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The Allies(Britain, France and Commonwealth countries including Canada, Australlia and New Zealand) declared war to Germany and Italy
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Germany attacked Denmark and Norway first, after they defeated them, Germany then attacked Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium within weeks.
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The war in North Africa between Axis and Allies, was a struggle for the control of valuable resources and strategic positions. Over the 3 years, neither side won decisive victory
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France surrendered. The rest of the Allies troops escaped to Britain. Britain and the Commonwealth now stood alone against Germany.
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Hitler launched Operation Sea Lion, the plan to invade Britain. They started a massibe boming campaign
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Hitler gave up on his plan to invade Britan and turned his target to U.S.S.R.
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After Germany's defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler began to attack Soviet Union which broke the non-aggression pact.
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United Stated declared the war to Axis and joined Allies which made the tide of the war began to turn to Allies's favor
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A raid that many people concidering as one of the greatest tragedy for Canadian soldiers. It was a total defeat for Allies, but also a learning experience for the wars later on.
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Finally Aliied won the war in North Africa
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Allied forces invaded Sicily. A battle that Canadian soldiers were heavily involved. They fought Italian and German soldiers through 240 km and eventually Italian surrendered.
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After Italian surrendered, German was still fighting with Allied forces, finally they captured Italy. Nearly 6006 Canadian were killed in Italy
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The Allies launched a full-scale invasion of Europe called Operation Overload after their success in Italy. It was the biggest invasion in the history and it was so successful. Allied forces attacked on 5 beaches and Canadian forces was attacking Juno which's one of the beach.
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Canadian forces attacked the Scheldt River in Belgium and achived their gold ater a month, allowing the Allies to bring in supplies for their final advance into Germany.
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The Allies began to invade the Germans' back over the Rhine River and out of the Netherlands. Allies forces won the battle and continue heading north to liberate Holland.
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Germany surrendered to the Allies. Hitler committed suicide in a bunker, The war in Europe was over and the Allies declared May 8 as Victory in Europe Day.
