The Second World War

By Beatrice.e

  • The War began

  • Hitler invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Sudden German attack on Holland and Belgium, while German tank corps were heading for Paris

  • Japan overran Hong Kong and Burma and began to threaten Singapore and India

  • Battle of Britain

    The battle saw English and German bombers fighting in then skies over Sussex and Kent. The battle was won by Britain

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler decided to declare war on the Soviet Union to get the oilfields in the Caucasus

  • Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

    President Roosevelt declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on America.

  • Battle of Midway Island

    US fleet sank four Japanese aircraft carriers

  • General Montgomery defeated Rommel at El-Alamein

  • The Allies landed in Sicily

  • Germany's defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad

  • The Allies entered Rome and decided to open a western front in France

  • D-Day

    the greatest amphibious force in history arrived on the beaches of Normandy

  • The end of the war and the beginning of a new age

    there was the explosion of two atomic bombs on the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August.

  • Yalta Conference

    US President, British Prime Minister, Soviet Premier made important decisions about the future progress of the war and the post-war world.

  • Hitler's suicide

  • Fall of Berlin

  • The end of the war in Europe