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Hitler Threatened to Invade Czechoslovakia
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March 1939 Hiterlet invades Czechoslovakia Despite the assurances of the Treaty of Munich, Hitler still invaded Czechoslovakia and sucessfully occupied the country
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1st September is an official guideline for the start of the Second World War
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Auschwitz was regarded as the most effective concentration camp. In September 1939, the town of Oswiecim and its surrounding areas in Poland joined to become Auschwitz.
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Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on the radio
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The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia. Australia didnt really have anything to do with Pear Harbour so what we did when it was happening, was really nothing and just carried on with life.
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Japan bombed Darwin.
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Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany has commited suicide
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German forces in north west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath. Admiral Donitz, whom Hitler had nominated as his successor, tried to reach agreement to surrender to the Western allies but to continue to fight the Russians. His request was refused.
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender, the US dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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As the Japanese generals still would not surrender after Hiroshima, the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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The japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allied forces Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945
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General Mcarthur accepts the Japanese surrender
