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Germany invades Poland
On the 1st of September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. The people involved were the Nazi German soldiers and was run by Hitler. On the 17th of September Russia also invaded Poland. The invasion was complete by the 6th of October where Germany and Russia agreed to split Poland and include each part under their growing empires. This was significant because this invasion is what lead the world into World War 1. -
Britain & France declare war on Germany
The Declaration of war by France and the United Kingdom happened on 3 September 1939, after German forces invaded Poland. Despite the speech being the official announcement of both France and the United Kingdom, the speech was given by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in Westminster, London. On this day in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland. -
Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain on Friday the 10th of May 1940. The same day Germany invaded Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg ending the Phoney War. He was significant because he was right about the Nazis. Many British politicians hoped Hitler was lying about his intentions. Winston never believed it. He declared the British aim was victory at all costs. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was sent to help defend France. -
Italy enters war on side of Axis powers
Italy declares war on Austria- Hungary but not on Germany. Italy signed the treaty of London, committing to enter WWI on the side of the allies on April 26, 1915. Before this signing Italy had declared itself as neutral. -
France signs armistice with Germany
France signs armistice with Germany right after WW1. The armistice is a peace agreement to end the war. Representatives from the Allies and Nazi Germany signed the armistice. It was named after the location were it was actually signed. The historic document was agreed around 5am in a railway carriage, it was in a private train. It came into effect at 11am but then the Treaty of Versailles came into force. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. The battle took place in the United Kingdom and the result was a British victory. It was one of the first major campaigns to be fought only by the air forces. The Battle of Britain marked the first defeat of Hitler's military forces this was also very significant has Hitler didn't expect. -
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion was the code name Nazi Germany gave the for the plan for the invasion of the United Kingdom during the battle of Britain in the second world war. -
Tripartite Pact signed
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin that involved Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu. The Tripartite Pact was directed primarily at the United States. This was significant because this was meant to keep peace so Germany wouldn't invade, but Hitler still did after signing. -
Siege of Tobruk
The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days, it started on the 10th of April and ended on the 27th November 1941. The location of the Siege of Tobruk took place in Tobruk, Libya. The Allied forces and Axis powers were involved in this battle. The results were that the Allied had a victory. The desert were an important battleground in World War 2. It was controlling Africa which would give the Allied forces an advantage because they had a base were they could attack Europe. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which took place during World War II. It took place in Central, North and Eastern Europe. Germany and its Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union with 3,000,000 troops and 3,400 tanks. Soviet forces were unprepared and overrun and the Soviet military had suffered 4.3 million casualties and the Germans had captured many Soviet soldiers The Soviets had so many casualties because they were so unexperienced. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base. This took place in Primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, U.S.
Up until that stage America had not been involved in world war 2.
Japan realised after bombing America they had made a massive mistake "Fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Naval Marshal General Isoroku Yamamoto. -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese navy had brought rage to America. They had killed many of their navy soldiers. The United Congress, a day after the attack had declared the empire of Japan responsible for the attack on Pearl harbor and declared War. President Franklin Roosevelt declared his speech "Day of Infamy speech" that America will be entering World War 2. -
Japan takes Singapore
The Japanese took over Singapore in World War 2. It lasted from 1942 to 1945. Military forces of the Empire of Japan occupied it after defeating the combined British, Indian, Australian, and Malayan garrison in the Battle of Singapore. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway took place from the 4th of June 1942 – 7 June, 1942. The location was Midway Atoll, United States. The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater. The United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots The result was an American victory. It was significant as it was a big turning point in the Pacific war and it was also America making the Japan rethink their decisions on bombing Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
The results were the Soviet had victory and had destruction on the German 6th Army. -
First Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. It was the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. The First Battle of El Alamein had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt.
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Second Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victory and it was the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. The result was an Allied victory. It was significant because it marked the culmination of the North African campaign between British Empire and the German-Italian army -
D-Day Landings
D-Day was the largest sea born invasion in history and was a significant part in World War 2. Over 1060 thousand Allied soldiers crossed the English channel and spread to 5 beaches. They spread over 5 miles of Normandy. The German's knew that the Allies were going to attack but didn't know where from. The United States wanted to take back the western coasts of Europe from Germany. The location: Normandy, France and the result was an Allied victory. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge started on December 12th 1944 - January 25th 1945. The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of WW2. The Allies were going really easy and quite fast through France. Nazi Germany attempt was to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The location was the Ardennes in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany. Many Americans died in this battle 19,276 American solders were killed. -
Mussolini captured and executed
The death of Benito Mussolini took in the final days of World War II and took place in Europe, when he was executed by Italian partisans in the small village in northern Italy. He was the cause of thousands of deaths. Italy thought he had left his country to ruin when he joined with Hitler and stabbed France in the back. He had dreams of empire before Hitler. He was captured once before but no one could save him now. He was hung up by his heels. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler was inside his bunker in Berlin, Germany. Hitler is scared of being captured or taken alive. He is doesn't want the same fate as Mussolini and have that humanisation. The rest of the bunker staff know the closer the Soviets are they closer Hitler is to be commuting suicide. They already knew it was the end. In the afternoon he retried and shoots himself with him as his wife. His staff found him and knew he was going to kill himself. He shot himself in the head. -
German forces surrender
After Hitler committed suicide, the Soviets were approaching Berlin. All the Nazi soldiers and Hitler's staff knew they were defeated. On Sunday afternoon two German officers were wearing normal clothing sat down at the British army head quarters, near Naples and signed the first formal surrender of German forces. It was significant because Germany finally surrendered, they had started WW2 and finally they were defeated. -
V.E. day
Victory in Europe Day and was celebrated on May 8 or May 9, 1945 to mark the end of the war. Victory by the Allies of World War II and Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces.
It's significant because it was the end of World War II in Europe
It was observed all over the world by France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Europe. -
United Nations is born
The United Nations adopted and signed on the 26th of June the United Nations Charter. The charter was signed by delegates from 50 countries as a means of saving future generations from war.
The United Nations was born to stop conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
On August 6th at 8am in the morning American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It's code name was little boy and was the first bomb ever nuclear weapon dropped on humans. It was an attack in World War 2, that no one saw coming. It dropped over 30, 000 feet and drop for 45 seconds. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people and tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Soviet Union declares war on Japan
Soviet foreign minister Molotov informed Japanese ambassador Satō that the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan, and from August 9 would consider itself to be at war. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
America dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan at Nagasaki. It resulted in Japan surrendering. Japan knew they had messed with the wrong country and needed to surrender as too many Japanese people had died. It's significant because Japan surrendered. -
Japanese surrender – End of WWII
Japan formally signed on September 2, bringing World War II to an end. There is a big debate about why Japan surrendered in World War II. Many believe it's because of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States and didn't want to cause anymore damage to their country.
