WW2 dates

1889

hitler born

1921

hitler became leader of the german workers party

1923

hitler attempted a rising in munich

1930

nazis won 107 seats in parliament

1932

nazi party won 230 seats and paul va hindenburg made hitler chancellor

1933

reichstag government building set on fire. enabling act passed.

30th june 1934

night of long knives

1935

nuremberg laws passed

1941

jews had to wear a star of david on their arms

1938

kristallnacht

1936

hitler demilitarized the rhineland

1938

anschluss. joining of austria and germany.

august 1939

hitler signed the nazi soviet non aggression pact

3rd september 1939

britain declared war on germany

june 22nd 1940

france surrendered to germany

13th august 1940

battle of Britain begun

22nd June 1941

operation Barbarossa. USSR joins the allies.

December 6th 1941

russians launched a counterattack

7th December 1941

japan bombed pearl harbour

8th December 1941

F.D.Roosevelt declares war

November 1941

russians launched operation uranus

January 1942

nazi leaders planned the final solution

august 1942 - february 1943

battle of stalingrad

31st january 1943

general Paulus surrenders to the russians after losing two thirds of his army.

may 1943

germans surrendered giving north africa back to the allies.

november 1943

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in iran to discuss how to back the west.

July 1943

allies invade Sicily. fall of Mussolini’s government.

June 6th 1944

d-day

august 23rd 1944

Paris liberated

march 1945

allied troops had crossed the rhine

april 1945

troops had reached berlin

April 30th 1945

hitler committed suicide with wife eva braun

may 7th 1945

nazis surrendered

august 6 & 9 1945

atomic bombs dropped in hiroshima and nagasaki.

august 14th 1945

Japanese surrendered

september 1st 1939

germany invaded poland

april - june 1940

germany invaded denmark, norway, belgium, the netherlands, luxembourg and france.