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German Anschluss
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Treaty of Munich
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Britain rearms and reassures Poland
Britain had begun re-arming and a highly secret radar early warning system -
Russia and Germany sign pact
Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland -
'Phoney War'
there was no military action Sept 1939-May 1940 -
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
He marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country -
Hitler invades Poland
invaded Poland -
Britain and France declare war on
declared war on Germany -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore -
British rout Italians in North Africa
Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell -
Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched this blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium -
Chamberlain resigns
He resigned after pressure from Labour members -
Dunkirk
The commander was forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk -
Italy enter war on side of Axis powers
There motive to entering the war was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war -
France signs armistice with Germany
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Battle of Britain
10 July- 31 October 1940 -
Tripartite Pact
This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan -
Itlay and Germany attack Yugoslavia
German field Marshall Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to North Africa -
Hitler attacks Russia-Operation Barbarossa
He sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
They declare war -
Japanese take Singapore
captured from British -
Battle of Midway
The US defeated the Japanese navy -
Allies in North Africa
General Alex was given a hand-written directive -
Allies push into North Africa
British and American forces landed in NW of Africa -
Battle of Stalingrad
Russians won their first victory against Germany -
Battle of El Alamein
Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa -
Allies invade Sicily
British and US forces invaded -
Allies take Sicily
The allied troops had won the island -
Allies meet at Tehran
Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met to co-ordinate plans for a simultaneous squeeze on Germany -
Axis surrender North Africa
British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis powers -
Italy surrenders
Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered -
Leningrad relieved
The siege of Leningrad was lifted by the Soviet army -
Rome liberated
The allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans -
Japanese evicted from Burma
British forces evicted the Japanese from Burma -
Battle of Bulge
Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium -
D-Day
Allies launched an attack on Germany's forces 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 three people in London -
Allies cross the Rhine
The allies crossed the Rhine while Soviet forces were approaching Berlin from the East -
Death of Roosevelt
Died -
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 suicide
He committed suicide in his bombproof shelter with his wife -
German forces surrender
German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies -
German forces surrender
German forces in north west Germany, Holland, and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Health -
Donitz offers unconditional surrender
Hitler's successor, Admiral Donitz, offered an unconditional surrender to the allies -
V.E.
Victory in Europe was celebrated -
Churchill loses election
He lost election to Clement Atlee's Labour Party -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island -
Russia declares war on Japan
Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima -
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