Second World War

  • Hitler came to power

    Hitler came to power

  • German attack on Jewish properties

  • Poland divided

    Poland divided

    Pact between Germany and USSR to divide up Poland in two
  • Poland occupied

    By German and Russians
  • Russian invasions

    Russians took over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. They invaded Finland too.
  • Germans captured Warsaw

    Germans built a wall round the Jewish districts.
  • Hitler's speech

    About annihilation of Europe's Jews
  • Germans forces occupied Denmark and Norway

  • Germans attack on Holland, Belgium and France

  • Battle of Britain - 12/08 to 30/09

    Mussolini armies invaded Egypt and Greece in September
  • Phoney War

    A period of 5 month pause.
  • Mussolini declared war to Britain

    Mussolini declared war to Britain

  • Tropoli

    Hitler sent Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps to Tropoli. He drove the British out of Libya
  • Hitler invaded Greece

    In this period Americans provided Britain with massive financial aid after the Lend Lease Act
  • Hitler bombed Créte.

    British were forced to evacuate
  • Bismark sinking

    The only German's battleship. It was caused by Britain.
  • Invasion of Russia

    Hitler Lauched an invasion of Russia
  • Roosevelt demanded Japanese withdrawal

    Roosevelt demanded Japanese withdrawal

    and placed an embargo of oil to Japan
  • Britain helped Russia

    It provided convoys carrying supplies. In this month Jews were killed in a Ravine in Ukraine.
  • General Tojo

    General Tojo

    of Japan, became Prime Minister
  • Pearl Harbor attack

    Pearl Harbor attack

    Japan forced USA to enter the war
  • Germany declared war on the USA

    In this month Jews were killed at Chelmo in Poland.
  • Conference in Wannsee (Berlin)

    to discuss the logistics of how to remove Jews.
  • Japanese invasions

    of Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Burna, Dutch East Indies, Philipines, Guam and Weak Island.
  • Midway Island

    Americans drove off a Japanese attack in this Island
  • Germans in Egypt

    Germans were in Egypt approaching El Alamein
  • British lost convoys

    by attack of Germans
  • Americans began to recover the Pacific Islands.

  • Stalingrad

    Germans penetrated this city on the river Volga
  • Germans surrendered in Stalingrad

  • Heavy losses of Britain

    in The Battle of the Atlantic
  • RAF attack on the Ruhr.

    In the Spring of 1943
  • Jews revolt

    Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in revolt. They were killed in a massive way.
  • Expulsion of Axis Forces from USA

  • British and American success

    These countries flew parachute troops in to aid the landings in Sicily. This caused the downfall of Mussolini.
  • Allied troops crossed to Salerno Reggio and Taranto

    on the mainland and captured Naples
  • Britain helped Russia

    Helping convoys were sent.
  • Allied attack

    Allied attack Italian fleet at Taranto and Cope Matapan, sinking the German battleship "Tirpitz"
  • Germans abandoned Leningrad

    Early 1944 Germans had to abandon the siege of Leningrad and to retreat from their position on the west of Moscow.
  • Allied landed a force at Anzio

  • Mid- 1944

    Shortage of raw materials for Italy, Japan and Germany
  • Invasion of Normandy

    Anglo-american invasion of this country which liberted France, Belgium and Holland
  • Operation Overlord

    Called D-Day, invasion of France.
  • July 1944

    • Soviet Forces approaching Warsaw came upon the extermination camp at Majdanek near Lublin.
    • After Germans forces had occupied Hungary , about 400.000 Hungarians Jews were taken to Auschwitz.
  • Germans killed more Jews

    Germans moved 70.000 Jews from Lódz ghetto to Auschwitz and sent them to the gas chamber.
  • British failure

    at Arnhem in Holland
  • Germans broke through the American lines

    and advanced 60 miles causing a huge bulge in the front line.
  • Early 1945

    • Americans launched raids on Japan from bases in the Mariana Islands.
    • Night raid on Dresden.
    • Germany invaded on both fronts
    • Warsaw was liberted.
  • Death of Roosvelt

    In this month Milan was taken by Allies.
  • German surrender

    German surrender

  • Japan armaments reduced

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    Americans dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima
  • End of the War

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