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German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Holland, Belgium and France
Quick attack on Belgium and France to defeat them and leave so that the last country they would need to fight would be Britain -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
Operation dynamo, was a plan to save 338 thousand British soldiers from coast Dunkirk. -
Battle of Britain and the 'Blitz' of British cities
Germans were bombing the main British city, it started at the docks though eventually lead to the inner city. -
Operation Barbarossa begins
A massive attack Germany preformed to invade the soviet union however they failed to take out the soviets force, which lead to the turning point of the war. -
The Allies take Tobruk
Australia attack Italy for land -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
Japan surprise attack America by bombing Pearl Harbour to scare America into not joining the war. However, this did not work. -
The fall of Singapore
Japan launched an attack on Singapore which lasted 7 days but ended up with Japan capturing Singapore -
The Battle of Midway
The US army defeated a naval and air attack from the Japanese -
The Allies learn of Nazis horrific crimes against the Jews
The states aided victims of the holocaust, however some argued they could have done a lot more to help them. -
German forces surrender at Stalingrad
Months of fighting eventually lead to the German soldiers surrendering as their army was low. -
D-Day Landings
The Normandy landings was a Allied invasion of Normandy. -
Soviet liberation of Auschwitz
Nazis kill millions of people in concentration camps in Germany -
The States drop a atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Huge atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima, it ended all the fighting and claimed victory