World War Two Chronology
Presenting the major events of each year of
World War II, from the German invasion of Poland
in 1939, the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940,
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941,
Montgomery’s famous victory at El Alamein in
1942...... Now
with Audio!
1939
–
1940 –
1941 –
1942 –
1943 -
1944 –
1945
The
Crossword Panic of May 1944 - updated
The
planning of the D Day landings was almost
complete - what could possibly go wrong?......
The D-Day Mulberry Harbours
The
Allies needed harbours in order to land the
hundreds of thousands of men and millions of
tons of supplies they would need if Operation
Overlord, the code-name given to D-Day, was to
succeed......
Victory
in Europe Day - V-E Day
60 years ago on
May
8th 1945, the Allies celebrated the defeat of
Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's
Reich, formally recognising the end of the
Second World War in Europe....
V-J Day
There was much joy and celebration around the
world when on 15th August 1945 US President
Harry S Truman declared the day as Victory in
Japan Day...
That was the
year that was....1953 In 1953 Queen
Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey,
and Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the
first people to scale the summit of Mount
Everest. A year to remember! But the everyday
life of the ordinary citizen in Britain was, by
the standards of today, quite simple. But it was
all about to change.....
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Fifty years ago,
on 2nd June 1953, the Coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II took place, and the whole
country joined in celebration...
BRITISH COSTUME: FASHION THROUGH THE AGES
Part
4 - 19th century to 1960's: The Victorians,
Edwardians, Roaring Twenties, World War II to
the Swinging Sixties
Living
History Events Diary - Post World War One
More British History
History
of England -
History of
Scotland - History of Wales
