Steps to war - aggression by japan, italy and germany 1931-1939
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World
War II
1939
September 1 -
Germany invades Poland.
World War II begins.
1939
September 3 -
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
1940
April 9 to June 9-
Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.
1940
May 10 to June 22-
Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war,
To take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands,
Belgium, and northern France.
1940
May 30-
Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government.
1940
June 10-
Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.
1940
July 10-
Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last
Until the end of October and are known as the Battle of
Britain.
1940
September 22-
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis
Alliance.
1941
June 22 -
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over
Four million troops.
1941
December 7 -
The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US
Enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
1942
June 4 -
The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
1942
July 10-
The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.
1943
September 3-
Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to
Escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
1944
June 6-
D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push
Back the Germans.
1944
August 25-
Paris is liberated from German control.
1944
December 16-
The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They
Lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.
1945
February 19-
US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they
Capture the island.
1945
April 12-
US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President
Harry Truman.
1945
March 22-
The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River.
1945
April 30-
Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the
War.
1945
May 7-
Germany surrenders to the Allies.
1945
August 6 -
The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city
Is devastated.
1945
August 9-
Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1945
September 2-
Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
UN:Tehran Conference(nov1943):it was agreed that the USSR would anex the baltic State and esatern poland//Yalte conference(feb1945):the big 3-Churchil,Roosvelt,Stalin agreed that Europe would ge politically Rebuilt democratic goverment.//Potsdam conference(july-aug1945)the Heads of goverment agreed that all german annexions in europe would Be revertec.
GUERRA CIVIL:wanted to take madrid and they couldent laiter,they went to the Cantabrian coast and did a battle depues of that, they went to the Mediterranean ag going through there they did a battle caled ebro but It was for nothng because they losed it andwhen they saw they had all Of that including atalunya they went to madrid and Civil War ends in (1 april 1939)
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