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Germany invades
Nazi Germany invades Poland WW2 is beginning -
France and Britain
France and great Britain join the war to help Poland out -
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The begin of the war
September the 3rd marks the day that Britain, Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany -
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Germany blitzkriegs
Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France -
Churchill
Winston Churchill becomes the prime minister of Great Britian -
Germany pushes threw
Germany invades Norway & Denmark -
Italy joins the effort
Italy joins the war as a axis power -
Germany begins its attack
Germany starts a swift bombing run on great britian these attaks are known as The battle of britian -
Tripartite act
Italy, Germany, and Japan sign the Triartite act for all them to be on the same side in the war. -
Attack on rusia
Germay and the axis power attack russia with over 4 milion troops -
The bombing
Pearl harbor was bombed by the axis power of Japan -
Us Superior
The Us superior navy defeats japans navy -
The alies advance
the allies advance to take over sicly -
Italy stops
Italy surrenders but mussolini escapes with the help of the germans -
D-Day
D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans. -
Paris is freed
Paris is liberated from German control -
Battle of the bulge
The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army. -
Island Hopping
US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island. -
President dead
US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman. -
The end of Germany
Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war. -
Germany surrenders
Germany surrenders to the Allies. -
Japans end
The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated. -
Japans surrender is closing in
Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. -
Japan gives in war is over
Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.