GR.10 WW2 (DATES) Flashcards
Hitler becomes Fuhrer
August 1934
Germany annexes Austria. (Anschluss)
march 12, 1938
The Munich Agreement is signed allowing Germany to annex Sudetenland.
September 30 , 1938
Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
August 23, 1939
Nazis invade Poland.
September 1, 1939
Britain and France declared war.
September 3, 1939
Germany begins doing nothing. (Sitzkrieg)
September 3, 1939
Canada joined the war.
September 10, 1939
Russia invades Poland
September 17, 1939
Poland Surrenders.
September 27, 1939
Germany attacks Norway and Denmark. (Blitzkrieg commences)
April 1940
Germany attacks Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
May 1940
Germany attacks France. Churchill replaces Chamberlain as PM of Britain.
May 10, 1940
Germany captures France.
July 13, 1940
Germany attacks Britain. (Battle of Britain)
July 10, 1940
Germany assaults London. (London Blitz)
September 7, 1940
Germany stops assaulting London.
September 15, 1940
Germany invaded the USSR. (Operation Barbarossa)
June 22, 1941
Japan raids Pearl Harbour
December 7, 1941
Japan invades Hong Kong.
December 8, 1941
Dieppe Raid. (Operation Jubilee)
August 19, 1942
The USSR drives Germany out. (Defeat at Stalingrad)
January, 1943
The Allies invade Germany. (D-Day) (Operation Overlord)
June 6, 1944
Germany surrenders and WWII ends in Europe. (VE Day)
May 8, 1945
Japan unconditionally surrenders ending WWII. (VJ Day)
September 2, 1945
