Phases Of War Flashcards
14 June 1940
France fell to Germans, armistice, Charles de Gaulle fled to England
Through the use of blitzkrieg
Germany conquered Poland, from May 1940, W Europe fell rapidly under German control
1941
- Operation Barbossa
- Tobruk
- Blitz continued
- Pearl Harbour and America enter war
- War goes global
- Germans advanced into Balkans
1942
Germany suffers major defeat at BOEA
6 June 1944
D - Day, Allied invasion of Europe, opened up 2nd front along French Coast
20 July 1944
Assassination attempt on H
4 August 1944
Franks are captured and sent to Auschwitz
25 August 1944
France is liberated
16 December 1944
Battle of the Bulge begins, lines fall back, creating bulge in centre of line
13 February 1945
British planes attack Dresden, phosphorous and high explosives
10 May 1940
Battle of Dunkirk, French and British troops get trapped on the beach
9 March 1945
US B 24 bombers attack Tokyo
28 April 1945
At Lake Como, Mussolini and 12 of his former cabinet officers are executed
29 April 1945
German forces in Italy surrender unconditonally
9 March 1945
US B24 bombers attack Tokyo
28 April 1945
At Lake Como, M and 12 of his former cabinet officers are executed
29 April 1945
German forces in Italy surrender unconditionally
30 April 1945
With Russian shells falling on Britain, Hitler marries his mistress in a bombproof bunker, poisons her and kills himself, his remains are never recovered
7 May 1945
Germany surrenders unconditionally
8 May 1945
VE Day
17 July 1945
US air attacks on Tokyo continues, drop leaflets threatening destruction from the air if they don’t surrender unconditionally
6 August 1945
US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
9 August 1945
Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
10 August 1945
Japanese sue for peace, VJ Day on 14th
