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Hitler went ahead with his plans to unify all German-speaking people
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler invated Poland.
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg aka lightning war against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied.
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Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labour members for a more active prosecution of the war and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government.
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A major part of the German Invation of France.
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The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire, to be taken off the beaches.
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Italy entered the war on the side of the Axis powers
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The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia.
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Britain and the United States declared war on Japan
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The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners
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Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of then New Guinea and unexpectedly began to march over the Owen Stanley Ranges with the intent of capturing Port Moresby.
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The allies launched an attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France.
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German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
