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Treaty of Versailles
A meeting of Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States to determine what happens to Germany as punishment for WW1. In all Germany lost military power, land, and rights. -
German Aggression
Hitler re institutes the draft, militarizes the rhineland, forces union with Austria, claims czechoslovakia and sudentenland. -
Treaty of Munich
Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallknacht
Germans went into the towns and destroyed the Jewish shops and smashed their windows. -
Britain and France Declare War
Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain broadcast the announcement that the country was at war. -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish a Norwegian base from which to break the British naval blockade on Germany -
Dunkirk
The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire by the Germans, to be taken off the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea-worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. -
France signs Armistice with Germany
The French, Marshall Petain, signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and into German occupation. -
Battle of Britain
During July Hitler sent his Luftwaffe bombers to attack British ports. His aim was also to assess the speed and quality of response by the RAF. -
Tensions between Allied Powers and Axis Powers Increase
Allied Powers- Great Britain, The US, Russia
Axis Powers- Germany, Italy, Japan -
Yugoslavia
German and Italian troops attacked Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete. German field Marshall Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to North Africa. -
Operation Barbossa
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad. -
D-day
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the supreme command of general Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches. -
Germany Surrender
German forces in north west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath. Admiral Donitz, whom Hitler had nominated as his successor, tried to reach agreement to surrender to the Western allies but to continue to fight the Russians. His request was refused.
