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 conquers 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