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1939 Hitler invades Poland on
1st September.
Two days later Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany. 1940 Rationing begins in Britain.
The German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms
Belgium, Holland and France.
Churchill becomes Prime Minister
of Britain.
Allied troops are evacuated
from Dunkirk.
British victory in Battle
of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans.
1941 Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa
- the invasion of Russia.
The Blitz continues against
Britain's major cities.
Allies take Tobruk in North
Africa, and resist German attacks.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor,
and the US enters the war.
1942 Germany suffers setbacks
at Stalingrad and El Alamein.
Singapore falls to the Japanese
in February - around 25,000 prisoners taken.
American naval victory at
Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War.
Mass murder of Jewish people
at Auschwitz begins.
1943 Surrender at Stalingrad marks
Germany's first major defeat.
Allied victory in North Africa
enables invasion of Italy to be launched.
Italy surrenders, but Germany
takes over the battle.
British and Indian forces
fight Japanese in Burma.
1944 Allies land at Anzio and
bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
Soviet offensive gathers
pace in Eastern Europe.
D Day: The allied invasion
of France. Paris is liberated in August.
Guam liberated by the US
Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed.
1945 Auschwitz liberated by Soviet
troops.
Russians reach Berlin. Hitler
commits suicide and Germany surrenders on 7th May.
Truman becomes President
of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill.
After atomic bombs are dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14th August..
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