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The great depression started with the wall street crash of 1929 as Black Tuesday where the economic crisis went worldwide.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.
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Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction.
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Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labour members for a more active prosecution of the war and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government. Chamberlain gave Churchill his unreserved support.
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The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France.
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
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German forces in north west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath.
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Churchill loses election Winston Churchill lost the election to Clement Attlee’s Labour Party.
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The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15th and officially signed on september 2nd 1945 bringing the war to an end.
