Download World War II ranking and timeline Below are some of the key events

World War II ranking and timeline
Below are some of the key events that took place just before and during World War II. They are all jumbled up.
Cut along the dotted lines.
Decide which events you think are the most significant.
Place them in a pyramid to rank their importance. Be ready to justify your decisions about where you have put them.
Take a photograph of your ranking pyramid.
Using three copies of the timeline template below place the events in chronological order.
Once happy with your order glue down events onto the timeline
Look at when your most significant event took place. Was it at the beginning, middle or end of the war?
Challenges:
a) Research the Internet to add extra key information from research to your timeline.
b) Describe one key event in detail to produce a report or diary extract.
c) Consider how subsequent events may have changed if one event was not to have happened.
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1
September
1939
rd
3 January
1938
th
4 June
1940
th
8 May
1945
th
8 January
1940
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Germany invades Poland.
6 May 1945
British Government fears a Nazi invasion
and promises to give a gas mask to every
British schoolchild.
1 June 1941
The British Army are defeated in France,
they are picked up at French beaches by
100s of little boats at the French port of
Dunkirk.
9 August
1945
Victory in Europe (V.E. Day) – this was
declared a national holiday and street
parties were held all over the country.
15
September
1940
st
th
th
It is a cold winter and ships bringing food to
Britain are being sunk by German
submarines. The Government fears a food
shortage, so rationing is introduced.
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31 March
1939
Germany surrenders – end of War in
Europe.
Clothing is rationed – but not only
because clothes are in short supply. It
was also to set clothing workers free to
work in war factories.
A second atomic bomb is dropped at
Nagasaki. Japan surrenders. This day is
named Victory in Japan; V. J. Day.
The 12 week Battle of Britain’s most
damaging day. German air raids bomb
major cities in Britain for almost a year.
British Prime Minister, Neville
Chamberlain, makes a promise to
Poland: ‘If Germany invades you then
Britain and France will help’
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Germany invades Russia. This was a big
mistake and possibly lost them the War.
Hitler could beat the Russian Army, but he
couldn’t beat the Russian winter.
6th August
1945
The United States drops the first atomic
bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister in
Britain.
3rd
September
1939
At 11.15am Neville Chamberlain makes
his famous broadcast on the radio
stating that Britain was at war with
Germany.
6th June
1944
Britain and her allies invade Europe. This
was known as D-Day or the Normandy
Landings.
8th
September
1943
Italy declares war on their ally,
Germany.
15th March
1933
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party take power
in Germany.
1st February
1940
A ‘blackout’ is ordered in Britain. No
lights to be shown so enemy bombers
can’t see where to drop their bombs.
nd
22 June
1941
th
10 May
1940
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