Mar 1938

Oct 1938

Mar 1939

1 Sept 1939

Austria forced to
submit to Germany

Germans march into
north-western Czechoslovakia

Germans conquer
Czechoslovakia

Germans invade Poland

Sept 1939

1939

1940

Sept 1940

1940-1941

Britain & France declare
war on Germany

Hitler became ruler of
almost whole of Central
& Western Europe

Britain stood alone

Germany, Italy & Japan
sign treaty of friendship

Germany attack western Soviet Union; Italy conquer Greece & Egypt

7 Dec 1941

1942


1943

Japan raid Pearl Harbour

Germany is defeated in the battle of El Alamein by British troops

Germans driven out of Soviet Union

June 1944

Mar 1945

7 May 1945

Italy fell to the Allies;
D-Day battle - France retaken

Allies & Russians march into Germany

Germany surrenders after
Hitler commits suicide

6th Aug 1945

9th Aug 1945

Atomic bomb first dropped
on Japan's Hiroshima

2nd Atomic Bomb dropped
on Nagasaki; Japan surrenders