Nazis invade Poland using the

Blitzkrieg

Effect:

France and Britain declare war on Germany, WWII begins.

Britain and France declare war on Germany

Effect: Poland falls and surrenders

Soviets capture Poland, Lithuania and Latvia

Effect: Annexed eastern polish territory

slowed in Finland

Effect: Finland surrenders

Finland surrenders singing the treaty of Moscow

Effect: led to breakdown of Finnish defenses

Hitler captures Denmark

Effect: leading to a period of occupation with varying degrees of cooperation and resistance from the Danish people. 

Hitler plans to invade the Soviet union

Effect: takes Yugoslavia and Greece

Hitler invades the unprepared Soviet union and calls it " operation Barbarossa"

Effect: Marked a major escalation in WWII

most important battle of the entire war, it begins in August 1942

Effect: Nazis capture the city but are surrounded and forced to surrender

Japan invaded china, conquered Beijing and Nanjing

Effect: tens of thousands raped and killed

Japan took french Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laus

Effect: in response the US cut off oil shipments to Japan

Japan attacks pearl harbor

Effect: Congress declares war on Japan

Japan invaded the Philippines in late December

Japan took Dutch east indies

Effect: Led to the collapse of dutch colonial rule

Axis forces captured Tobruk

Effect: captured under the leadership of a German General nicknamed (The desert fox)

British general Bernard Montgomery stopped the axis

Effect: They advance at the battle of El Alamein

Operation Overlord "D-Day" American, British, french and Canadian troops storm the beaches

Effect: The Germans don't know what's coming, Largest land and sea attack in history

Allies had liberated France, Belgium and Luxembourg

Effect: Invasion of Nazis could begin

battle of the bulge-last German offensive

Effect: After the battle Germany retreats

The allies are in Germany and the soviets surround Berlin

Effect: Hitler commits suicide, Berlin falls

Fought The battle of Leyte Gulf

Effect: Japanese navy was badly damaged

American forces captured Iwo Jima

Effect: American troops then took Okinawa in June 1945- Japan suffered many casualties

The U.S had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Effect: 75,000 die

U.S dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Effect: 70,000 people died

Japan has officially surrendered and WWII is over

U.S destroyed Japans naval fleet

Effect: Japan retreated

Battle of Guadalcanal

Effect: U.S. fought to destroy Japanese airbase

Japan has conquered Burma

Effect: Disrupting allied supply lines to china

Battle of the coral sea

Effect: Japan advances

Nazis conquer Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

Affect: Reach french coast

France surrenders

Affect: controlled by Germany until 1944

Germany plans to invade Britain

Affect: begins air attacks

Battle of Britain

Affect: Air war over Britain

Nazis surround the city, attempt to starve the inhabitants

Affect: 1 Million die during the 41-42 winter

Nazis almost succeed but were overwhelmed by the horrible winter

Perhaps the most important battle of the entire war

Affect: Nazis captured the city but are surrounded and forced to surrender in February of 1943