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#jBy Ciara and Grace
 The countries of Europe spent most of the 1930’s
building towards war. In 1939 the German army
invaded their neighbouring country, Poland. Germany
was led at the time by the Nazi party of Adolf Hitler.
That was the event that led to World War II. The war
soon spread among the rest of Europe.
 Adolf Hitler was the one of the causes of World War
II. Adolf Hitler was born in Germany on the 20th of
April 1889. He invaded Poland in 1939. He then went
on to invade other countries.
 Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who kept a diary for two
years during World War II, while she hid with her
family from the Nazis. They hid in a house behind a
bookcase. Her and her family shared the hideout with
another Jewish family.
 Anne did not survive the war. Anne her mother and
her sister’s died at a concentration camp. They died
from Typhoid. Anne’s father survived this traumatic
time.
 On the first of September, Germany invaded Poland.
As World War II began, Poland became the first
country to experience the German military’ s
blitzkrieg ,or lightning war.
 Hitler next wanted to invade Britain. He first attacked
the British Air Force in order to control the skies over
Britain. Starting in June 1940, the German Luftwaffe
began bombing airfields and other targets. British
fighter pilots attacked the German bombers and
fighters. By the end Germany had lost about 1,700
planes to Britain’s 900. Resulting in Britain winning.
 After conquering the countries on Germany’s borders,
Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union. The attack
began on the 22 June 1941. Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Romania also declared war on the Soviet Union.
Britain and the U. S. promised to aid the Soviet Union.
By December the central group of the German army
was in the suburbs of Moscow. The Germans were
stopped from further advances by the bitterly cold
winter. Hitler decided to attack the city Stalingrad but
it failed.
 Stalingrad was the single greatest battle in world war
II. The soviets defended the city stubbornly. When
winter began they counterattacked, surrounding the
Germans and their Romanian allies. The surrounded
troops surrendered at the end of January 1943.
Germany’s defeat at Stalingrad was the turning point
in its war with the Soviet Union.
 When war broke in Europe in 1939 Japan saw an
opportunity to gain more territory in the Pacific
region. When Japan began to occupy some of these
territories, the United states protested. On the
morning of 7 December Japanese warplanes attacked
the U.S. Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Their bombs and
torpedoes damaged six American ships.
 D-Day took place on 6th of June 1944. The operation
inloved invasion of France, held by Germany by British
and Canadian troops. The Germans had been
expecting an Allied invasion of northern France.
However, it was not clear where it would come.
In the days that followed, more and more Germans
reached Normandy to fight the invasion. Despite this,
the Allies managed to link up all their beaches. By the
time the Allies started a new attack, Operation Cobra,
in July 1944, the German soldiers were exhausted and
beginning to retreat. Some 200,000 Germans were
surrounded and captured.
 After Germany invaded Russia the Winter started to
set in, causing Germany’s war tank’s to freeze. That left
them with no choice but to retreat. This Winter
weather was getting in the way of Adolf Hitler’s plan’s.
 In 1945 the German’s were invaded by the America and
Russia. The German’s had no more weapons and
people started to die. Eventually Adolf Hitler and his
troop the Nazis had to surrender ending World War II
in Europe. It also ended Adolf Hitler’s victory.