Timeline

Question 1

June 28th 1919

Answer 1

Germany lose WW1 and sign the Treaty of Versailles, accepting responsibility for the war and promising to pay £6.6 billion in reperations

Question 2

April 1938

Answer 2

Germany unites with austria

Question 3

Sept 30th 1938

Answer 3

Treaty of Munich gives part of czechoslovakia (sudetenland) to Hitler. Chamberlain calls the deal ‘peace in out time’

Question 4

Sept 1st 1939

Answer 4

Hitler invades poland

Question 5

Sept 3rd 1939

Answer 5

Britain and France declare war on Germany.

Question 6

Sept 1939 - May 1940

Answer 6

‘Phoney war’. No military action between Britain and Germany

Question 7

May 26th 1940

Answer 7

Britain and French forces in France forced to return to Britain from Dunkirk. 338,000 men rescued

Question 8

July - Oct 1940

Answer 8

Battle of Britain. Hitler sends the luftwaffe to eliminate

Question 9

Sept 1940 - May 1941

Answer 9

The Blitz. Many British towns heavily bombed by the luftwaffe. Britain also bomb german cities

Question 10

Dec 7th 1941

Answer 10

Japan attacks the USA by bombing pearl harbour in Hawaii. The USA enters the war next day

Question 11

June 6th 1944

Answer 11

D-Day. Allies launch huge attack on germany in Normandy, and take back France

Question 12

April 20th 1945

Answer 12

Hitler commits suicide, realising he has lost the war

Question 13

May 8th 1945

Answer 13

VE day. Germany surrenders, ending the war in europe

Question 14

Aug 1945

Answer 14

After the japanese refuse to surrender, the USA drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan Surrenders