world war 2

By susan1998

  • September 1st 1939

    Germany invaded Poland without warning sparking the start of World War Two

  • 3 September 1939

    Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station in Australia.

  • 25th March 1942

    In one of the greatest "trading with the enemy" scandals of the war, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announces that William Stamps Farish Sr. has pled "no contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis.

  • 28th March 1942

    Under the new tactical doctrine of area saturation bombing, introduced by Air Vice Marshal Harris, the RAF launches a heavy incendiary attack (234 bombers) against Lübeck on the Baltic that devastates 265 acres of the old city.

  • 26th March 1942

    Churchill tells the conservatives, ‘It now seems very likely that we and our allies cannot lose this war, except through our own fault’.

  • 27th March 1942

    The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz. The Filipino Government arrives in Australia.

  • 7 May 1945

    the German High Command authorised the signing of an unconditional surrender on all fronts: the war in Europe was over.

  • 8–9 May 1945

    The surrender was to take effect at midnight on 8–9 May 1945

  • 14 August 1945

    Japan accepted of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender.