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Europe 1933-1945
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Adolf Hitler Chancellor
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany -
Italian attack on Abyssinia
Italy invaded Abyssinia. the League of Nations tried to stop Italy through the use of economic sanctions. These did not include a ban on the sale of oil and they failed. After this the League was not taken seriously. -
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Italy invades and conquered Abyssinia
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Invasion of the Rhineland
Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty. -
Schuschnigg visited Hitler
The Austrian leader visited Hitler for crisis talks in Germany -
Munich Conference
Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia -
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The League of Nations did nothing
The League played no part in serious attempts to avoid conflict. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler´s troops invaded Poland so Britain and Poland pledged to defend Poland. -
The war was declared
French and British governments declared war on Germany -
Soviet forces crossed the Polish frontier
They also took control of part of eastern Poland. This was part of the pact between hitler and Stalin. Stalin also moved his troops into the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. -
France and Britain started mining Norwegian waters
They did this to stop the trade in iron ore, but the Germany responded by invading Norway and Denmark. -
German bombed Britain
German bombed military sites, factories and London. The British airforce fought back and the clash of the two airforces became known as the Battle of Britain, as a result of thi battle, Hitler as forced to put off his plans for an invasion of Britain. -
Mussolini and Hitler joined.
Mussolini joined forces with Hitler and went to war against France and Britain. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Stalin was taken completly by surprise. German force penetrated deep inside the Soviet Union capturing key cities. germans were moving in on moscow, at this point the campaign began to go wrong for Hitler. He met with fierce resistance and failed the capture of the city. german troops were not equipped for the freezing Russian winter because hitler thought that the war would be over in three months. -
the end game "The Final Solution"
German leadership decided on a 'Final Solution' to the question of how Jewish people should be treated by the Nazi authorities. Death camps were set up, others were used as slave labour until they died. -
Japanese went to war against the USA
he result of this was that USA joined the war with britain and the USSR to fight Germany, Japan and Italy. -
Japanese forces saized control
Japan take control of much of Eastern Asia and the islands of the Pacific. -
British forces defeated the German army of Africa
This was called the Battle of El Alamein -
British and American forces landed in Italy
Rome was taken in June 1944 but it was until 1945 that the whole of Italy was under British and American control. -
Germans abandoned the siege of Leningrad
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Rome was taken
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France was invaded
This was known as 'D Day' -
Germans were in retreat across the Soviet Union
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British and American forces had reached Paris
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Germans launched a counter-attack
After some early success the German attack was turned back. -
The German forces finally surrendered
But war continued against Japan -
Whole of Italy was under British and American control
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Two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanase cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
merian scientists had been working for some years on the development of a new kins of weapon, the atomic bomb. -
The Second World War was over
The devastation caused by these bombs forced the Japanese government to surrender, and as a consequence the war was over
