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Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland to spark the second world war, in violation of the treaty of versailles. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
Once Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war. -
Canada joins the war
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Russia invades Poland
Russia, who stroke an alliance with Germany then invaded Poland at Germany's side. -
Russia invades Finland
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Russia-Finland war ends.
this convinces Hitler that the Russian military is ineffective. -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany invades many countries
Germany invaded France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. Also Winston Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister. -
The evacuation at Dunkirk ends.
338,000 troops were rescued. Churchill declares that Britain will never surrender. -
Italy declares war on France and on Britain
Italy takes advantage of France and Britain when things are not well. -
Russia invades more countries
They invade Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. -
British night bombers bomb Berlin
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Hitler changes the Luftwaffe's objective
He changes it from destroying the Royal Air Force to bombing London. This allows the R.A.F to recover and win the battle of Britain. -
Japan joins the 'axis'
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Yugoslavia surrenders.
British forces evacuate Greek mainland to Crete -
British forces in Crete surrender
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Germany invades Russia.
Hitler orders "maximum cruelty" against civilians, which results in fanatic Russian resistance. -
Hitler, eager to occupy the rich Ukraine first
There were orders to stop army group centre's advance to Moscow and to transfer its two tank armies to army groups 'north' and 'south'. This is perhaps Hitler's greatest mistake. The German generals argue in vain against it. -
Hermann Goering orders the S.S. to prepare "the final solution",
The plan to murder the millions of European jews. -
The Japanese attacks Pearl Harbour
The Phillipines, and the US joins the war. -
The Germans fail to defeat Russia
This is marked by their failure to take Moscow, and with the United States joining the war a day later, This date marks the main turning point of world war 2 -
Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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German U-boats begin to sink ships along the US east coast
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US troops begin to arrive in Britain
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The German spring offensive in southern Russia begins
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Stalin forbids further Russian retreats, at any cost.
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The Germans fail to break the encirclement of their army in Stalingrad
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The last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
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Mussolini is replaced and arrested
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Italy surrenders.
The German forces in northern and central Italy occupy it -
Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of western allies forces
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Hitler survives an assassination attempt
This was by senior German officers, and Hitler only had light wounds -
Allied fighters achieve air superiority over Germany
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Finland and Bulgaria surrenders to the Russians
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B-29 bombers begin to bomb Tokyo
They do this from bases in the Mariana islands -
The Russians reach Germany itself at the Oder river
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The Russians liberate the Auschwitz death camp
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V-2 missile attacks end
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German forces encircled in the Ruhr by the Americans
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The super battleship Yamato is sunk
It wason its way to a kamikaze fight in Okinawa -
President Roosevelt dies.
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The Russians begin final advance to Berlin
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American and Russian forces meet
The two countries meet up to take down Hitler -
Mussolini is executed by the Italian resistance.
The allies liberate the Dachau death camp. -
Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin.
Adolf appoints Admiral Doenitz as his successor -
Germany surrenders
The war in Europe ends. -
Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb
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Russia declares war on Japan
A day latre Nagasaki is destroyed by an Atomic Bomb -
Japan surrenders.
japan had enough and didn't have the equipment to fight back, they surrendered, and WWII came to an end.
