1. World War 2 Causes Conscription Rhineland Anschluss
Munich conference, given Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
USSR
Poland

2. Main Events Of 1939/Early 1940 Blitzkrieg in Poland Phoney War
Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Norway.

3. Operation Dynamo
May 1940 Germans pour troops through Ardennes region into France
British troops trapped in Dunkirk
Hundreds of British ships, boats, yachts rescue 338,000 men.
Significance: Makes it possible for Britain to go on fighting Hitler

4. Northern France now under direct control from Germany
Rest of France (Vichy France) ruled by a French government under German rule.

5. Operation Sealion Aim: German plan to invade Britain
Battle of Britain – Luftwaffe V RAF for control of the skies, RAF win due to radar
The Blitz – the bombing of British cities, gives RAF time to recover and rebuild.
Result: Hitler calls off operation

6. Operation Barbarossa Aim: German plan to invade Russia
German troops advance at first but then halted mainly due to cold weather.
Army Group North – Leningrad (failure)
Army Group Centre – Moscow (forced to retreat)
Army Group South – Stalingrad (defeated)

7. Stalingrad Germans under Paulus Russians under Zhukov
Russians gather 1 million troops and surround the Germans
Russians attack and cut off Paulus
Germans unable to get supplies, men etc.
Significance: First major defeat in Europe and turning point in the war.

8. Pearl Harbour
Americans ban exports of oil and steel to Japan as Japanese had recently conquered parts of China.
Dec 1941 Japanese attacked pearl Harbour
Significance: America declared war on Japan

9. Battle of El Alamein Italians attack British troops in Egypt
Hitler sends troops under Rommel to help Italians
British under Montgomery defeat the Germans
Americans under Eisenhower arrive and force Germans and Italians to surrender and allies begin their invasion of Italy

10. Battle of Midway What: Sea battle between American and Japanese
Result: Americans win
Consequence: Japanese unable to hold onto the islands it had conquered.

11. Operation Overlord/ D Day June 6th 1944
What: The invasion of France by the Allies
Thousands of boats carrying British, American and Canadian troops land at Normandy under Eisenhower
They drove the Germans out of France
By August France was free again

12. Battle of the Bulge
What: German surprise attack on the Ardennes region
Germans did make initial advances
Americans eventually stop them

13. Defeat of Germany
British and Americans bombers flew every night to pour bombs over German cities
By 1945 the Russians were entering Germany from the East , the British, Americans and French from the West
April 30th Hitler shot himself in bunker in Berlin and the war in Europe was over

14. End of War
New American president Harry Truman decided to use atomic bombs to end the war with Japan
Hiroshima – (Little Boy) killed 80,000
Nagasaki – (Fat Man) killed 60,000
Japanese surrendered
World War 2 was over

15. Consequences Over 50 million people died
USA and USSR became known as “superpowers” and their rivalry led to the Cold War
The United Nations was established to keep world peace and prevent another world war
Decolonisation as in India