WWll

By LidiaRosePozhidaeva

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Germany and USSR signed a pact

  • Invasion of Poland

    German Battleship opened fire on a Polish Garrison from the sea

  • Britain and France declaired war on Germany

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    Phoney War

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    the battle of the Atlantic

  • Blitzkrieg

    agains Holland and Belgium

  • Dunkirk

    British were evacuated from the beaches back home

  • Italy enters the war

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    Battle of Britain

    1) Luftwaffe
    2)bombing raids on RAF Airfields
    3) London was heavily bombed
    4) Night Bombing

  • Tripartite Pact

    The pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany

  • Greece surrenders to Germany

  • Operation Brevity begins

  • Opperation Barbarossa

    Germany attacked Russia
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    USSR against Germany

  • Germans invade the Ukraine

  • First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Operation Typhoon begins

  • Pearl Harbour

    Japan attacked America

  • Britain and US declare war on Japan

  • Germany launches a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA

  • Japan invades Singapore

  • Surrender of all US forces on Philippines

  • Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps

  • British General Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa

  • Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy

  • Battle of El Alamein

    Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa

  • Operation Torch begins

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Axis surrender N Africa

  • Operation Husky

  • Italy surrenders

    Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and the USA

  • Germans rescue Mussolini who re-establishes a Fascist government

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    Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino

  • Germans surrender in the Crimea

  • D-Day

    The allies launched an attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France
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    German soldiers being fought back towards Germany

  • Operation Dragoon

  • Paris liberated

  • V2 Flying Bombs

    V2 Flying Bombs killed three people in London

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • German forces surrender

  • Victory day in Europe

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Russia declares war on Japan

  • Dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan

  • Japanese surrender

  • WW2 ends