World war ii special 512

Second World War

By Atxafu
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    His Nazi Party, or the Third Reich, takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany.
  • Japan invades China.

    Japan invades China.

  • Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany.

    This is also called the Anschluss.

  • World War II begins.

    Germany invades Poland.

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.

  • Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.

  • Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.

  • Germany takes over much of western Europe

    Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.

  • Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain.

    These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain.

  • Axis Alliance.

    Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.

  • Atack to Russia.

    Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.

  • The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor.

    The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.

  • The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.

  • Italy surrenders to the Allies

    However Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.

  • Normandy invasion

    Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.

  • Paris is liberated from German control.

  • US President Franklin Roosevelt dies.

    He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    He did as he knows Germany has lost the war.

  • Germany surrenders to the Allies.

  • The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

    The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

    The city is devastated.
  • Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

    Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.