Dates:

11 November 1918 End of World War 1

1919 Formation of NSDAP
28 June 1919 Signing of Treaty of Versailles
November 1923 Bear hall Putsch
1929 Great Depression
1931 Japan invaded Manchuria, attacked
Shanghai
1932 Japan established independent state
of Manchukuo
1933 Germany withdraws from League of
Nations
Japan withdraws from League of
Nations
December 1934 Italy claimed part of Abyssinia in
East Africa
1935 German rearmament, conscription
4 Year plan
September 1935 League proposed that Abyssinia give
some of its land to Italy
October 1935 Italy invaded Abyssinia
1936 German remilitarization of the
Rhineland
November 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis
July 1937 Japanese forces invade East China
1938 Annexed Austria
May 1938 German claim to German inhabited
Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
29 September 1938 Munich agreement
March 1939 German invasion of Czechoslovakia
April 1939 Italian invasion of Albania
1 September 1939 German invasion of Poland
September 1939- May 1945 The Battle of the Atlantic
September-April 1940 Phoney War
9 April 1940 Invasion of Norway and Denmark
27 May- 4 June Evacuation of Dunkirk
July-October 1940 Battle of Britain
7 September 1940-10 May 1941 The Blitz
1940 Japanese occupation of French
Indochina
September 1940 Italy attacks Egypt
October 1940 Italys initial attack on Greece
4 January 1941 Capture of Bardia in Libya
22 January 1941 Capture of Tobruk
6 February 1941 Capture of Benghazi
5 April 1941- 24 April 1941 Invasion of Greece-Australia pulls out
of Greece
10 April 1941- 1 January 1942 Siege of Tobruk
20 May 1941-30 May 1941 German invasion of Crete
22 June 1941 Operation Barbarossa
7 December 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 1941 Australia declares war on Japan
15 February 1942 The fall of Singapore
4-8 May 1942 The Battle of Coral Sea
31 May- 1 June 1942 Submarine attack on Sydney harbor
3-6 June 1942 The Battle of Midway
July 1942 1st battle of El Alamein
21 July 1942 Japan invades Gona in Papua New
Guinea
August 1942 The battle at Guadalcanal
23 August 1942-2 February 1943 Battle of Stalingrad
August 1942-September 1942 Battle at Milne Bay
23 October-4 November 1942 2nd battle of El Alamein
26-27 November 1942 The Battle of Brisbane
January 1943 End of Australia involvement in North
Africa
23 January 1943 Allied forces defeat Japan in Kokoda
14 May 1943 Sinking of the Centaur
July-August 1943 The Battle of Kursk
5 August 1943 The Cowra breakout
6 June 1944 D-Day
9 May 1945 Germany surrenders
6 August 1945 Little boy dropped on Hiroshima
9 August 1945 Fat man dropped on Nagasaki