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The beginnig of the war
Germany invaded Poland -
Declaration of war
The French and British goverment declared war on Germany -
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Phony War
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Soviets take control
Soviet forces took control of part of eastern Poland -
Stop the trade
French and British started minig Norwegian waters to stop the trade in iron ore -
Wiston Churchill
In Britain Wiston Churchill came to power -
months of waiting
After months of waiting Hitler struck west -
Mussolini and Germany
Sensing that war was nearly over, Mussolini joined forces with Germany -
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Bombed military sites
German planes bombed military sites, factories an the capital city, London -
A great turning point
Germany invaded the Soviet Union in an operation know to the German leaders as Barbarossa -
The Holocaust
The German leaderchip decided on a "Final Solution" to the question of how Jewish people should be treated by the Nazi authorities -
Japan get into the war
The japanese went to war against the USA with a surprise attack -
Japan was conquering
Japanese forces seized control of much of Eastern Asia and the islands of the Pacific -
The USSR was attacked
Germans renewed their attack on the USSR -
Battle of Midway
The USA stopped the tide if Japanes conquest at the Battle of Midway Island -
A fierce battle
A fierce battle for the control of the southern city of Stalingrad -
Battle of El Alamein
The German army in north Africa was defeated by British forces at the Battle of El Alamein -
Germany surrendered
The German army surrendered at Stalingrad. The battel was a crucial event -
Germans and Italians out of Africa
The Germans and Italians had been completely driven out of north Africa -
Britain and America in Italy
British and American forces landed in Italy -
Abandoned the Leningrad
Germans abandoned the Leningrad, which had been going on for over two years -
Invasion of France
This was konown as "D Day" -
Rome was taken
Rome was taken -
Paris
The British and American forces had reached Paris -
Invasion of Philippines
The Americans invaded the Philippines -
Counter-attack
The Germans launched a counter attack in the Ardennes area of Belgium -
Power collapsed
German power in Europe finaly collapsed -
Intaly under British and American control
The whole of Italy was under British and American control -
German surrendered
The German forces finally surrendered but the war continued against Japan -
Atomic bombs
Two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaky -
End of war
The devastation caused by these bombs forced the Japanes goverment to surrundered.
