Timeline of WW2

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  • World War 2 Starts

    World War 2 Starts

    The war of world war2 started
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

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    Worl War 2

  • Britain, Australia, New Zealand and France declare war on Germany

    Britain, Australia, New Zealand and France declare war on Germany

    Britain, Australia, New Zealand and France declare war on Germany
  • Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

    Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

    The first attacks by RAF Bomber Command go in against German warships in the Heligoland Bight with 29 Blenheim and Wellington bombers in a daylight raid.
  • United States proclaims its neutrality

    United States proclaims its neutrality

    the united states decided they were going to stay out of the war
  • Canada declares war on Germany

    Canada declares war on Germany

  • Rationing begins in UK

    Rationing begins in UK

    limiting equiptment and supplies

  • Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  • Holland surrenders

  • Belgium surrenders

  • Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler tours Paris

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic

  • The Battle of Britain begins

  • First German air raids on London

  • German Blitz (Blitzkrieg) against Britain begins

  • Italy invades Egypt

  • Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck

  • Operation Barbarossa - Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins

  • Japan makes a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii declaring war on Britain and the United States

  • The United States, led by US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, declares war on the Axis powers