WW2

By 113813@newington.nsw.edu.au

  • Nazi Germany invades Poland

  • attack on pearl harbour

  • evacuation of Dunkirk

  • Battle of Britain and the ‘Blitz’ of British cities

  • German ‘Blitzkrieg’ overwhelms Holland, Belgium and France

  • the Allies take Tobruk

  • Operation Barbarossa begins

  • first news of Nazi atrocities against Jewish people reaches the Allies

  • The Battle of Midway

  • – the fall of Singapore

  • Period: to

    German forces surrender at Stalingrad

  • D-Day Landings

  • the United States drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Soviet liberation of Auschwitz