World War 2 Key Events

3. Invasion of this country started World War 2
4. Which beach were allied soldiers evacuated from in 1940
6. This 1942/3 battle in Russia was a turning point of the war
7. Month in 1945 the formal surrender ceremony by Japan took place
10. First Japanese city the atomic bomb was dropped on
12. The German-occupied port in France the allies failed to retake in August 1942 by an amphibious attack
13. Country that invaded Finland in 1939
16. One of the beaches the US troops landing on in the Battle of Normandy
17. Country that signed the “Pact of Steel” with Germany in 1939
19. Japanese island and site of a fierce battle in 1945

1. By what name is 6 June 1944 known
2. Axis leader who committed suicide on April 30 1945
3. The bombing of this naval base brought the USA into the war
5. Trials of war criminals took place here
8. The conference attended by allied leaders at the end of 1943
9. German bombing of Great Britain
11. The 1938 agreement that allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
14. the German code name for the invasion of Britain
15. Charter issues by FDR and Churchill in 1941
18. Conference at which the postwar settlement of Europe and the war against Japan was discussed