1. World War II Begins By: Sarah Gurley

2. German Resistance  In 1939-  British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy  United States proclaims neutrality  Canada declares war on Germany  Warsaw surrenders to the Nazis

3. War Full Steam Ahead  Nazis and the Soviets divide up Poland  Soviets attack Finland  Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations  Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

4. War Full Steam Ahead  1940-Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands  Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.  Holland and Belgium surrender to the Nazis  Germans bomb Paris  Norway surrenders

5. Britain Fights Back  Italy declares war on Britain and France  Germans enter Paris  German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic  Battle of Britain begins  Air battles and daylight raids over Britain

6. Axis Powers Formed  Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia  Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa  Italians invade Egypt  Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan  German troops enter Romania  Italy invades Greece  Hungary and Romania join the Axis Powers

7. More Captured Countries  Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia  Yugoslavia and Greece surrender  Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy  Allies invade Syria and Lebanon  United States freezes German and Italian assets in America  British occupy Syria

8. War Continues  Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations  United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states  Nazi siege of Leningrad begins  First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

9. Now time for a movie… Sink the Bismark