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German Anschluss with austria
This was the day that Hitler announced his 'union' with Germany and Austria. He also annexed Austria into Germany. This lead to Chamberlain to fly out to try to stop a war break out before it could happen. -
Treaty with Munich
This was the agreement between Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy. This would allow Germany the annexation of Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia -
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Hitler ignored the treaty and invaded Czechoslovakia and took over the country -
Britain reams and reassures Poland
Britain started arming Poland with an alarming system and helped give reassurance to Poland who was being threatened by the Fuhrer -
Russia and Germany sign a Pact
was a non-aggression pact that German and Russia would not attack each other for the next 10 years. -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler invades Poland -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
Britain and France agree to go to war on Germany -
'Phoney War'
Once Britain declared war on Germany but they saw no action for months -
Hitler invades Denmark/Norway
He invades Denmark and Norway to secure supply routes of Swedish ore -
Phoney war ends
phoney war ends with the start of fighting -
Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched lightning war on Holland and Belgium -
Chamberlain resigns
He resigns from too much pressure from the Labour members and the war itself -
Dunkirk
Gort retreated to the coast of Dunkirk and then was later rescued -
Italy becomes an axis power
Italy joins the axis powers to fight against the allies -
france signs armistice with germany
this took the devastated France into Germany power -
the start of the battle of britain (ends 31 Oct 1940)
during July Hitler bombed Britain ports. he wanted to increase the speed and quality of the RAF
bombing in August lead to more damaged ports
on sept. 7 hitler heavily bombed London to hurt the peoples' morals
when day bombing became not as effective Hitler resorted to night bombing -
tripartite pact
alliance signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan -
British rout italians in N. Africa
the Italian forces in N. Africa are routed by British troops -
Japanese take over Singapore
the Japanese troops take over Singapore, taking 60,000 prisioners -
Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
German and Italian troops invade Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete -
Battle of midway
USA defeated the Japanese navy -
Hitler attacks Russia
They attack Russia by surprise and broke their agreement. US supplied aid to USSR -
Allies in N. Africa
the allies enter into N. Africa to fight of the german troops -
the attack on pearl harbor
Japan attacks the US fleet in Hawii -
Britain and US declare war on japan
Britain and the US come together and declare war on Japan -
Battle of El Alamein
attacked the German troops through bombing them then went in with an armoured attack -
battle of stalingrad
where the russians won their first victory against germany -
allies push into N. Africa
British and Us troops puch into N.Africa -
Axis surrenders N. AFrica
british and american forces defeated the axis powers in N. Africa -
allies invade Sicily
british and american troops invade sicily -
allies take sicily
allied troops won the land of sicily -
Italy surrenders
they surrendered then joined the allies -
allies meet at Tehran
stalin, roosevelt, and chirchill meet to form plans on how to defeat germany -
leningrad relieved
the seige of leningrad wass lifted by the Soviet Army -
rome liberated
allies finally were able to take back rome -
D-day
allies launched an attack on germanys forces in normandy -
japanese evicted from burma
british forces defeated and evicted japanese forces in burma -
paris liberated
paris was liberated from the germans -
V2 flying bombs
the first V2 flying bombs killed people in london -
battle of the bulge
this was germans final defensive attack -
allies cross the Rhine
allies crossed the rhine while soviets approached from the east -
russians reach berlin
the russians reach berlin before the US -
FRD dies
FDR dies, followed by Truman -
Mussolini captured and executed
italian people capture and kill him -
hitler's suicide
hitler kills himself in his bunker along with his mistress -
germany surrenders
german troops surrender in italy -
germany surrenders
germany surrenders in north west germany and in other countries as well -
donitz unconditionally surrenders
hitlers successor offered unconditional surrender to allies -
VE day
victory in europe celebrated -
churchill loses election
lost election to different morals of the Labours -
atomic bomb - hiroshima
dropped atomic bomb that wiped out the whole city of hiroshima -
russia declares war on japan
russia declared war and invaded manchuria -
atomic bomb - nagasaki
atomic bomb #2 dropped on nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands -
japanese surrender
japan unconditionally surrenders to allies -
Mac Arthur accepts japan's surrender
US general accepts the surrender -> ending WWII