WW2

Germany, Italy and Japan.

France, Britain, the Soviet Union, China and the U.S.

Germany invades Poland.

France and Britain declare war on Germany.

Germany attacks France.

France falls.

Germany invades Denmark.

Germans enter Paris.

Germans bomb London

Japan joins the war on the German side.

German bombs destroy British House of Commons.

Hitler breaks promise and invades Russia.

Japanese bomb the US navy in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.

Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.A

The Nazis decide that the Jews shouldn't be considered as humans.

Soviets push back the German army and the U.S. bomb the Japanese navy.

The British drive back the German tanks in North Africa.

A nuclear reaction is created by scientists in Chicago.

The Germans in Russia are defeated.

Jews in Poland attempt to rise against the Nazis.

Jews in Warsaware are wiped out.

Allies capture Palermo in Sicily and head North.

Italy is invaded by Allies and Mussolini is thrown out of power.

The U.S. are heading for Japan, the Soviets have reached Poland and Romania, the British and U.S. allies are heading through Italy.

Allies land in France and head towards Berlin.

Germany launches a flying bomb on London.

Hitler is bombed by his own army. He survives.

The Poles rebel but the Americans refuse to help. The Poles fall.

The U.S. troops arrive on German soil.

Soviets release 5000 prisoners from Auschwitz concentration camp.

Allied air raids flatten Dresden in Germany and destroy everything.

Mussolini is tried and hung.

Allies surround Berlin, Soviets conquer, Hitler kills himself.

German government surrenders and the war in Europe is over.

The U.S. drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

The war is over.

Hitler maintained that all German speaking countries should have the same government. After numerous threats to the Austrian government, Hitler ordered his troops into Austria in March 1938. They were then united, partly by force.

On the 7th December 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. This brought the U.S. into the war with Japan, preceded by Hitler declaring war. The Japanese invaded and over-ran the Philippines, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. They also penetrated Burma and swept into New Guinea and the surrounding islands. They even bombed Australian ports.

• To target certain minorities,
• to create a super race,
• to create a 'villain' and a scapegoat.

6 million Jews dead.