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1939 September
Germany invades Poland.
1939 3rd September
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany.
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1939 3rd September
Canada, Australia, France and South Africa also declare war on Germany.
1939 17th September
The Soviet Union invades Poland.
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1940 9th April
Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
1940 10th May
Winston Churchill becomes the new Prime Minister.
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1940 10th May
Germany attacks Western Europe.
1940 12th May
Germany enters France.
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1940 14th May
Holland surrenders to Germany.
1940 14th May
The Home Guard is formed.
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1940 27th May
340,000 French and British troops are evacuated from Dunkirk.
1940 28th May
Belgium surrenders to Germany.
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1940 9th June
Norway surrenders to Germany.
1940 10th June
Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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1940 22nd June
France surrenders to Germany.
1940 10th July
The battle of Britain begins.
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1940 7th September
The London Blitz begins.
1940 13th September
Italy invades British controlled Egypt.
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1940 27th September
Germany, Italy and Japan join forces and sign the Tripartite Pact.
1940 November
Slovakia, Hungary and Romania join with Germany.
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1941 March
Bulgaria joins with Germany.
1941 7th December
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.
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1941 8th December
The United States declares war on Japan.
1941 11th December
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
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1941 11th December
The United States declares war on Germany and Italy.
1942 5th May
The Battle of the Coral Sea between the USA and Japan.
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1942 8th November
British and US troops take back North Africa.
1943 20th April
Jews massacred by the Germans at the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland.
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1943 16th May
The Dam Buster raid.
1944 6th June
British and US troops land in Normandy.
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1944 16th December
The Battle of the Bulge.
1945 12th January
The soviets displaced the German Army from Warsaw,
Krakow and Budapest.
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1945 30th April
Hitler commits suicide.
1945 7th May
Germany surrenders to the West.
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1945 8th May
Britain celebrates VE day.
1945 6th August
The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima by the US.
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1945 2nd September
Japan formally surrenders. World War II is over.