Timeline+gabe+bloomfield

Timeline of WWII
 * 1939**
 * Hitler invades Poland on 1 September. Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later.
 * 1940**
 * Rationing starts in the UK.
 * German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France.
 * Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
 * British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Dunkirk.
 * British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans.
 * 1941**
 * Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia.
 * The Blitz continues against Britain's major cities.
 * Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.
 * Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war.
 * 1942**
 * Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein.
 * Singapore falls to the Japanese in February - around 25,000 prisoners taken.
 * American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War.
 * Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins.
 * 1943**
 * Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat.
 * Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched.
 * Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle.
 * British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma.
 * 1944**
 * Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
 * Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe.
 * D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August.
 * Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed.
 * 1945**
 * Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops.
 * Russians reach Berlin: Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on 7 May.
 * Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill.
 * After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August.