| A | B |
|---|
| 10th July to 31st October 1940 | Hitler used his Luftwaffe against the RAF in the Battle of Britain |
| 7th September 1940 to mid May 1941 | The Blitz killed 10,000 people in London |
| January 1940 | Britain introduced rationing of food, petrol other goods |
| 1944 | Germany began to drop it's new V1 bombs |
| July 1941 | Britain allied with the Soviet Union |
| January 1942 | The USA joined Britain, France and the Soviet Union in their war against Germany |
| December 1941 | Japan attacked the US airbase at Pearl Harbour bringing the USA into WW2 |
| June 1941 | Germany invaded the Soviet Union |
| February 1943 | Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union failed |
| September 1940 | Japan, Italy and Germany agreed to support each other |
| February 1945 | British planes dropped 2,600 tons of bombs over the German city of Dresden killing over 50,000 people in 2 nights |
| 6th June 1944 | Operation Overlord was launched, commonly known as D-Day |
| 30th April 1945 | Hitler committed suicide |
| 8th May 1945 | War ended in Europe |
| 1935 | The Nuremberg Laws were passed to persecute Jews |
| November 1938 | Jewish shops, synagogues and business were destroyed in Kristallnacht |
| 6th August 1945 | The USA dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing 80,000 immediately and 40,000 injured. |
| 9th August 1945 | The USA drop a second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki killing 40,000 instantly. Japan surrendered and war in the East ended |
