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Germany Invades Poland
This event happened on the border of Poland with German controlled terotory . 1.5mill German troops were involved in this. To Hitler this attack would bring living space for German people. This started WWII -
Britain & France declare war on Germany
Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired. -
Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Winson Churchill was called to replace Neville Chamberlin following his resignation Due to Germany invading Poland; His house of comments lost confidence in him. Churchill's goal was to stand agents Germany and never surrender. -
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
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 -
France signs armistice with Germany
When Adolf Hitler received word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, Hitler selected Compiègne Forest as the site for the negotiations. Hitler decided that the signing should take place in the same rail carriage, the Compiègne Wagon, where the Germans had signed the 1918 armistice. -
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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 the German Air Force. -
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. The operation was never carried out during the war as the Germans lost the Battle of Britain. -
Tripartite Pact signed
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Saburō Kurusu and Galeazzo Ciano.The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. -
Italy enters the war on side of Axis powers
This event occurred in Italy (Government). Italy joined Germany and Japan in the war. Italy joined the axis because of territorial expansion and the neutralisation of the Soviet communism. German offed economic aide to Slovakia and military protection and Soviet territory to Rome. -
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Siege of Tobruk
The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. -
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Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa was the critical turning point in world war 2 for its failure forced Nazi Germany a two-front war. The Germans were trying to get to the gates of Moscow. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch east indies and Malaya and enable Japan to conquer southeast Asia without interference. -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
Britain and the US declare war on Japan because of the pearl harbour bombings and taking over Malaysia and Singapore. -
Japan takes Singapore
The Japanese 25th Army invaded from Indochina, moving into northern Malaya and Thailand by an amphibious assault on 8 December 1941. This was virtually simultaneous with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which precipitated the United States entry into the war. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
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First Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied forces of the Eighth Army -
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Second Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. -
D-Day Landings
The United States and allied troops invaded at Normandy. This was the largest air, land, and sea invasion in history. The goal was to surprise Germany, but Germany was ready to fight. It was the beginning of the end of World War II. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. Caught off guard the American fought desperate battles leading to the neutralisation of the German counteroffensives despite heavy casualties. -
Mussolini captured and executed
After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress Benito Mussolini was executed. He would have been tried as a war criminal. Both Mussolini and his wife were killed and hung upside down in public. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol. -
German forces surrender
Germany surrenders bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II. -
V.E. day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to symbolise the end of the war. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The Americans Dropped it on Hiroshima to end the war with Japan as a warning they would destroy their country. (it failed) -
Soviet Union declares war on Japan
Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan three months after Germany's surrender. A massive invasion of Manchuria began the day after the Soviet declaration of war. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Japan Ignored the first one because the damage wasn't significant enough for them to take it was a warning. -
Japanese surrender – End of WWII
There is contentious debate among scholars about why Japan surrendered in World War II. Some believe the declaration was the result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet Union joined the fight so that is one of the reasons why. -
United Nations is born
The united nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old leauge of nations.
