WW2

By James MO

  • Nazi Germany Invades Poland

    Nazi's invade Poland, the alleged start of WW2

  • German ‘Blitzkrieg’ overwhelms Holland, Belgium and France

    combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force

  • Evacuation of Dunkirk

    evacuation of more allied soldiers from north france

  • Battle of Britain

    RAF against the Luftwaffe

  • Blitz of Britain

    German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom

  • Allies take Tobruk

    The 6th Australian Division captured Tobruk from the Italians

  • Operation Barbarossa begins

    Invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

    Surprise bombing by the Japanese on Hawaiian ship ports

  • The fall of Singapore

    Japan captured British/Singapore Stronghold

  • The Battle of Midway

    Naval battle in Pacific War

  • First news of Nazi atrocities towards Jews reaches Allies

    Allies find out the news of the holocaust

  • German forces surrender at Stalingrad

    Germany loses to cold Russian winter

  • D-Day landings

    Major naval Allied invasion of Normandy

  • Soviet liberation of Auschwitz

    Soviet army liberates the polish occupied zone of Auschwitz

  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Forces

    USA relentlessly bombed Japan even after the end of the European war