Key dates history

30/1/1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany leading the National Socialist German Workers Party

1919

Paris Peace Conference is held and Treaty of Versailles is signed leaving Germany humiliated

1/9/1939

Germany attacks Poland and German troops cross the border, meaning Brttain and France decalre war

1940

France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands fall to Germany, Dunkirk evacuation

22/6/1941

Beginning of operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the USSR)

7/12/1941

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

19/2/1942

darwin bombing- 250 killed

July-November 1942

the kokoda campaign fought between Australia and Japan in New Guinea

6/6/1944

D-Day landing of Allied troops in Europe

30/4/1945

Hitler commits suicide

8/5/1945

Vicotry day in europe

6+9/8/1945

atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagaosaki

15/8/1945

Victory day in the Pacific

1934

hitler appoints himself fuhreh

1936

invades rhineland

1938

anexxed austria

sept 1938

hitler gets the sudentenpand

1939

invades the rest of czech

sept 1939

germany invades polnad