PHASES OF WORLD WAR II (1939-45)

The Phoney War (9/39-3/40)
Blitzkreig in the West (4/40-6/40)
Britain fights alone (6/40-6/41) [Battle of Britain; the Blitz]
Operation Barbarossa (6/41); preceded by German successes in the Balkans; war with
Russia continues till 5/45.
Japan starts Pacific & Far Eastern war that involves USA (12/41); this continues until
8/45.
The tide turns: Midway 6/42; Alemain 11/42; Stalingrad 2/43
2nd Front starts in the West (D Day 6/44), followed by battle for Normandy and gradual
advance into Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany. Meanwhile Russia destroys Germany
from the East.


OTHER MAIN ASPECTS

The Home Front
Battle of the Atlantic
Campaigns in N Africa, Mediterranean & Italy
Bombing of Germany
The Holocaust, other German war crimes & Japanese war crimes
The dropping of the Atom Bombs (Hiroshima & Nagasaki)

British Prime Ministers: Neville Chamberlain (till 5/40); then Winston Churchill
(5/40-7/45); then Clement Atlee (from 7/45)

US Presidents: Franklin Roosevelt (till 4/45); then Harry Truman (from 4/45)

Dictator of Russia and Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Joseph
Stalin.

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