reassured

  • Russia and Germany sign pact

    Signed non-aggression pact
  • Period: to

    Phoney war

    Months following declaration, Britain saw no military action.

  • Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

    Hitler ignores treaty and invades and occupies Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invaded Poland

  • Bitain and France declare war

    War declared on Germany

  • Hitler invades Denmark and Norway

    Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway

  • British rout italians in N. Africa

    Italian forces routed by british troops in africa

  • Blitzkrieg

    Hitler launched blitzkrieg war against Holland and Belgium

  • Chamberlain resigns

    Churchill became new leader

  • Dunkirk

    General Gort forced to retreat, men had to wait, 338,000 men were rescued

  • Italy enter war on Axis powers

    Italy entered on axis powers side, wanted the spoils

  • France signs armistice with Germany

    Petain, signed an armistice with Germany.

  • Battle of Britain

    RAF defended the heavy bombing from Hitler

  • Tripartite Pact

    pact of mutual alliance signed by germany, Italy, and japan

  • italy and germany attack yugoslavia

    italy and germany attack yugoslavia

  • hitler attacks russia

    Russia signed mutual assistance act following the attack

  • pearl harbor

    japan bombed pearl harbor

  • britian and US declare war on japan

  • japanese take singapore

    captured Singapore taking 60,000 prisoners

  • battle of midway

    US navy defeated japan at this battle, pushing them back

  • allies in N. Africa

    general alexander given order to destroy german-italian army

  • battle of stalingrad

    Russians first victory against russia

  • allies push into N. Africa

    americans closed in on germany

  • allies invade sicily

  • allies take sicily

  • allies meet at tehran

    discussed post war settlements

  • axis surrender N. Africa

    british and American forces beat axis forces in N. Africa

  • italy surrenders

  • leningrad relieved

    siege lifted by soviet army

  • rome liberated

  • japanese evicted from burma

  • battle of the bulge

    Germanys final defensive, pushed back

  • D-day

    big attack on normandy

  • V2 flying bombs

    first V2 flying bombs kill 3 people

  • Paris liberated

  • allies cross the rhine

    allies cross the rhine while soviets approached berlin from the east

  • death of roosevelt

    succeeded by truman

  • russians reach berlin

  • mussolini captured and executed

    captured by Italian partisans

  • hitler commits suicide

  • german forces surrender

  • german forces surrender

  • donitz offers unconditional surrender

  • V.E. day

    victory in Europe was celebrated

  • churchill loses election

  • atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima

  • russia declares war on japan

    invaded manchuria

  • atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki

  • japanese surrender

    ended the war

  • macarthur accepts japan's surrender

    formally ended war