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Battle of Atlantic commenced
Germany and the allied forces fought there lives in naval warfare for the Atlantic ocean and this fight was called the Battle of Atlantic -
The start of the invasion on Poland
At 4.45 am on 1 September 1939 the German battleship opened fire on the Polish garrison of the Westerplatte Fort,in what was to become the first military engagement of World War Two. Simultaneously, 62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft commenced the invasion of Poland.
The decision of Adolf Hitler to invade Poland was a gamble. the German Army was not yet at full strength and the German economy was still locked into pe -
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The strt of the War that will last another 5 years
France, Britain, New zealand and Austraila declared war on germany, This is 2 days after Germany had unexpectedly attack Poland with a tatic called blitzkreig. -
Warsaw surrender
Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939 -
Poland had no escape
Also on the 27th of September Stalin’s Red Army invaded Poland and cut off any escape route to the east. Stalin then captured 200,000 prisoners. To the Russians, Poland no longer existed. The few Poles in Warsaw asked Hitler for a truce, but they were quickly turned down and bombed into surrender. -
No hope for Poland
By October Hitler was placing laws saying polish had to follow these rules:
.Polish had to serve Germans first in shops and restaurants
.no Poles where allowed to speak to German women
. You must get off the sidewalk when a German is passing
Slowly Poland was getting erased from the world by the Germans and Russians -
The uprising
In the capital of Poland (Warsaw) there was a uprising from a gwhetto and the SS german troops had killed 200,000 polish civilians -
Dunkirk
In May 28th 1940 Birtish, Beligium, French and many other allied countries were trapped at the border of France called Dunkirk. The task called 'Dynamo' was called in to action and 7,669 men on the first day and 17,804 on the second. were saved by 700 little ships which consists of fishboats etc. It was a two day operation due to the fact Germany were expected to push into Dunkirk in 54 hours. -
Battle of Britain Begins
After conquring France Hitlers next task was to capture Britain in a was called ' The Battle Of Britain'. Hitler started to destroy radar stations so we didn;t know when planes were coming. -
The fighting begins
The first set of waves came from the Germans who were easily located by the remainding radar stations. The RAF fought back and the Germans lost 54 plane while we lost 34 planes altogether -
Destrution of ships
Germany started detroying ships in certain areas near Britain. This was to destroy any goods that were entering Britain so we would eventually run out of food. -
Big decision made by Hitler during Battle of Britain
On this date Hitler made athe choice of postponding operation Sealion and targeting cities insted to lower morale. This helped the RAF greatly because they were nearly out of planes. -
Britain start attacking capital
On the 7th of September 1940 Britain attack Berlin in a effort to destroy factories. -
Italy do War in Africa
When Italy entered World War II in June 1940, the war quickly spread to North Africa, where their colony of Libya bordered Britain's Egypt. On 7 September 1940, Marshall Graziani’s troops began a land offensive. Their numerical supremacy won them initial success. They captured the port of Sidi el-Barrini and established a chain of fortified camps. -
RAF inflate truth
During the 18th of September 1940 the RAF said they shot down a staggerin 183 German planes which was later found out to have been inflated by generals. -
Itlay in chaos
The British counterattack, launched in December 1940 and led by General Wavell, quickly flattened the Italians. As British armaments grew daily, Italian supplies dwindled. Italian forces retreated in chaos, and the human tide of surrendering soldiers where come across during the Allied advance, making movement of tanks difficult. With Italian positions crumbling, Hitler, shocked by the Italian failure, dispatched the German Afrika Korps – commanded by the brilliant General Erwin Rommel. -
huge naval loss
In 1941 German U-boats and many other ships had inflicted huge amounts of damage, sinking 875 Allied ships. -
Italy attack with help from Germany
Rommel launched his first blow against the Allies in February 1941, taking the British by surprise and carrying out an audacious triple attack on the Sollum-Halfaya line on the Egyptian border. The Germans captured the key port of Benghazi, moving on to besiege the other major port of Cyrenaica, Tobruk. -
Germany- Italy forced to retreat
In June 1941, Operation Battleaxe, the British attempt to liberate Tobruk, was stopped in its tracks by well-prepared defences.The Allies launched Operation Crusader, catching Rommel’s forces by surprise. Although German 88mm guns wreaked havoc among the British ranks, Axis forces – under the pressure of huge losses and little supplies – were forced to retreat to El Agheila -
Germany attack Russia
Gemany attack Russia with the tatic of 'blitzkreig'. In total, Germany amassed 117 army divisions for the attack excluding Rumanian and Hungarian units. However in total, Russia amassed 132 army divisions for the defence which easily overpoweered Germany's attack due to conditions as well which played a part (snow). Hitler excuse for attacking Russia was to liberate Europe from Communison. -
A fatal day for the Americans
At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed. Only by luck three US aircraft carriers, usually stationed at Pearl Harbor but assigned elsewhere on the day were saved . The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured. -
Tobruk and Benghazi were back to Britain's hands
Although German 88mm guns wreaked havoc among the British ranks, At the end of 1941, Tobruk was liberated and Benghazi returned to British hands. -
Another upset for the allies
At the beginning of 1942, British supply lines were now overextended, and Rommel counter attacked, forcing the British to retreat to the defensive positions known as the Gazala Line. The Battle of Gazala - one of the fiercest of the Desert War – resulted in the retreat of the Bristish men to Alam Halfa. Tobruk, cut-off once again, this time fell rapidly to Axis forces. -
New general to help allies
Churchill reshuffled the military command, placing Montgomery at the head of the Eighth Army. The battle-hardened general, conscious that the mobile tank battle was Rommel’s forte, unleashed the Battle of El Alamein as a battle of attrition, using his huge advantages in artillery, infantry and supplies. After two weeks of intense fighting, Commonwealth forces had reduced the German tank force to 35, pressuring the remnants of Axis forces into retreat. -
Another Big naval loss for the Allies
In 1942 the balance tilted once again in favour of the Germans. New submarines were entering service quickly, at a rate of 20 per month. Although the US Navy entered the war at the end of 1941, it was unable to prevent the sinking of almost 500 ships between January and June 1942. -
Allies starting to finish the war in Africa
in November 1942 with Operation Torch - the American-led landings in Algiers, Oran and Casablanca. The Allies took possession of the Moroccan and Algerian coasts. The weakened Axis forces were now deafeated -
U-boats losing strength
During February and March of 1943 U-boats were getting more and more dangerous for crew members due to hedgehogs which allies had place. and the U-boats withdrawn from the war and then the allies had won -
End of the war in Africa
In May 1943, more than 230,000 troops surrendered to the Allies in Tunisia, marking the end of the campaign. -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -
Poland were free of Germany
In the month January 1945 Poland were no longer occupied by Germany. Germany first occupied Poland when they captured Warsaw in 1939 -
The Atom bomb
In the quite towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki about 250,000 japanese people had died due to a 2 billion dollar bomb called the atom bomb. This bomb were first made during the manhatten project which was the theorey of Albert Einstein who thought that there could be such a weapon of mass destructive could be made if you change urainium. The project started 1939 September 2nd and was finally used in the Japnese cities on incidcent people. -
6 year battle is over
Battle of Atlantic ended
